Wedge grew up in Martinez, Mecosta County, Michigan. When he was two years old, his father was killed.Frederick R. ("Kid") Wedge, "From Prize Ring to Harvard: How I Fought My Way From the Lumber Camp to a College Degree", The Milwaukee Sentinel (March 4, 1922):10.One source says it was his mother who died when he was two. See "Remember 'Kid' Wedge?", The Evening State Journal and Lincoln Daily News (Lincoln, NE) (December 10, 1917):7. His mother subsequently married a man who proved to be physically abusive to both her and Wedge. After his mother died when he was 8, making him an orphan, his stepfather abandoned him, and he was sent to live with his father's brother,Frederick R. ("Kid") Wedge, "From Prize Ring to Harvard: How I Fought My Way From the Lumber Camp to a College Degree", The Milwaukee Sentinel (February 20, 1922):18. Isaac Wedge (born December 1856 in French Canada),Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census Census Place: Martinez, Mecosta, Michigan; Roll: 609; Family History Film: 1254609; Page: 460C; Enumeration District: 253; Image: 0004."Fred Wedge Will Become Evangelist", Berkeley Daily Gazette (December 25, 1924):14. a sawmill man, and aunt Alice Hunter (born June 1861 in Michigan), who lived at 137 Eagle Street, Pelican, Wisconsin.Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census. Census Place: Pelican, Oneida, Wisconsin; Roll: T623_1808; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 194.
