Ritchey, Thomas – Rives, Francis E
Ritchey, Thomas
congressman, was born in Pennsylvania. He settled in Ohio, and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1847 to 1849, and again from 1853 to 1855.
RITCHIE, MRS. ANNA CORA (OG- DEN) (MOWATT), actress, author, was born in 1822 in France. She was a once popular actress who retired from the stage in 1854, and for the last ten years of her life lived in Florence and London. Her writings include several novels: The Fortune Hunter; The Mute Singer; Fairy Fingers; Evelyn; The Twin Roses; The Clergyman's Wife; two successful plays, Fashion and Armand; Mimic Life, or Before and Behind the Curtain; and Autobiography of an Actress, the last named an exceedingly popular book. She died in 1870.
Ritchie, Byron F
lawyer, congressman, was born Jan, 29, 1853, in Grafton, Ohio. He was admitted to the bar in 1874; and has since practiced his chosen profession in Toledo, Ohio. He was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Ritchie, David
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Aug. 19, 1812, in Canansburg, Pa. He was a representative from Pennsylvania to the thirty-third, thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth congresses.
After leaving congress he held the office of judge for about one year. He died Jan. 24, 1867, in Pittsburg, Pa.
Ritchie, Henry J
railroad president, was born Feb. 11, 1865, in Canada. Since 1895 he has been president of the St. Augustine and South Beach railway.
Ritchie, James Monroe
lawyer, congressman, was born July 28, 1829, in Scotland. He adopted the profession of the law. He was a delegate to the republican national convention of 1880 from Ohio, and elected to the forty-seventh congress.
Ritchie, John
lawyer, congressman, was born Aug. 12, 1831, in Frederick City, Md. In 1860 he was elected a presidential elector; in 1867 was elected attorney for Frederick county to serve for four years; and was elected a representative from Maryland to the forty-second congress.
Ritchie, Thomas
journalist, was born Nov. 5, 1778, in Essex county, Va.
He became editor of the Richmond Examiner in 1804, whose name he changed to the Enquirer, and he continued to edit and publish it for forty years. At the request of President Polk he resigned the Enquirer to his two sons in 1845, and, removing to Washington, assumed the editorial control of the Union, the organ of the administration, but retired in 1849.
He died Jan. 12, 1854, in Richmond, Va.
Ritesman, John Smart
farmer, public official, was born Jan. 1, 1830, in Morgan county, Ind. In 1876 he moved to Kansas, and has been successful in farming, and has a fine farm at Bennington. He has been justice of the peace for a number of years, and held various other public offices of trust in his county.
Ritner, Joseph
state legislator, governor, was born March 25, 1780, in Berks county, Pa. He was frequently a member of the legislature of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1827; and was the candidate of the anti-Masons for governor in 1829, but was defeated. He was afterwards governor from 1835 to 1839. He died Oct. 16, 1869, in Carlisle, Pa.
Rittenhouse, David
scientist, was born April 8, 1732, in Roxborough, Pa.
In 1763 he was employed to determine Mason and Dixon's Line, which he did with instruments of his own construction, and afterwards fixed the boundaries of several other states. He was appointed by the American Philosophical society to observe the transit of Venus in 1769.
From 1777 to 1789 he was treasurer of Pennsylvania. He was a director of the United States mint from 1792 to 1795. He died June 26, 1796, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Rittenhouse, Laura J
author, poet, was born in 1841 in Grand Chain, Ill.
She is the author of two books: Out of the Depths, a poem; and a book of temperance stories for young children.
Ritter, Abraham
merchant, author, was born in September, 1792, in Philadelphia, Pa. He was a merchant of Philadelphia, and the author of History of the Moravian Church in Philadelphia; and Philadelphia and Her Merchants. He died Oct. 8, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ritter, Burwell C
agriculturist, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 6, 1810, in Barren county, Ky. He was a member of the legislature of Kentucky in 1843 and 1850, and in 1864 was a presidential elector. In 1865 he was elected a representative from Kentucky to the thirty-ninth congress.
Ritter, Carlton M
educator, college president, was born Sept. 1, 1850, in East Varick, N. Y. After receiving the rudiments of his education, he attended the State Normal college of Albany, N.
Y.; and has since attained prominence as one of the foremost educators of California. He has been principal of the Grammar school, and vice-principal of the High school of Stockton, and professor of mathematics in the State Normal school of Chico, of which institution he is now president.
Ritter, Mrs. Fanny Raymond
author, poet, was born in 18-. She is the author of Woman as a Musician; Some Famous Songs, an Art Historical Sketch; and Songs and Ballads.
Ritter, Frederick Louis
musician, composer, author, was born in 1834 in France. He was a musician of Alsace who came to the United States in 1856, and becoming professor of music at Vassar college in 1867, retained that position until his death. He was the author of Music in England; Music in America; History of Music in the Form of Lectures; and Manual of Musical History. He died in 1891.
Ritter, George Alexander
lawyer, writer, was born Feb. 2, 1854, in Edwardsville, Ill. He received the rudiments of his education in the public schools of Nauvoo, Ill.; attended Baylee's Commercial college of Keokuk, Iowa; the Christian Brothers academy; and the Washington university of St.
Louis, Mo. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 in St. Louis, Mo., and for many years practiced law with success in Nauvoo, Ill. He was offered many public positions of trust, but always declined; and his name was several times mentioned in connection with the governorship of Illinois by the public press and the young democracy. He is the author of a work entitled The Lawyer and the Law as a Profession; has made numerous contributions to legal science, and his essay entitled Legal Reform was brought to the attention of the Illinois State Bar association. He has always written on and espoused the cause of a uniform system or code of pleading, as against the old common law form of pleading. He has advocated numerous reforms through the press, and has made some valuable contributions to mental science. He is an honorary member of various societies; advocated the building of the Nauvoo High school; and was instrumental in other improvements in his city, county and state. On account of his wife's health he moved to Denver, Col., in 1897, where he is now engaged in the law and collections.
Ritter, John
journalist, congressman, was born Feb. 6, 1779, in Exeter Township, Pa. The election to the convention to revise the constitution of Pennsylvania in 1836, and elections to seats in the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth congresses, from Pennsylvania, came to him as spontaneous declarations of popular confidence and respect. He died Nov. 24, 1851, in Reading, Pa.
Ritzema, Johannes
clergyman, author, was born in 1710 in Holland. He was senior minister of the reformed Dutch church of New York city, held pastoral relations there from 1744 till 1784, and frequently preached at Harlem, Philipsburg, Fordham, and Cortlandt. He was one of the original trustees of Columbia college. He died in 1795 in Kinderhook, N. Y.
Rivers, Richard Henderson
clergyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 11, 1814, in Montgomery county, Tenn. He was a methodist clergyman and educator of Alabama, and for many years pastor in Louisville in 1883-87. He was the author of Mental Philosophy; Moral Philosophy; Our Young People; Life of Robert Paine; and Arrows from Two Quivers. He died in 1894.
Rivers, Thomas
congressman, was born in Tennessee. He was a representative in congress from 1855 to 1857.
Rivers, William James
educator, college president, author, was born July 18, 1822, in Charleston, S. C.
He graduated from the South Carolina college of Columbia in 1841. For seventeen years he was professor of Greek literature in the State college of South Carolina; and for fourteen years was president of a college in Maryland. He is the author of The Early History of South Carolina; Topics in the History of South Carolina; a volume of College Addresses and Other Occasional Pieces; The Poems Eldred; and numerous poems.
Rives, Alfred Landon
civil engineer, was born March 25, 1830, in France.
He was an assistant engineer in completing the United States capitol building, Washington, D. C., and in building the aqueduct there, in charge of the United States survey in improving the Potomac river; and designed and constructed the Cabin John bridge, near Washington, which at the time of its completion was the largest single-arch stone bridge in the world.
Rives, Amelie
author, was born Aug. 23, 1863, in Richmond, Va. Her first work was a story in the Atlantic Monthly, which has since appeared with others in book-form under the title of A Brother to Dragons, and Other Old-Time Tales. Her subsequent work includes stories and poems, and a novel entitled The Quick or the Dead?
Rives, Francis E
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1837 to 1841. He died Nov. 30, 1861.