Frederick W. Whitridge

Frederick Wallingford Whitridge (August 8, 1852 – December 30, 1916) was an American industrialist who served as president of the Third Avenue Railway Company.^[1]

Whitridge circa 1914

Biography

He was born on August 8, 1852, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, to John C. Whitridge. He married the daughter of Matthew Arnold.^[2] He died on December 30, 1916, three days after his appendix operation.^[3][4]

In 1919, Whitridge’s daughter Eleanor Lucia married Lt. Col. Norman Thwaites, Director of the British Mission, New York.^[5] and they had two sons and two daughters.^[6]