Algernon Hartridge

Algernon Sydney Hartridge (August 4, 1831 – April 4, 1876) was a cotton merchant and lieutenant in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

Life and career Hartridge was born in 1831 to Charles Hartridge and Mary Hubbard Green. He was one of their three sons, the others being Julian and Alfred.

In 1855, he married Susan Enoch Knight. They had five children: Ada, Charles, Gazaway, Algernon Jr. and a stillborn child in 1863. Other buildings he owned include the property at 119 East Charlton Street (built in 1852), the Algernon Hartridge Duplex at 105–107 West Jones Street (1869) and the Algernon Hartridge House at 516 Abercorn Street (1870), a block east of Forsyth Park. The latter property is now known as Keys Hall, part of the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Death Hartridge died from hepatitis in Savannah in 1876, aged 44. After a funeral at Christ Church on April 7, he was interred in the city's Laurel Grove Cemetery. His pallbearers included Joseph E. Johnston, Confederate general, and Henry R. Jackson, major general. His wife joined him there upon her death nine years later. She had been declared insane in 1888, two years after she had become a widow. Her son, Charles, became her guardian.