Editing Doc Edgerton (section)

===Family===
After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Edgerton married Esther May Garrett<ref>[http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2002/edgerton-0313.html "Esther Edgerton, widow of 'Doc' Edgerton and benefactor of the Institute, dies at 98"], ''MIT News'', March 13, 2002</ref> in 1928. She was born in [[Aurora, Nebraska]], on September 8, 1903, and died on March 9, 2002, in [[Charleston, South Carolina]]. She received a bachelor's degree in mathematics, music and education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  A skilled pianist and singer, she attended the [[New England Conservatory of Music]] and taught in public schools in Aurora, Nebraska and [[Boston]].  During their marriage they had three children: Mary Louise (April 21, 1931), William Eugene (8/9/1933), Robert Frank (5/10/1935). His sister, Mary Ellen Edgerton, was the wife of [[L. Welch Pogue]] (1899–2003) a pioneering aviation attorney and Chairman of the old [[Civil Aeronautics Board]]. The technology writer, journalist, and commentator [[David Pogue]] is his great nephew.