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BIOGRAPHIES
A Standard History
of
Erie County, Ohio
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular
Attention
to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial,
Civic and Social Development. A Chronicle of the People, with Family
Lineage and Memoirs.
By
HEWSON L. PEEKE
Assisted by the Board of Advisory Editors
Volume I.
ILLUSTRATED
The Lewis Publishing Company
Chicago and New York
1916
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FREDERICK A. ELDREDGE,
M. D.
Now retired from the active cares and
responsibilities of a medical profession, which he
followed for many years and ot which he brought high
talents, Dr. Eldredge has lived at Berlin Heights
more than thirty-five years. He represents one of
the oldest families in New England, and in the
profession of medicine followed in the footsteps of both
his father and grandfather. Doctor
Eldredge was an army surgeon in the Union army
during the Civil war.
He was born in Pembroke, New Hampshire, Sept. 28, 1837.
His first American ancestor was William Eldredge,
who came from England with a brother in 1835. In
the Massachusetts colony he was bound out as an
apprentice for seven years, and subsequently became a
prominent land owner at Chatham, and so far as the
records go it is probable that he died there. His
descendants many of them located and lived on Cape Code,
and also spread over into the State of Connecticut.
The doctor's grandfather, Mr. Michael Eldredge,
was born in Connecticut in 1765. He spent three
years as a student of medicine under his uncle
Hezekiah Eldredge at Newton, Massachusetts, and
received a license to practice in Eldredge at Newton,
Massachusetts, and received a license to practice in
1797. Many years later he obtained his diploma
from a regular medical school in 1824. He was in
practice for many years at Princeton, Massachusetts,
where he married Sallie Butrick. She was a
niece of Maj. John Butrick, who in the annals of
the Revolutionary war is distinguished as having opened
the fight against the British Regulars in the Battle of
Concord. Dr. Michael Eldredge, subsequently
removed to Nashua, New Hampshire, and practiced there
until his death at the age of seventy-three in 1848.
His widow died in 1866 in Lowell, Massachusetts.
In religion they were members in the Congregational
Church.
Dr. Hezekiah Eldredge, father of Dr.
Frederick A., was the oldest of thirteen children,
and was born in Princeton, Massachusetts, in 1798.
He studied medicine under the direction of his father,
and subsequently took a course of lectures at Pittsfield
and graduated M. D. in 1824 from Brown University.
That was the same year that his father secured his
medical diploma at Boston. Dr. Hezekiah
Eldredge began the practice of medicine at
Dunstable, Massachusetts, and in that city met and
married Sarah Bennett, a granddaughter of
Capt. John Bennett, who served with distinction in
the Revolutionary war. After the birth of two
sons, Doctor Eldredge moved to Pembroke, New
Hampshire, and in 1840 took his family to Amesbury,
Massachusetts. In 1847 he moved to Milford, New
Hampshire, and practiced there until his death in 1870.
His first wife died at Amesbury, Massachusetts, in 1846.
She was born in 1800. At Amesbury he also married
his second wife, Louisa Cushing Eastman, who
survived him and died at Amherst in 1895, without
surviving children. Dr. Frederick A. Eldredge
was one of three sons. One brother, Lucious,
died in 1871 unmarried at Milford, New Hampshire, and
the younger brother, Erastus Darwin died in 1866
at Toledo, where he was a merchant, and still unmarried.
Dr. Frederick A. Eldredge grew up with such
associations and tendencies toward the medical
profession that he made it the calling of his choice
before he reached his majority. He studied under
the direction of his father, and had not yet qualified
for practice when, in September, 1863, he enlisted in
the Fifty Regiment of Infantry of the New Hampshire
troops as a private. A few weeks later he was made
assistant hospital steward and subsequently was
commissioned hospital surgeon of the First New Hampshire
Cavalry. His commission is dated in July, 1864.
He served in that capacity until finally mustered out in
July, 1865.
Doctor Eldredge remained in New Hampshire until
the spring of 1866, and then moved to Toledo where he
took over the management of the fish business which had
been conducted by his brother. He continued to be
occupied with this work until 1878, and then moved to
Berlin Heights in Erie County. Here he established
and built up a very large practice as a physician and
has an enviable reputation in his profession which still
belongs to him, although several years ago he retired
from active practice. He is still an active member
of the Cleveland Medical Society.
Doctor Eldredge comes of a family that in
politics has been identified since the establishment of
the government with the old federal principles and
subsequently with those held and maintained by the whigs
and the republicans. He served one term as mayor
of his village, and for more than a quarter of a century
was commander of the George M. Fowler Post of the
grand Army of the Republic, and is still a member of
that organization.
Doctor Eldredge was married in Toledo, Ohio, to
Miss Regina Crowell who was born in Chatham,
Massachusetts, Feb. 17, 1846. Her family were Cape
Cod people dating back to colonial times. She came
to Toledo in 1864, and died at Berlin Heights, April,
1812. Doctor Eldredge and his wife attended
the Congregational Church at Berlin Heights.
Source: The Standard History of Erie County,
Ohio - Published 1916 - Page 875 |
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