From the book History of Walworth County Wisconsin, by Albert Clayton Beckwith, 
publ. 1912 - Page 513
 
STEPHEN R. EDGERTON, son of Sims D. EDGERTON and Harriet BENEDICT, was born at 
Rome, New York, October 24, 1832; his father came in 1846 to Spring Prairie and 
died there in 1873; he owned a farm in sections 13, 14, Lafayette; married, 
first, Olive, daughter of David Tower VAUGHN and Rebecca DENSMORE, December 31, 
1857; she died in 1877; he married, second, Lila B., daughter of Silas PATTEN 
and Charlotte T. SWEET; she died August 13, 1881.  Mr. EDGERTON's name may be 
found in the official lists of his town and of the Agricultural Society.  He 
was well read in the current literature of farm and dairy, and took a ready 
talker's part in convention discussion.  He was elected to the Assembly in 1870 
over Maurice L. AYERS.  He moved to Elkhorn in 1894, and died at his daughter's 
home, Oregon, Wisconsin, April 9, 1901.  A few years before his death he lost 
all his earlier thrift gained by investments in lower Louisiana and on the 
Pacific coast.
 
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