From Landmarks of Monroe County, NY
by William F. Peck (1895)
Part III, p. 94

Eldridge, W. G., was born in 1842, a son of Elijah who was born in 1805 and died in 1894, and a grandson of William C., who came from Connecticut to Washington County in 1788, and later to Webster, where he died. Elijah Eldridge came to Western New York in 1850, and settled in Penfield in 1879. Our subject, after graduating at the Marion Academy, enlisted in Co. A, 111th N. Y. Vols., where he served two years, and after a residence in New York of one year, went West, where he remained till 1885, being engaged at various points in the secret service for the government. He returned to Penfield in 1885, where he has since been appointed deputy sheriff, and is now constable. In 1893 he and his wife started the Penfield Press, which is published under the firm name of W. G. and A. M. Eldridge. His wife was Augusta M. Van Wormer, a daughter of Rev, Aaron Van Wormer and granddaughter of Rev. Hugh Wallis of Genesee County, and their children are Jay G., and one daughter, Clara A.