- WILLIAM M. ELDREDGE belongs to the present generation of
business men of Janesville,
- whose native intelligence, sound common sense, good judgment,
and enlightened public spirit, have done so much toward the upbuilding
and improvement of the city. He was born at Clinton, Oneida
Co., N.Y., Nov. 1, 1848, son of Barnabas B. and Louisa M. (HUTCHINS)
ELDREDGE. The original home of the family was in Wales, whence
emigrated his great-great-grandfather, who settled on the rockgirt
peninsula of Cape Cod. The story of his ancestry is most interesting,
and for its recital in detail the reader is referred to the biographical
sketch of his father, B. B. ELDREDGE, which may be found elsewhere
in this volume.
- Our subject was but a child when his parents made their home
in Janesville, bringing him with
- them. He attended the public schools in that place, and
later for a year the Liberal Institute, at Clinton, Oneida Co.,
N.Y., of which school his father was an alumnus. For some two
years after returning home he was content to hold a clerical
position in various stores. His next experience was as an assistant
to the distinguished civil engineer, Capt. Edward RUGER, with
whom he was associated five of six years. He next studied pharmacy,
to whom the State Board of Pharmacy (in the year of its official
existence) granted certificates on June 1, 1882. For some sixteen
or seventeen years he was identified with the drug business,
but he is now a successful real-estate agent, of quick perception,
flawless memory and unfailing tact.
- Mr. ELDREDGE married Sarah C. PEASE, and has one daughter,
Louise H., wife of John
- BARLASS, of Janesville, Wis. His wife's father, John J.
R. PEASE, married Cornelia M. RUGER. Mrs. ELDREDGE has been
confirmed in the Episcopal Church. In private life Mr. ELDREDGE
is universally popular. Generous and genial, he readily makes
friends, whom he retains through his high sense of moral obligations.
He is a Republican in politics. Socially he is a member of
Janesville Lodge, No. 55, A.F. & A.M.; and of Janesville
Chapter, No. 5, R.A.M. His home is at No. 65 Prospect avenue.
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- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin"
(c) 1901, p. 224.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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