Editing Doc Edgerton (section)

===Early years===
Edgerton was born in [[Fremont, Nebraska]], on April 6, 1903, the son of Mary Nettie Coe and Frank Eugene Edgerton,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ne/topic/resources/OLLibrary/Nebraskana/pages/nbka0099.htm|title=The Nebraskana Society|website=www.usgennet.org}}</ref><ref>[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgerton/FrankEugene1875.htm Frank Eugene Edgerton/Mary Nettie Coe] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023045320/http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~edgerton/FrankEugene1875.htm |date=October 23, 2012 }} – ''[[rootsweb]]''</ref> a descendant of Samuel Edgerton, the son of Richard Edgerton, one of the founders of [[Norwich, Connecticut]], and Alice Ripley,<ref>http://lcweb4.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2007/20070619018ou/20070619018ou.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118142735/http://lcweb4.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2007/20070619018ou/20070619018ou.pdf |date=January 18, 2021 }} {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref> a great-granddaughter of [[Governor William Bradford]] (1590–1657) of the [[Plymouth Colony]] and a passenger on the [[Mayflower]]. His father was a lawyer, journalist, author and orator and served as the assistant attorney general of Nebraska from 1911 to 1915. Edgerton grew up in [[Aurora, Nebraska]].  He also spent some of his childhood years in Washington, DC, and [[Lincoln, Nebraska]].