Note: This is just one of1,325 family groupings listed onThe Political Graveyard web site.These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption. This specific family group is a subset of themuch largerFour ThousandRelated Politicians group. An individual may be listed with more than one subset. These groupings — even thenames of the groupings,and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,not the choices of any historian or genealogist. | | Bela Edgerton (1787-1874) — ofClintonCounty, N.Y.Born in Franklin,New LondonCounty, Conn.,September28, 1787.Member ofNew Yorkstate assembly from Clinton County, 1827-29.Died in Fort Wayne,AllenCounty, Ind.,September10, 1874 (age86 years, 347days).Burial location unknown.| |  Relatives: Sonof Elisha Edgerton and Eunice (Peck) Edgerton; married to PhebeKetchum; father ofAlfredPeck Edgerton andJosephKetchum Edgerton; first cousin thrice removed ofHarryAndrews Gager; second cousin ofHemanTicknor; second cousin thrice removed ofBenjaminHuntington andFrankHeman Ticknor; third cousin ofElijahAbel andCalvinFillmore; third cousin once removed ofZinaHyde Jr.,MillardFillmore,JohnArnold Rockwell,JohnLeslie Russell andHiramBingham; third cousin twice removed ofMatthewGriswold,JabezHuntington,SamuelHuntington,HenryHuntington,GurdonHuntington,DavidEdgerton,AugustusFrank,LeslieWead Russell,AlonzoMark Leffingwell,CharlesHazen Russell,JohnClarence Keeler,HiramBingham Jr.,AlfredMitchell Bingham andJonathanBrewster Bingham; third cousin thrice removed ofJohnLeffingwell Randolph andClaudiusVictor Pendleton; fourth cousin ofSamuelLathrop,WilliamWoodbridge,HenryMeigs,PhineasLyman Tracy,IsaacBackus,WillardJ. Chapin,AlbertHaller Tracy,MartinOlds,HarrisonBlodget,HenryTitus Backus andThomasWorcester Hyde; fourth cousin once removed ofJedediahHuntington,JamesHillhouse,EbenezerHuntington,RogerGriswold,SamuelH. Huntington,AbelHuntington,ErastusCorning,GideonHotchkiss,AsahelAugustus Hotchkiss,JosephLyman Huntington,IraChandler Backus,HenryMeigs Jr.,JuliusHotchkiss,AlphonsoTaft,JohnForsyth Jr.,GilesWaldo Hotchkiss,BenjaminNicoll Huntington,EdwardFranklin Bingham,StaleyN. Wood,EdgarWeeks,GeorgeGalen Tilden,WalterHarrison Blodget,AlbertLemando Bingham,HenryStark Culver,CharlesEdward Hyde,JohnSedgwick Hyde andEdwardWarden Hyde. | | |  | Political family:Edgertonfamily of New York and Indiana (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). |
| | Alfred Peck Edgerton (1813-1897) — also known asAlfred P. Edgerton — of Hicksville,DefianceCounty, Ohio; Fort Wayne,AllenCounty, Ind.Born in Plattsburgh,ClintonCounty, N.Y.,January11, 1813.Democrat. Member ofOhiostate senate, 1845-46;U.S.Representative from Ohio 5th District, 1851-55; delegate toDemocratic National Convention from Indiana,1864(member,CredentialsCommittee); candidate forLieutenantGovernor of Ohio, 1868; Bourbon Democrat candidate forGovernor ofIndiana, 1872.Died in Hicksville,DefianceCounty, Ohio,May 14,1897 (age84 years, 123days).Interment atLindenwoodCemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.| |  Relatives: SonofBelaEdgerton and Phebe (Ketchum) Edgerton; brother ofJosephKetchum Edgerton; married,February9, 1841, to Charlotte Elizabeth Dixon; second cousin once removedofHemanTicknor; second cousin twice removed ofHarryAndrews Gager; second cousin four times removed ofBenjaminHuntington; third cousin once removed ofElijahAbel andCalvinFillmore; third cousin twice removed ofZinaHyde Jr. andFrankHeman Ticknor; third cousin thrice removed ofMatthewGriswold,JabezHuntington,SamuelHuntington,HenryHuntington andGurdonHuntington; fourth cousin ofMillardFillmore,JohnArnold Rockwell,JohnLeslie Russell andHiramBingham; fourth cousin once removed ofSamuelLathrop,WilliamWoodbridge,HenryMeigs,PhineasLyman Tracy,CharlesRobert Sherman,IsaacBackus,WillardJ. Chapin,AlbertHaller Tracy,MartinOlds,HarrisonBlodget,HenryTitus Backus,DavidEdgerton,AugustusFrank,LeslieWead Russell,ThomasWorcester Hyde,AlonzoMark Leffingwell,CharlesHazen Russell,JohnClarence Keeler,HiramBingham Jr.,AlfredMitchell Bingham andJonathanBrewster Bingham. | | |  | Political family:Edgertonfamily of New York and Indiana (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | ThevillageofEdgerton,Ohio, isnamed forhim. | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Wikipedia article —Find-A-Gravememorial |
| | David Edgerton (1815-1853) — of Galesburg,KnoxCounty, Ill.Born in Moriah,EssexCounty, N.Y.,February2, 1815.Democrat. Postmaster atGalesburg,Ill., 1845-49.Died in Galesburg,KnoxCounty, Ill.,November1, 1853 (age38 years, 272days).Interment atHopeCemetery, Galesburg, Ill.| |  Relatives: Sonof Sarah Mary 'Sally' (Spencer) Edgerton and Jedediah Edgerton;married,January29, 1848, to Abigail Cottle Hurlbut; first cousin twice removedofDavidHough; second cousin once removed ofHowardCurtis Brown; second cousin twice removed ofCurtisPalmer Brown; third cousin once removed ofSamuelTownsend Douglass andSilasHamilton Douglas; third cousin twice removed ofJeremiahMason,BelaEdgerton,CharlesMann Hamilton,ClaudiusVictor Pendleton andHamiltonFish Jr. (1888-1991); third cousin thrice removed ofGeorgeChamplin andHamiltonFish Jr. (1926-1996); fourth cousin ofRobertCoit Jr. andHenryWoolsey Douglas; fourth cousin once removed ofOrvilleHungerford,AlfredPeck Edgerton,JosephKetchum Edgerton,JudsonH. Warner,AlonzoMark Leffingwell,ThomasTheodore Prentis andWilliamBrainard Coit. | | |  | Political family:Edgertonfamily of New York and Indiana (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsoFind-A-Gravememorial |
| | Joseph Ketchum Edgerton (1818-1893) — also known asJoseph K. Edgerton — of Fort Wayne,AllenCounty, Ind.Born in Vergennes,AddisonCounty, Vt.,February16, 1818.Democrat.Lawyer;U.S.Representative from Indiana 10th District, 1863-65.Died in Boston,SuffolkCounty, Mass.,August25, 1893 (age75 years, 190days).Interment atLindenwoodCemetery, Fort Wayne, Ind.| |  Relatives: SonofBelaEdgerton and Phebe (Ketchum) Edgerton; brother ofAlfredPeck Edgerton; second cousin once removed ofHemanTicknor; second cousin twice removed ofHarryAndrews Gager; second cousin four times removed ofBenjaminHuntington; third cousin once removed ofElijahAbel andCalvinFillmore; third cousin twice removed ofZinaHyde Jr. andFrankHeman Ticknor; third cousin thrice removed ofMatthewGriswold,JabezHuntington,SamuelHuntington,HenryHuntington andGurdonHuntington; fourth cousin ofMillardFillmore,JohnArnold Rockwell,JohnLeslie Russell andHiramBingham; fourth cousin once removed ofSamuelLathrop,WilliamWoodbridge,HenryMeigs,PhineasLyman Tracy,CharlesRobert Sherman,IsaacBackus,WillardJ. Chapin,AlbertHaller Tracy,MartinOlds,HarrisonBlodget,HenryTitus Backus,DavidEdgerton,AugustusFrank,LeslieWead Russell,ThomasWorcester Hyde,AlonzoMark Leffingwell,CharlesHazen Russell,JohnClarence Keeler,HiramBingham Jr.,AlfredMitchell Bingham andJonathanBrewster Bingham. | | |  | Political family:Edgertonfamily of New York and Indiana (subset of theFourThousand Related Politicians). | | |  | See alsocongressionalbiography —Govtrack.uspage —Find-A-Gravememorial |
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