Richmond, James Buchanan – Rider, John J
Richmond, James Buchanan
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Turkey Cove, Va. He served in the confederate army, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.
Richmond, James Cook
clergyman, author, was born in 1808, in Providence, R. I. He traveled extensively in Europe, and was the author of a Visit to Iowa in 1846; A Midsummer Day Dream; and Metacomet, the first canto of an epic poem. He died July 20, 1866, in Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Richmond, Jonathan
pioneer, congressman, was born in 1774 in Bristol, Mass. He was one of the pioneers of western New York in 1813; was once collector of the customs for the United States and was a representative in congress from New York from 1819 to 1821. He died July 29, 1853, in Cayuga, N. Y.
Richmond, Lewis
soldier, merchant, diplomat, was born March 12, 1824, in Providence, R. I. During the civil war he attained the rank of brigadier-general. In 1875 he was appointed United States consul in Ireland; subsequently in Italy; and in 1884 was appointed minister resident at Lisbon, Portugal.
Richmond, Mary Elizabeth Mead
philanthropist, was born in June, 1813, in Troy, N. Y. From 1853 until her death in 1895 she resided in Batavia, N.
Y. The Richmond Memorial Library bulling of that city was erected by her at a cost of thirty thousand dollars, in memory of her son, Dean Richmond, who died in 1885. She performed many generous acts.
Richter, E. L
journalist, was born in Harrison, Ohio. He received a liberal education, and attended the Northwestern Ohio Normal school. He has been a telegraph operator, assistant superintendent train dispatcher; and is now the editor and owner of The Pioneer of Larimore, N. D.
Richter, John G. A
legislator, was born April 30, 1862, in Allegheny City, Pa.
In 1888 he organized the first council of the Junior Order of the United American Mechanics, in the city of Canton, Ohio, in which society he has since held high offices.
Rickards, John Ezra
merchant, legislator, governor, was born July 23, 1848, in Delaware City, Del. His early life was spent on a farm; and was subsequently a clerk and bookkeeper. In 1870 he located in Colorado, and nine years later in California; and in 1882 in Butte City, Mont., which has since been his home In 1888 and again in 1892 he was elected to represent the laymen of Montana in the general conference of the methodist episcopal church. He served as a member of the board of aldermen in Butte; was elected a member of the constitutional convention; then became lieutenant-governor; and in 1892 was elected governor of Montana, and was popularly known as Montana's model governor. He was instrumental in the establishment of a reform school; is a strong and unyielding advocate of bimetallism, and his wellknown ability and integrity of purpose have made him invincible in every political contest he has undertaken.
Ricketts, James Brewerton
soldier, was born June 21, 1817, in New York city. In 1839 he graduated from the United States Military academy. In 1864 he passed from the campaign against Richmond to the defence of Washington, when threatened by General Early; and then took part under Sheridan in the pursuit through the Valley, receiving at Cedar Creek a wound which disabled him for the winter. He received the brevets of major-general of volunteers in 1864, and of brigadier and major-general in the regular army in 1865. He died Sept. 22, 1887, in Washington, D. C.
Rickoff, Andrew Jackson
educator, was born Aug. 23, 1824, in Mercer, N. J. The credit is awarded him of reorganizing the schools both of Cincinnati and Cleveland, and largely influencing the school systems in Ohio.
Ricord, Mrs. Elizabeth
(STRYK- ER), author, was born in 1788 on Long Island. She was an educator of Geneva, N. Y., and after 1845 a resident of Newark, N. J. She was the author of Philosophy of the Mind; and Zamba, or the Insurrection, a Dramatic Poem. She died Oct. 10, 1865, in Newark, N. J.
Ricord, Frederick William
lawyer, educator, author, poet, was born Oct. 7, 1819, in West Indies. He is a lawyer and educator of Newark, N. J., and the author of History of Rome: The Youth's Grammar; English Songs from Foreign Tongues; and The Self-Tormentor, from the Latin of Terentius, with More English Songs.
Ricord, Jean Baptiste
physician, naturalist, author, was born in 1777 in France. He was a French physician and naturalist who settled in New York city, and was the author of Improved French Grammar; and several French works. He died in 1837 in the West Indies.
Riddell, John Leonard
physician, educator, inventor, author, was born Feb. 20, 1807, in Leyden, Mass. He was melter and refiner at the United States mint in New Orleans, the inventor of a binocular microscope and magnifying glass, and discovered the microscopical characteristics of the blood and black vomit in yellow fever. He first brought to notice the botanical genus Riddellia, which was named for him.
Riddle, Albert Gallatin
lawyer, author, congressman, was born May 28, 1816, in Monson, Mass. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirtyseventh congress; and subsequently practiced law in Washington, D. C.
He has written number of romances of early life in Ohio.
He is the author of The House of Ross; Bart Ridgeley; Alice Brand; The Tory's Daughter; Mark a Loan; The Portrait; Personal Recollections of War Times; Students and Lawyers; Life of Benjamin Wade; Life of Garfield; and Speeches and Arguments.
Riddle, George Reade
civil ongineer, lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born in 1817 in New Castle, Del. He was appointed deputy attorney-general for his native county, which position he held until 1850, when he was elected a representative from Delaware to the thirty-second congress. He was re-elected to the thirty-third congress. In 1864 he was elected a senator in congress from Delaware, for the term ending in 1869. He died March 29, 1867, in Washington City.
Riddle, H. T
congressman. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-fourth congress.
Riddle, Haywood Yancey
lawyer, congressman, was born June 20, 1834, in Van Buren, Tenn. From 1865 to 1875 he was clerk and master of the Lebanon chancery court. He was then elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-fourth congress to fill a vacancy, and was re-elected to the forty-fifth coňgress as a democrat,
Riddle, Matthew Brown
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 17, 1836, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was an original member of the New Testament revision committee formed in 1871, translated and edited the epistles to the Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and Colossians in the American edition of Lange's Commentary; contributed to Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff's Popular Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament; and to his International Revision Commentary (New York, 1882).
Riddleberger, Harrison Holt
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, United States senator, was born Oct. 4, 1844, in Edinburg, Va. He was elected a representative in the Virginia state legislature in 1871, and again in 1873. He was elected a commonwealth attorney in 1875 and 1879, and in the latter year was elected state senator. He was a presidential elector in 1876 and 1880; and in 1881 was elected United States senator from Virginia for the term of six years from March 4, 1883. He died Jan. 24, 1890, in Woodstock, Va.
Rideing, William Henry
littérateur, journalist, author, was born Feb. 17, 1853, in England. He is a Boston writer on the editorial staff of The Youth's Companion, and the author of Pacific Railway Illustrated; A Saddle in the Wild West; Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains; Boys Coastwise; Stray Moments with Thackeray; Alpenstock; Young Folks' History of London; The Boyhood of Living Authors: Thackeray's London; A Little Upstart, a novel; In the Land of Lorna Doone; and The Captured Cunarder.
Rider, George Thomas
educator, journalist, author, was born Feb. 21, 1829, in Rice City, R. I. In 1860 he removed to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where he conducted the Cottage Hill seminary for young ladies till 1874. He is on the editorial staff of the New York Churchman. He has published Plain Music for the Book of Common Prayer; Lyra Anglicana, or a Hymnal of Sacred Poetry, selected from the Best English Writers, and arranged after the Order of the Apostles' Creed; and Lyra Americana, or Verses of Praise and Faith from American Poets.
Rider, Henry Closs
educator, was born Dec. 14, 1832, in Esperance, N. Y.
He is the founder and present superintendent of the Northern New York institute for Deaf Mutes.
Rider, John J
farmer, legislator, was born Feb. 23, 1840, in Exeter, N. Y. This successful farmer is the owner of three hundred acres, and makes a specialty of dairying and hop raising. In 1894 he served as a member of the New York state legislature, and received the reelection to a second term.