Cleave’s
Biographical Cyclopædia of
Homœopathic Physicians and Surgeons
By Egbert Cleave
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
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GEORGE ELDRIDGE, of South Bend, Ind., was born at Eden Valley, Erie
county, N. Y., April 6th, 1838. His ancestors were of Scotch birth, and
came to America over two hundred years ago, settled first in
Connecticut, and thence removed to Middlebury, N. Y. Having been brought
up in the country, he was from his earliest youth trained to
agricultural pursuits. His education up to the age of seventeen was
received at the schools in the neighborhood of his home. Thirsting for
knowledge, and desiring to become conversant with the sciences, he, in
1856 -then at the age of eighteen- entered the Wyoming Academy, of
Wyoming, N. Y., and, the following year, Hillsdale College, Mich., where
he remained three years, his study devoted to preparation for the
ministry. On leaving Hillsdale he accepted the position of teacher in
the Union School of Fremont, O.In the fall of 1862,
circumstances led to his relinquishment of his intention respecting the
ministry, and induced the study of medicine. Having given the subject
close attention and faithful investigation, he adopted the Hahnemann
system, and commenced a course of reading under the instruction of Dr.
Bogg, of Owasso, Mich., which was continued in 1864, under E. A. Lodge,
AL D., of Detroit, Mich. During the following winter he attended a
course of medical lectures at the Ann Arbor Medical College, also at the
New York Homœopathic Medical College, where, on February 28th, 1866, he
graduated with high honor.He then removed to
Newcastle, Henry county, Ind., where he became the pioneer of the
Hahnemann system, first introducing to that section of the country a
practice which, in its exceeding efficacy, soon won for him extended
patronage.In 1868, he located at
Mount Vernon, O., where, in 1870, he married Miss Mary Woodbridge, and
shortly after settled at South Bend, Ind.Source
: Cleave’s Biographical Cyclopædia of Homœopathic Physicians and
Surgeons By Egbert Cleave