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Riggs, James Stevenson – Riley, Henry Hiram

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, 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, 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.