Ridgaway, Henry Bascom – Riggs, Anna R
Ridgaway, Henry Bascom
clergyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 7, 1830, in Talbot county, Md. He was a methodist clergyman and educator of Illinois, and president of the Garrett Biblical institute at Evanston, Ill., from 1882. He was the author of Life of Alfred Cookman; The Lord's Land, or Travels in Sinai and Palestine; and Lives of Bishops Janes, Waugh, Simpson. He died in 1895.
Ridgeley, Henry M
lawyer, congressman, was born in 1778. He was a lawyer by profession, and for many years was a distinguished member of the Delaware bar. He was a representative in congress from Delaware from 1811 to 1815; and filled a vacancy as senator in congress from 1826 to 1829. He died Aug. 7, 1847, in Dover, Del.
Ridgely, Charles
soldier, state senator, governor, was born Dec. 6, 1762.
He served in the state senate, and was chosen governor of Maryland three times successively, in 1815-17. He was also brigadier-general of Maryland militia. He died July 17, 1829, in Hampton, Md.
Ridgely, Edwin Reed
soldier, merchant, congressman, was born May 9, 1844, in Crawford county, Kan. In the early seventies he engaged in the Texas cattle trade, personally sharing in and directing the gathering of cattle on the range and driving them to the Kansas markets. Subsequently he extended his cattle operations to the Pacific coast, including Washington territory, Oregon and California. He lived in Ogden, Utah, from 1889 to 1893. He was nominated by the people's and democratic parties and elected to the fifty-fifth congress.
Ridgely, Henry Moore
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, was born in 1778, in Dover, Del. He was elected and re-elected to congress as a federalist, serving from 1811 till 1815. He then returned to Dover and continued to practice his profession until he was elected United States senator from Delaware in place of Nicholas Van Dyke, deceased.
He held the seat from 1827 till 1829. He died Aug. 7, 1847, in Dover, Del.
Ridgely, James Lot
lawyer, author, was born Jan. 27, 1807, in Baltimore, Md. He was a member of the Baltimore council in 1834-35; of the state house of delegates in 1838, and of the constitutional conventions of 1849 and 1864. He was for twelve years register of wills for Baltimore county, several years president of the board of education, and aided in establishing the present public school system in 1848. He is the principal author of the various rituals that are now in use. He has also written Odd-Fellowship-What Is It? The Odd-Fellow's Pocket Companion; and many other works of a similar character. He was the editor of The Covenant, the official magazine of the order. He died Nov. 16, 1881, in Baltimore, Md.
Ridgely, Nicholas
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Sept. 30, 1762, in Dover, Del. He was attorney-general and member of the Delaware legislature.
In 1801 he was appointed chancellor of the state of Delaware, and held that office for twenty-nine years until his death. He died April 1, 1830, in Georgetown, Del.
Ridgely, Richard
congressman.
He was a delegate from Maryland to the continental congress from 1785 to 1786.
Ridgeway, Robert
journalist, congressman. He was a representative from Virginia to the fortieth congress. He was at one time editor of the Richmond Whig. He died Oct. 16, 1869, in Amherst county, Va.
Ridgway, Jacob Elwood
banker, financier, was born Aug. 14, 1824, in Salem, N. J. He was one of the founders of the Union Passenger railway, now known as the Philadelphia Traction company. Several large ships were also built by him.
Ridgway, Joseph
manufacturer, state legislator, congressman, was born May 6, 1783, on Staten Island, N. Y. In 1828 he was elected to the legislature of Ohio, and was re-elected in 1830; and was a representative in congress from Ohio, from 1837 to 1843.
Ridgway, Robert
ornithologist, author, was born July 2, 1850, in Mount Carmel, Ill. He was an eminent ornithologist of Washington, and curator of the department of birds in the National museum from 1879. He is the author of The Birds of Colorado; Ornithology of the Fortieth Parallel; Manual of North American Birds; and History of North American Birds.
Ridings, Ada Neneta
educator, poet, was born Dec. 22, 1870, in Hollowtown, Ohio. Since the age of six she has resided in Caldwell, Kan. She has attained success in educational work, and is the author of numerous poems of merit.
Ridings, S. P
lawyer, poet, was born in 1868 in Highland county, Ohio. He was raised on the frontiers of Kansas, received a thorough education, and graduated from the State university of Kansas. He has attained success in the practice of law in Oklahoma; and in literature has gained the name of The Poet of Pond Creek.
Ridlon, G. T
clergyman, jurist, author, was born July 12, 1841, in Hollis, Maine. During the civil war he served in the union army in the seventeenth and twenty-seventh regiments of Maine volunteer infantry. He is the author of A History of the Ancient Ryedales; Burbank Genealogy; Hamblens of Beech Hill; Saco Valley Settlements and Families; and Rambles in Europe.
Ridpath, John Clark
author, poet, was born April 26, 1840, in Putnam county, Ind. In 1885 he published his Cyclopedia of Universal History in four volumes. He is the author of Life and Work of James G. Blaine; Popular and Academic Histories of the United States; History of Texas; Life of Garfield; History of the World; Christopher Columbus; Columbia, a Quadricentennial Story; Great Races of Mankind; and Epic of Life, a poem.
Ried, Samuel Chester
naval officer, was born Aug. 25, 1783, in Norwich, Conn. He was in active service during the war of 1812, and regulated the pilotboats and signals at the Battery and the Narrows. He was also designer of the present United States flag. He died Jan. 28, 1861, in New York.
Rief, Charles
legislator, poet, was born Nov. 13, 1842, in Germany. His career has been an eventful one; he has traveled around the world twice; and has contributed many historical papers of value on the countries he has visited.
He is prominent in the municipal affairs of Grand Island, Neb.; is a member of the city council; president of the board of education; and has represented his county in the Nebraska legislature.
Rife, John W
soldier, manufacturer, congressman, was born Aug. 14, 1846, in Middletown, Pa. He was a member of the house of representatives of Pennsylvania in 1885 and 1886. He was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.
Rigby, Isaac Albert
lawyer, wri ter, was born May 13, 1861, in Doniphan county, Kan. He received the rudiments of his education in the common schools; attended the Kansas State university, from which institution he received the degree of LL. B. in 1885. He is a successful lawyer of Concordia, Kan.; has been president of the board of education; county attorney; and a delegate to republican congressional and state conventions. He has contributed extensively to law literature and the periodical press generally.
Rigdon, Jonathan
educator, lecturer, author, was born Dec. 22, 1858, in Rigdon, Ind. He attended the National Normal university of Lebanon, Ohio; and later took the philosophical course in the Central Normal college of Danville, and subsequently graduated from the Boston university.
Since 1885 he has filled the chair of philosophy and literary criticism in the Central Normal college of Danville, Ind. He is a successful lecturer, and the author of a series of grammars that have become very popular.
He is also the author of Psychology; and is at work on a brief introduction to Shakespeare, and a work on Psychology.
His lecture on The Tempest has attracted widespread attention, and he has delivered several courses of lectures in Indiana designed especially for teachers' associations and literary societies.
Rigdon, Sidney
printer, was born Feb. 19, 1793, in St. Clair, Pa. It is said that Rigdon was the printer who first made public, in connection with Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, a manuscript given him to be printed by one Spaulding, its author. He died July 14, 1876, in Friendship, N. Y.
Riggen, John A
soldier, physician, surgeon, legislator, was born Oct. 29, 1841, in Stark county, Ill. He was a member of the eighteenth regiment Missouri veteran volunteer infantry during four years' service, and was promoted to corporal, sergeant, sergeant-major, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant. He has attained prominence as a noted physician and surgeon of Iowa at What Cheer; was president of the Keokuk County Medical society in 1886-87; was senior vice-commander of the Iowa department of the Grand Army of the Republic in 1888; since 1882 has been division surgeon of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railroad. During 1894-98 he served with distinction as state senator in the Iowa state legislature, and was on several important committees.
Riggs, Anna R
educator, reformer, was born Jan. 28, 1835, in Cynthiana, Ky.
For five years she was financial secretary of the Woman's Educational association, in connection with the Illinois Wesleyan university of Bloomington, Ill., during 1876-81. She then removed with her husband to Portland, Ore., and has been eight years state president of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. She was one of the founders of the Refuge for Fallen Girls, since changed to Florence Crittenton home. For twenty years she has been engaged in philanthropic work; and is now the president of the board of managers of the Florence Crittenton home; and state lecturer for rescue work.