 The name Shotridge is derived from Louis' paternal grandfather Chief "Tschartitsch," this being a Germanicized spelling of the Tlingit name "kakolah" or, in contemporary Tlingit orthography, "Shaadbaxhícht".Shotridge was educated at the Haines mission school, where he met his wife-to-be, Florence Dennis ("Kaatkwaaxsnéi", also spelled as "Katwachsnea"), whom he married in a traditional Tlingit arranged marriage; she was of the Lukaax.ádi clan.Florence became an accomplished weaver of baskets and Chilkat blankets and performed her technique at the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in 1905.