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Sydney Edgerton arrived in Bannack in September of 1863. Mary, his wife, and their four children: Martha, 13; Wright, 10; Sidney, 7; and Pauline, 5; made the 2,500 mile journey to the goldfields of Idaho. From the letters written by Mary Edgerton to her family after her arrival in Bannack, it was apparent that she desperately missed her family in Ohio. Lucia Darling, Edgerton's niece, traveled to Bannack with the family and became the first public teacher in Bannack in the late fall of 1863.
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Sydney Edgerton arrived in Bannack in September of 1863. Mary, his wife, and their four children: Martha, 13; Wright, 10; Sidney, 7; and Pauline, 5; made the 2,500 mile journey to the goldfields of Idaho. From the letters written by Mary Edgerton to her family after her arrival in Bannack, it was apparent that she desperately missed her family in Ohio. Lucia Darling, Edgerton's niece, traveled to Bannack with the family and became the first public teacher in Bannack in the late fall of 1863.