CHARLES STEWART KITTREDGE

Charles Stewart Kittredge was born January 6, 1833, at Nashua, New Hampshire, the son of the Rev. C.B. Kittredge. He was a graduate of Yale University and received his M.D. in 1863 from the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.

On October 26, 1864, Dr. Kittredge married Miss A.M. Chase of Haverhill, Massachusetts, at a ceremony performed by his father at Westboro, Massachusetts.

The young couple came to Hawaii probably early in January, 1865, and by July had settled in Wailuku, Maui. That summer a news item reported that Dr. Kittredge had amputated a boy's arm which had got caught in the rollers of a sugar mill and that the boy was doing well. The article concluded by saying

until Dr. Kittredge's arrival at Wailuku, Maui, the community had been without a physician and surgeon for some months and the want of one was severely felt. We congratulate the Maui people upon having a doctor to call upon and wish him the success which we are informed he justly deserves.

In 1869 the doctor was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees for the Makawao Female Seminary. In April, 1871, Dr. Kittredge left Maui to locate in Oakland, California, where he held the position of Secretary of the Board of Health.

Returning to Honolulu in January, 1877, the doctor opened an office in his residence on Nuuanu Avenue. Early in 1879 he moved his family, now numbering three children, to Hilo, Hawaii. There he established a sanatorium, which is described in the 1880-1881 "Hawaiian Directory" as a medical boarding house where travelers may depend on good board, good beds, good society and comfort in all shapes at moderate charges. The same directory also listed him as a dentist, as well as physician, surgeon, and proprietor of the Kittredge Sanatorium. In addition to his professional duties, he was Secretary of the Hilo and Hawaii Telephone and Telegraph Company and an active member of the Foreign Church of Hilo.

On January 2, 1888, the "Advertiser" announced an auction of Dr. Kittredge's goods and, presumably, he left very shortly thereafter for California. Settling in Santa Barbara, he practiced there until 1897 when he moved to Berkeley. After some eight years at Berkeley he made a short visit to Massachusetts and then came back to Santa Barbara where he died on January 25, 1907, at the age of 74. He was survived by his wife , three married daughters, Mrs. C.H. Cronise, Mrs. Austin P. Nichols, and Mrs. Charles A. Peters, and a son, Dr. Maurice Kittredge.

He was a member of the Medical Society of California and of the Alameda County Medical Society.

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