Riggs, Elias – Ring, Llewellyn Bicknell
Riggs, Elias
missionary, author, was born Nov. 19, 1810, in New Providence, N.
J. He was a congregational missionary in Constantinople, famous as a linguist, among whose writings are, Manual of the Chaldee Language; Grammar of the Modern Armenian Language; Notes of Difficult Passages of the New Testament; and A Harmony of the Gospels, in Bulgarian.
Riggs, George Washington
banker, was born July 4, 1813, in Georgetown, D. C. He formed the banking house of Corcoran and Riggs, which acquired a national fame during the Mexican war by taking up the entire loan that was called for by the government in 1847 and 1848. He died Aug. 24, 1881, in Green Hill, Md.
Riggs, James Milton
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born April 17, 1839, in Scott county, Ill. He was elected a representative in the Illinois state legislature in 1870, and in 1872 was elected state's attorney for Scott county, and served four years. He was elected a representative from Illinois to the fortyeighth congress, and was re-elected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Riggs, James Stevenson
clergyman, educator, author, was born in 1853 in New York. He is a presbyterian clergyman, professor in Auburn Theological seminary from 1881, and has published The Bible in Art.
Riggs, Jetur R
physician, state senator, congressman, was born June 20, 1809, in Morris county, N. J. He served two years in the New Jersey legislature.
He spent one or two years in charge of the hospital at Sutter's Fort, California, and in 1855 was elected, for three years, to the senate of New Jersey. In 1858 he was elected a representative in congress from New Jersey. He died Nov. 5, 1869, in Drakesville.
Riggs, John D. S
college president, author, was born Jan. 29, 1851, in Washington, Pa. This eminent educator has filled chairs in the leading colleges, and since 1896 has been president of the Ottawa university, Kansas. He is the author of In Latinum, a work in Latin prose composition in two volumes.
Riggs, Mrs. Kate Douglas
(SMITH) (WIGGIN), author, poet, was born in Massachusetts. She is a popular writer of New York city, and the author of Timothy's Quest; Polly Oliver's Problem; The Birds' Christmas Carol; The Story of Patsy; A Summer in a Canon; Children's Rights; A Cathedral Courtship, and Penelope's English Experiences; The Village Watch-Tower; Marm Lisa; and Nine Love Songs and a Carol. She has also written in collaboration with her sister, Nora Archibald Smith, The Story Hour; and The Republic of Childhood.
Riggs, Lewis
congressman, was born in New York. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1841 to 1843.
Riggs, Luther Granger
journalist, poet, was born Sept. 28, 1837, in Fairfield county, Tenn. He was for five successive years an official reporter of the Connecticut state senate. In 1875 he published a collection of his miscellaneous poems. He is now editor of The Recorder, of Richmond, Ill.
Riggs, Stephen Return
missionary, author, was born March 23, 1812, in Steubenville, Ohio. He was a missionary to the Indians in Minnesota and Dakota, and the author of Forty Years Among the Sioux; The Bible in Dakota; and many translations and other writings relating to the Dakota Indians. He died Aug. 24, 1883, in Beloit, Wis.
Riis, Jacob August
author, was born in 1849 in Dakota. He is a New York writer on social problems and the author of How the Other Half Lives; The Children of the Poor; and Nibsy's Christmas.
Riker, James
historian, author, was born May 11, 1822, in New York city. In addition to addresses and brochures upon the history of the Dutch settlers of New York, he is the author of A Brief History of the Riker Family; The Annals of Newtown; Harlem: Its Origin and Early Annals; and The Indian History of Tioga County, in a gazetteer of that county (Syracuse, 1888). He died July 15, 1889, in Waverly, N. Y.
Riker, Richard
lawyer, was born Sept. 9, 1773, in Newtown, L. I., N. Y.
From 1802 till 1840 he was district attorney for New York, Westchester and Queens counties, and he was recorder of the city in 1815-19, 1821-23 and 1824-38. Fitz- Greene Halleck made Mr. Riker the subject of his poem, The Recorder. He died Sept. 26, 1842, in New York city.
Riker, Samuel
state legislator, congressman. He was a member of the New York assembly in 1784, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1804 to 1805, and again from 1807 to 1809.
Riley, Bennett
soldier, was born Nov. 27, 1787, in Alexandria, Va. He received the brevet of brigadier-general in 1847 for gallantry at Cerro Gordo, and that of major-general in 1847 for Contreras. At the conclusion of the war he was placed in command of the Pacific department, with headquarters at Monterey. He was appointed military governor of California, and served as the first chief magistrate of the territory and until the admission of the state into the union. He died June 9, 1853, in Buffalo, N. Y.
Riley, Charles Valentine
entomologist, author, was born Sept. 18, 1843, in England. He was a distinguished entomologist of Washington, at one period state entomologist of Missouri, and from 1881 till his death in charge of the entomological division of the United States department of agriculture. He was the author of The Locust Plague in the United States; Potato Pests; and Noxious, Beneficial, and Other Insects of Missouri.
He died in 1895.
Riley, Elihu Samuel
lawyer, author, was born May 2, 1845, in Annapolis, Md. He is the author of The Ancient City, a History of Annapolis, Md.; and is the editor and compiler of the City Code of Annapolis; the Maryland Manual; and the Memorial Volume of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Removal of the Capitol of Maryland from St. Mary's to Annapolis.
Riley, Henry Hiram
lawyer, author, was born Sept. 1, 1813, in Great Barrington, Mass. He was a lawyer of Constantine, Mich., once known as a humorous writer; and the author of Paddleford and Its People; and The Paddleford Papers, or Humors of the West. He died Feb. 8, 1888, in Constantine, Mich.
Riley, James
mariner, author, was born Oct. 27, 1777, in Middletown, Conn.
He was a mariner who was enslaved by the Arabs of Africa in 1815 and ransomed by Mr. Willshire, the British consul, at Mogadore. In 1821 he settled in Ohio and founded the town of Willshire, named in honor of the consul. From his journals was prepared, in 1816, the Authentic Narrative of the Loss of the American Brig Commerce on the West Coast of Africa, with a Description of Timbuctoo.
He died March 15, 1840, at sea.
Riley, James
author, poet, was born in 1848 in Ireland. He is a poet of Boston whose unpretentious Poems, published in 1886, reached a third edition in 1888.
Riley, James Whitcomb
poet, was born about 1852 in Greenfield, Ind. He is a very popular poet of Indianapolis whose dialect poems of Hoosier life have been greatly praised. His earliest work appeared over the signature, Benjamin F. Johnson of Boone. His dialect and other poems display much real feeling and originality. He is the author of The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems; The Boss Girl, and Other Sketches; Afterwhiles; Old-Fashioned Roses; Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury; Rhymes of Childhood; Flying Islands of the Night; Neighborly Poems; An Old Sweetheart of Mine; Green Fields and Running Brooks; Poems Here at Home; Armazindy; and A Child World.
Riley, John Campbell
physician, author, was born Dec. 16, 1828, in Georgetown, D. C. He was a Washington physician who wrote a Compend of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. He died Feb. 22, 1879, in Washington, D. C.
Rimmer, Caroline Hunt
author, was born in 1851 in Massachusetts. She is the author of Animal Drawing.
Rimmer, William
sculptor, artist, educator, author, was born Feb. 20, 1816, in England. He was a Boston painter, sculptor and teacher of art anatomy, who also practiced medicine, but gave up his profession to devote himself to art. He was the author of Art Anatomy; and Elements of Design. He died Aug. 20, 1879, in South Milford, Mass.
Rinaker, John Irving
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born in Baltimore, Md. In 1862 he raised and organized the one hundred and twenty-second regiment of Illinois infantry volunteers, and was mustered into the military service of the United States Sept. 4, 1862, as colonel of that regiment, and served three years, till the close of the war. He was made brevet brigadier-general for gallant and meritorious services in the field. He served as presidential elector on the republican ticket twice-in 1872 as elector for the seventeenth congressional district of Illinois and in 1876 as elector for the state at large; and was a delegate to the republican national convention in 1876 and again in 1884. He was a member of the board of railroad and warehouse commissioners of Illinois under Governor Oglesby from 1885 to 1889. He was elected to the fifty-fourth congress in 1894 as a republican.
Rinehart, William Henry
sculptor, was born Sept. 13, 1825, near Union Bridge, Md. He was commissioned to finish the modeling of the bronze doors of the capitol at Washington, which Crawford had left unfinished at his death.
Copies of several of his noted pieces are in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, in Washington, D. C.
Ring, Llewellyn Bicknell
journalist, was born June 12, 1854, in Cooksville, Wis. He is the editor and proprietor of The Times of Neillsville, Wis. He has served as deputy United States marshall at Shanghai, China, and was subsequently engaged in newspaper work at Washington, D. C., and at La Crosse, Wis.