Charles Eldredge (1784 - 1838)

Born 31 Jul 1784 in Brooklyn, Windham County, Connecticut

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Died 13 Sep 1838 at age 54 in Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Charles Eldredge was born in 1784. He was a son of James Eldredge and Lucy (Gallup) Eldredge.

According to the obituary posted in his online memorial site ^[1], [Dr. Charles Eldredge] studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Hubbard, of Pomfret, Conn., attended medical societies at the University of Pennsylvania, and for one season at Pennsylvania Hospital. He came to East Greenwich, a man of twenty-nine years, strong in physique and mind, and devoted to his profession. He was a disciple of Dr. Rush, the eminent professor of medicine under whom he sat at the university, but he was not a blind follower of any school. He kept in touch with all advance in matters of the medical profession, adopting all that his judgment approved, and rejecting the sensational and untrue. He was a skilled surgeon, called upon in all critical cases for miles around, although it was his pride to avoid rather than to perform heroic operations. He often spoke with pardonable satisfaction of the many limbs he had saved by careful treatment, when amputation seemed the proper treatment. He was one of the original members of the Rhode Island Medical Society, was its president from 1834 to 1837, was an honorary member of the Connecticut Medical Society; and in 1835 received the honorary M. D. from Yale College.

The online memorial site links him to two spouses, Hannah (Child; 1786 - 1819, daughter of Charles and Olive (Hammond) Child ^[2]), and Eleanor (Fry; 1789 - 1875).

Dr. Charles Eldredge passed away 13 Sep 1838. His grave is in Saint Lukes Episcopal Churchyard, East Greenwich, Kent County, Rhode Island, USA.

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1. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #17327711
2. ↑ Connecticut Town Death Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. View with paid subscription: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1063/VBMDUSACT1634_0034-0156/265613

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