Edgett was born in Hillsborough, New Brunswick on March 13, 1838, to Handyside P. and Ruth Edgett.[1] Edgett married Elizabeth Boden Fiske, b. April 19, 1841.[1]
Military service
Edgett joined up with the Twenty-Third Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry early in the American Civil War. He was wounded at the Battle of Cold Harbor. He was mustered out at the end of the war with the rank of captain.[4]
^ abcdefHistorical Collections of the Essex Institute (September 1866), Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Volume VIII, No. 3., Salem, MA: Essex Institute Press, p. 188
^ abSpecial Dispatch to the Globe (March 10, 1917), I. H. EDGETT DEAD IN BEVERLY, Boston, MA: The Boston Daily Globe, p. 14
^Leonard, John William (1914), Woman's Who's Who of America: a Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada 1914-1915, New York, NY: The American Commonwealth Company, p. 269
^Boston Daily Globe (February 1, 1913), CAPT EDGETT RETIRES First Deputy to Secretary of State Served 37 Years, Boston, MA: The Boston Daily Globe, p. 9
^Boston Daily Globe (April 18, 1911), HOUSE RECORDED FOR INCOME TAX Walker Asks Reconsideration--- Senate Adopts 54-Hour Bill. Insane Hospital Inquiry Killed--- Anti-Lorimer Resolution. IMPORTANT EVENTS AT STATE HOUSE YESTERDAY., Boston, MA: The Boston Daily Globe, p. 1
