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.