John Ball Kittredge was born in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, on June 8, 1771. He moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, around 1791, where he practiced medicine. On July 19, 1801, he married Mary Kellogg (February 25, 1782-August 20, 1836); they had two children: Ellen Ingersoll (May 19, 1803-February 26, 1874) and John Theodore (January 24, 1811-October 25, 1837). John B. Kittredge died on February 29, 1848.
Ellen Ingersoll Kittredge married Dexter Stone (April 12, 1791-November 22, 1846), a shipping merchant from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1833. Stone had three children from his previous marriage to Harriet Ann West: Lawson Buckminster (b. 1817), Thomas West, and Charles. Dexter and Ellen Kittredge Stone had two daughters, Mary Kellogg (b. ca. 1835) and Ellen.
John Theodore Kittredge earned a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1828. He studied medicine with his father and at Jefferson Medical College (now part of Thomas Jefferson University), and received a medical degree from Harvard in 1833. On April 27, 1832, he married Sarah Carey. John T. Kittredge practiced medicine in Framingham, Massachusetts, until his death of typhoid fever September 25, 1837.
From the guide to the Kittredge-Stone family correspondence, 1824-1858, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan)
