Henry Peirce Eldredge, youngest son of Charles Child and Sarah Potter (Peirce) Eldredge, was born in East Greenwich, R. I., March 20, 1844, and died November 21, 1909. He was educated in the public schools and in East Greenwich Academy, but hardly had his school days ended than he donned the Army blue, enlisting in 1862 as a private in Company D, Tenth Regiment, Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry. He was honorably discharged at the expiration of his term of service. When a lad of fifteen he became a grocery clerk in East Greenwich, and after his return from the army he again entered mercantile life as a clerk with the wholesale flour, butter and cheese firm, Whipple, Weeden & Company, of Providence. Later, and until 1870, he was with Barton & Keith, then with Wheaton, Whitford & Company, later, Whitford, Aldrich & Company, and still later, Eldredge & Company, Mr. Eldredge being admitted a partner in 1880. Mr. Eldredge is a Republican in politics and was elected senator, serving from 1897 to 1905. He was a member of King Solomon's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, and highly regarded by the brethren of the order.
Mr. Eldredge married, April 8, 1880, Amie P., daughter of Lucius Gilbert, of New Haven, Conn., they the parents of four sons: Henry Peirce (2), of further mention; Lucius G., born March 11, 1883; Charles C., born April 18, 1888; and James H., a twin with Charles C.
