Webster Edgerly

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. (Albert) Webster Edgerly (1852 - 1926) was a 19th- and 20th-century American social reform activist. He believed in euthanasia programs, a healthy diet, and the power of personal magnetism, and began the Ralstonism movement as a way to live out this lifestyle.Born in Massachusetts to Rhoda Lucinda Stone and John Foss Edgerly, he graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 1876. That same year he founded the Ralston Health Club. He married Edna Reed Boyts on July 5, 1892 in McConnellsville, Pennsylvania. He practiced law in Boston, Kansas, and Washington D.C. In 1896 he began living eight months of the year at Ralston Heights, New Jersey, now known as Hopewell.