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Stuart Eldridge ( -1901) was a doctor and the second librarian of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Eldridge was born in New York. He received a medical degree from Georgetown College in 1868.

He succeeded Aaron Grosh as the Librarian of the Department of Agriculture in 1870.

He served as secretary to agricultural commissioner Horace Capron on his trip to Japan to support economic development of the northern islands.

He served as a sanitation advisor the Japanese government and was appointed as an officer of the US Marine Hospital Service based in Yokohama, Japan in 1894 and served as Acting Assistant Surgeon. Eldridge died in 1901 in Yokohama.