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Richmond, James Cook – Rideing, William Henry

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.

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.

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, 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,

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.