Eldredge, Laurence H. (Laurence Howard), 1902-1982

Laurence H. Eldredge was born in Cold Springs, New Jersey, in March 1902. He graduated from Lafayette College in 1924 and earned his LL.B. degree of Law from the University of Pennsylvania in 1927.

Eldredge started teaching law in Philadelphia in the late 1920s, first at Temple University and later at the University of Pennsylvania. He retired from the Penn Law School in 1944. From 1940 to 1968 he was a lecturer on medical jurisprudence at the Penn Medical School.

He began his attorney practice in the 1930s and became a well-known lawyer in the Philadelphia area. In addition to his teaching and attorney services, Eldredge also distinguished himself through active participation in civic and cultural affairs. He was president of Episcopal Hospital from 1946 to 1953, president of the Philadelphia Art Alliance from 1946 to 1966 and president of the Better Business Bureau of Philadelphia from 1954 to 1969. He served as vice-president, and then president, of Lafayette College Alumni Association in the early 1960s.

During World War II, he taught as a training instructor for the Volunteer Port Security Force of the U.S. Coast Guard. His rank there was Lieutenant.

From the late 1930s to late 1960s, Eldredge served as State Reporter for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. From early 1960s to 1971, he assisted John C. Bell, Jr., Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1961-1972), in the publishing of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Journal.

Eldredge moved to San Francisco in 1970 and taught at the Hastings College of Law at the University of California. He died in July 1982.