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.