Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography/Kittredge, Thomas

KITTREDGE, Thomas, surgeon, b. in Andover, Mass., in July, 1746; d. there in October, 1818. He studied medicine at Newburyport, settling at Andover in 1768. He was appointed surgeon in Col. James Frye's regiment in 1775, and was at the battle of Bunker Hill. Dr. Kittredge was an early member of the Massachusetts medical society, and served in the legislature several terms and in the council in 1810-'11.