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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.