Edgerton, Sidney, 1818-1900

Sidney Edgerton (1818-1900) was an abolitionist and a Republican who served as a U.S. Congressional Representative for the Akron area from 1859 to 1863. He later was chief justice for Idaho (1863-1864) and the first territorial governor in Montana (1865-1866). He then returned to Akron at age forty-seven where he stayed, practicing law for the remainder of his life. Along with his political duties, Edgerton also was husband and father. His wife, Mary Wright Edgerton (1827-1883), came from Tallmadge, Ohio. The Edgertons had nine children: Martha (Mattie), (Mary) Pauline, Idaho, Nina, Wright Prescott, Sidney Carter, Francis, an adopted niece, Lucia and a nephew, Wilbur F. Sanders. Sources disagree as to whether Lucia and Idaho were two different people. Mary Wright Edgerton died at the age of fifty-six, and her husband died seventeen years later at the age of eighty-two.

From the description of Sidney Edgerton papers, 1846-1901. (University of Akron). WorldCat record id: 457243176

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