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248  iconographique de l'hôpital des vénériens&rdquo; (1842-'51); &ldquo;De la syphilisation, etc.&rdquo; (1853); &ldquo;Lettres sur la syphilis&rdquo; (1854; 3d ed., 1857); and a great number of &ldquo;Memoires,&rdquo; &ldquo;Observations,&rdquo; &ldquo;Recherches,&rdquo; &ldquo;Communications,&rdquo; etc., contributed principally to the &ldquo;Mémoires&rdquo; and &ldquo;Bulletins&rdquo; of the Academy of medicine (1834-'50).

RIDDELL, John Leonard, physician, b. in Leyden. Ma.. -'0 Feb.. 1807; d. in New Orleans. La., 7 Oct.. 1807. He was graduated at Rensselaer institute, in Troy, N. Y., and in 1835 at the Medical college, of Cincinnati, where he became professor of botany and adjunct professor of chemistry. He occupied the chair of chemistry in the medical department of the University of Louisiana from 1836 till 1865. Dr. Riddell was melter and refiner at the U. S. mint in New Orleans, the inventor of a binocular microscope and magnifying-glass, and ill-covered the microscopical characteristics of the blood and black vomit in yellow fever, lie first brought tu notice the botanical genus "Riddellin." which was named for him. He contributed to the don Microscopical Journal." the "American Journal of Science and Arts." and other periodicals, and published "Synopsis of the Flora of the Western States" (Cincinnati. 1835): "Memoir advocating the Organic Nature of Miasm and Contagion (1836); " A Monograph on the Silver Dollar" (New Orleans. 1845); "A Memoir on the Constitution of Matter" (1847); and a "Report on the Epidemic of 1853" (1S54).

RIDDLE, Albert Gallatin, lawyer, b. in Monson, Mass., 28 May, 1816. His father removed to Geauga county, Ohio, in 1817, where the son received a common-school education, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1840, practised law, and was prosecuting attorney from 1840 till 1846. He served in the legislature in 1848-'9, and called the first Free-soil convention in Ohio in 1848. In 1850 he removed to Cleveland, was elected prosecuting attorney in 1856, defended the Oberlin slave-rescuers in 1859, and was elected to congress as a Republican, serving from 4 July, 1861, till 3 March, 1863. He made speeches then in favor of arming slaves, the first on this subject that were delivered in congress, and others on emancipation in the District of Columbia and in vindication of President Lincoln. In October, 1863, he was appointed U. S. consul at Matanzas. Since 1864 he has practised law in Washington. D. C., and, under a retainer of the state department, aided in the prosecution of John H. Surratt for the murder of President Lincoln. In 1877 he was appointed law-officer to the District of Columbia, which office he now (1898) holds. For several years, from its organization, he had charge of the law department in Howard university. Mr. Riddle is the author of &ldquo;Students and Lawyers,&rdquo; lectures (Washington, 1873); &ldquo;Hart Ridgely, a Story of Northern Ohio&rdquo; (Boston, 1873); &ldquo;The Portrait, a Romance of Cuyahoga Valley&rdquo; (1874); &ldquo;Alice Brand, a Tale of the Capitol&rdquo; (New York, 1875); &ldquo;Life, Character, and Public Services of James A. Garfield&rdquo; (Cleveland, 1880); &ldquo;The House of Ross&rdquo; (Boston, 1881); &ldquo;Castle Gregory&rdquo; (Cleveland, 1882); &ldquo;Hart and his Bear&rdquo; (Washington, 1883); &ldquo;The Sugar-Makers of the West Woods&rdquo; (Cleveland, 1885); &ldquo;The Hunter of the Chagrin&rdquo; (1882); &ldquo;Mark Loan, a Tale of the Western Reserve&rdquo; (1883); &ldquo;Old Newberry and the Pioneers&rdquo; (1884); &ldquo;Speeches and Arguments&rdquo; (Washington, 1886); and &ldquo;Life of Benjamin F. Wade&rdquo; (Cleveland, 1886).

RIDDLE, George, elocutionist, b. in Charlestown, Mass., 22 Sept., 1853. He was graduated at Harvard in 1874, made his first appearance as a

reader in Boston in that year, and in 1875 made his début as an actor in that city, playing Romeo after which he became connected with stock-companies in Boston, Montreal, and Philadelphia. From 1878 till 1881 he was instructor in elocution at Harvard. He appeared as Œdipus in the &ldquo;Œdipus Tyrannus&rdquo; of Sophocles at Harvard in May, 1881, which was the first production in this country of a Greek play in the original. Mr. Riddle has given readings in the principal cities of the United States, the most successful of which are Shakespeare's &ldquo;Midsummer-Night's Dream&rdquo; with Mendelssohn's music, Byron's &ldquo;Manfred&rdquo; with Schumann's music, and the &ldquo;Œdipus Tyrannus&rdquo; with the music of John K. Paine.

RIDDLE, George Reade, senator, b. in Newcastle, Del., in 1817; d. in Washington. D. C., 29 March, 1867. He was educated at Delaware college, studied engineering, and engaged in locating and constructing railroads and canals in different states. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1848, and was deputy attorney-general of Newcastle county till 1850. In 1849 he was appointed a commissioner to retrace Mason and Dixon's line. (See .) He was elected to congress as a Democrat, serving from 1 Dec., 1851, till 3 March, 1855, and was afterward chosen U. S. senator in place of James A. Bayard, serving from 2 Feb., 1864, till 29 March, 1867. Mr. Riddle was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1844, 1848, and 1856.

RIDDLE, Matthew Brown, clergyman, b. in Pittsburg, Pa., 17 Oct., 1836. He was graduated at Jefferson college, Pa., in 1852, and at the New Brunswick theological seminary in 1859, after which he studied at Heidelberg. In 1861 he was chaplain of the 2d New Jersey regiment, and in 1862-'9 he was pastor successively of Dutch Reformed churches in Hoboken and Newark, N. J. He travelled in Europe from 1869 till 1871, and in the latter year was appointed professor of New Testament exegesis in the theological seminary of Hartford, Conn. In 1887 he accepted the same chair in Western theological seminary, Alleghany, Pa. Franklin and Marshall college, Pa., gave him the degree of D. D. in 1870. 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 &ldquo;Commentary&rdquo; (New York, 1869; new ed., 1886); contributed to Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff's &ldquo;Popular Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament&rdquo; (4 vols., New York and Edinburgh, 1878-'83), and to his &ldquo;International Revision Commentary&rdquo; (New York, 1882); edited the gospels of Mark and Luke for the American edition of H. A. W. Meyer's &ldquo;Commentary&rdquo; (New York, 1884); revised and edited Edward Robinson's &ldquo;Greek Harmony of the Gospels&rdquo; (Boston, 1885), and Robinson's &ldquo;English Harmony&rdquo; (1886); and edited parts of Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe's edition of the &ldquo;Ante-Nicene Fathers,&rdquo; contributing the &ldquo;Teaching of the Twelve Apostles&rdquo; and the &ldquo;Second Clement&rdquo; (Buffalo, 1886); Augustine's &ldquo;Harmony of the Gospels&rdquo; (New York, 1888); and Chrysostom's &ldquo;Homilies on Matthew,&rdquo; in &ldquo;Nicene Fathers&rdquo; (1888). With Rev. John E. Todd, D. D., he prepared the notes on the International Sunday-school lessons for the Congregational publishing society of Boston in 1877-'81.

RIDDLEBERGER, Harrison Holt, senator. b. in Edinburg. 'a., 4 Oct., 1844; d. in Woodtuck, Va., 24 Jan., 1899. After receiving a common-school education he studied at home under a tutor. During the civil war he served for three ears in