Edie Sedgwick

Edith Minturn Edie Sedgwick was an American heiress, socialite, actress, and fashion model. She is best known for being one of Andy Warhols superstars. Sedgwick became known as The Girl of the Year in 1965 after starring in several of Warhols short films in the 1960s. She was dubbed an It Girl, while Vogue magazine also named her a Youthquaker.

Sedgwicks family was long established in Massachusetts history. Her seventhgreat grandfather, Englishborn Robert Sedgwick, was the first Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settling in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1635. Sedgwicks family later originated from Stockbridge, Massachusetts where her greatgreatgreat grandfather Judge Theodore Sedgwick had settled after the American Revolution. Theodore married Pamela Dwight of the New England Dwight family who was the daughter of Abigail Dwight. Ephraim Williams, the founder of Williams College, was Sedgwicks fifthgreat grandfather. Judge Theodore Sedgwick was the first to plead and win a case for the freedom of a black woman, Elizabeth Freeman, under the Massachusetts Bill of Rights that declared all men to be born free and equal. Her greatgreatgreat paternal grandfather, William Ellery, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.

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