Background
Eldredge was born in Brutus, New New York
Eldredge was born in Brutus, New New York
Weeks after purchasing a farm in Far West, Missouri, he was expelled along with the rest of the Latter Day Saints by Missouri Executive Order 44. On October 7, 1854, he was appointed one of the Presidents of the Seventy, a position he held until his death. In 1856 and 1862 he served in the Utah Territorial Legislature.
He was superintendent of Zions Cooperative Mercantile Institution for several years before his death.
Eldredge practiced plural marriage and fathered 28 children. He died in Salt Lake City of lung trouble.