Son of Horace Sunderlin Eldredge and Chloe Antoinette Redfield

Married Bessie Shores, 8 April 1903, Ashland, Ashland, Wisconsin

The Evening Star, Washington, DC, Tuesday, January 31, 1922, page 2

MRS. ELDRIDGE BETTER; RELATIVES AT BEDSIDE

Body of Husband Started for Home in Salt Lake City

The body of Guy R. Eldridge of 1821 Biltmore Street, brother-in-law of Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, was started last night on its way to Salt Lake City, his birthplace, for burial in the family plot.

He was killed at the Knickerbocker Theater Saturday night. Mr. Eldridge was a brother of Mrs. Smoot, whose maiden name was Miss Alpha M. Eldridge. He was forty-two years old.

Receiving his early education in Salt Lake City, he came east to complete his studies, graduating from Columbia University, New York. Before coming to Washington, Mr. Eldridge was employed by the Winchester Arms Company and by the United States Steel Corporation. Three months ago he accepted a position with the Federal Bureau of Efficiency.

Mrs. Eldridge, who accompanied her husband to the theater, was pinned under debris for several hours. She was taken to Garfield Hospital. Her condition is not considered serious.

Mrs. E. A. Shores, mother-in-law of Guy S. Eldridge, reached her this morning from her home in Ashland, Wisconsin, and visited her daughter in Garfield Hospital. She was met at Union Station by Mrs. Helen Shores Savage, a daughter, who reached here yesterday from Chicago and spent much time with her injured sister.

Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge occupied adjoining seats in the theater, and the wife knew of her husband's death long before she was rescued, and later, while being treated at Garfield Hospital, it became necessary for the widow to give explicit directions as to the preparation of the body for burial.

(Marriage information and newspaper article was submitted by Debbie Chambers.)

* (The Knickerbocker Theatre's roof collapsed on January 28, 1922, under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker Storm. The theater roof's collapse killed 98 patrons and injured 133, including Guy's wife.)