Fred S. Eldredge
Published in The Dorchester Gentlemen’s Driving Club Year Book 1905. Ed. and compiled by Ernest H. Morgan, 86.
Director Fred S. Eldredge was born in 1863 in South Harwich, where he received his education. He came to Boston when he was 18 years old and entered the employ of C. D. Swain & Co., the Roxbury grocers. He began business for himself as a grocer 21 years ago. Mr. Eldredge was always a lover of horses, a good drive and a good judge of horses. He bought and sold horses for a good many years and of later years has trained them for and driven them in races. He was the owner of Silkey, the pacer which made such a phenomenal win at Combination Park a few years ago, and which Mr. Eldredge converted from a trotter, and he has handled the lines and won money in many a hard-fought race. Mr. Eldredge is married and lives on Angell Street, Dorchester. He is pleasant, genial, gentlemanly, and it is doubted if he has an enemy in the club or out of it.