Thomas D. Whitridge

Thomas married Bessie Shoemaker, who was a sister to Thomas' sister Ellen's husband Samuel. He was engaged in business as an importer and subsequently with his father as a banker and broker. He was Vice Consul at Baltimore for the Kingdom of Denmark. Thomas and Bessie lost their lives while trying to escape together from their burning dwelling in 1895. They had no children.

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Fell to Their Death.
Baltimore, Md, Jan 15 - Mr Thomas Whitridge and his young wife were almost instantly killed this morning at their home on west Biddle street while fleeing from flames which enveloped the structure. Fire was seen in the rear of the house at 4 o'clock and Mr and Mrs Whitridge, who were on the second floor, tried to escape by the stairway, but smoke and flames made egress from that direction impossible. The flames approached them with awful rapidity as they stood at a front window watching the firemen raising a ladder for their rescue. Scorched and blinded, Mr Whitridge caught his wife about the waist and grasped the ladder with the other hand, before a fireman could mount to the window. In his excitement or because he could not sustain the combined weight of both, Mr Whitridge released his hold upon the ladder and the two forms plunged to the pavement 20 feet below, striking on their heads. Mrs Whitridge was instantly killed and Mr Whitridge died half an hour later without regaining consciousness.

Source: The Alexandria (VA) Gazette, January 15, 1895.

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Johns Hopkins University. Class of 1890. Born Baltimore, Md, 1867. Prepared at St Paul's School, Concord, NH. Member of banking firm of John A Whitridge & Son, Baltimore, Md.. Consul to Chile. Vice-consul to Sweden. Baltimore Club. Delta Phi.

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Thomas Whitridge BIRTH 28 Dec 1869 Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA DEATH 15 Jan 1895 (aged 25) Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA BURIAL Green Mount Cemetery Baltimore, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA MEMORIAL ID 168038604 · View Source

MEMORIAL PHOTOS 1 FLOWERS 0 Family Members Parents Photo John Augustus Whitridge 1835–1907

Ellen Ward Henderson Whitridge 1838–1891

Spouse Photo Bessie Shoemaker Whitridge 1871–1895 (m. 1894)

Siblings Photo Ellen Ward Whitridge Shoemaker 1863–1954

Photo Morris Whitridge 1865–1935

William Whitridge 1870–1950

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