Bio: Eldred, Charles F. (1881)
Contact: Janet Schwarze.

Surnames: Eldred, West

----Source: The History of Northern Wisconsin (Marathon County, Wis.) 1881, page 559

CHARLES F. ELDRED, Wausau. Was born in Warren, Warren Co., Pa., Feb. 28, 1841, and was reared at Honesdale, Wayne Co., Pa., coming from there to Grand Rapids, Wis., and then to Wausau. Mr. Eldred was admitted to the Bar in December, 1861, and engaged in practice until the Fall of 1862, when he enlisted in Co. A, 11th N.Y. Calvary, and served until May 28, 1865. He entered the service as a private and was mustered out as first lieutenant of Co. A. Returning to Honesdale, he was engaged in the practice of law there until he came to Wisconsin. He has been District Attorney of Marathon County since January, 1880; also was District Attorney of Wayne County, Pa., for two terms, and served as Assessor of Internal Revenue from 1866 to 1869. He was married at Honesdale, Oct. 18, 1866, to Emma A. West, who was born in Bethany, Pa. They have four children – Nathaniel B., Mary H., Arthur G., and Nina O.