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of Madame de LongneviUe. from the French of Victor Cousin 0^:A): The Heuriadc, from the French of Voltaire (IS")!)); Engliah Songs from Forrign TongitcHl^r.)): The Self-Tonnru tor, from the Ixitin of Terentius, with more English Songs (ia*^.i), and compiled the greater part of the volume treating of New Jersey in "Memorial History of New York." He iiad in manuscript at liis death another translation of Terentius. a col- lection of orij^inal poems, and more Songs from Foreign Tongues, ami had in pr«>i)aration The Governors of Xw Jersei/ and History of Xew Jrrse'/. He die 1 in XeuMrk. N.J., Aug. 13, 1897. RIDDLE, Albert Gallatin, antiior and repre- sentative, was born in Monson, Mass., May 28, 181G; son of Thomas and Minerva (Merrick) Rid- dle. He removed with his parents to Geauga county, Ohio, in 1817; received a common school education, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was married. Jan. 22, 184:5, to Caroline C, daughter of Judge Barton F. Avery of Ciiardon, Ohio. Mr. Riddle practiced law at Chardon, was prosecuting attorney of Geauga county, 1840-46; a representative from Trumbull and Geauga counties in the state legislature, 1848-50, and or- ganized the first Free Soil convention in the state. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850; was prosecuting attorney in 1856; defended the Oi)erlin slave rescuers in 1859, and was a Repub- lican representative from the nineteenth Ohio district in the 37th congress, 1861-63, where he advocated the arming of slaves, and the abolition of .slavery in the District of Columbia. He was U.S. consul at Matanzas, 1863-64, and settled in Washington. D.C., in 1864. where he practised law. He was largely instrumental in restoring the friendsliip of Secretary Cliase and the President, and in thus securing the re-nomination of Lincoln in 1864. He was retained by the state department to aid in the prosecution of John H. Surratt for the murder of President Lincoln; was law- officer of the District of Columbia, 1877-99, and was in charge of the law department of Howard university for several years. He is the author of: Students and rMioi/prs (1873); Bart Ridgehj, a St on/ of Northern Ohio (1873); TJie Portrait. a Romance of Cuyahoga Valley (1874); Alice Brand, a Tale of the Capitol (XHlr,); Life, Charac- ter, and Public Services of James A. Garfield (IS^Oi; The House of Ross (1881); Castle Gregory (188-J); Hirt and his Bear (1883): The Sugar Makers of the n>.}-r.5 (1895). He died in Washington, D.C., Mav 1.5. 190-2.

RIDDLE, David Hunter, educator, was born in Martinsburg, Va., April 14, 1805; son of Wil- liam and Susanna (Nourse) Riddle; grandson of James Riddle (a native of Donegal, Ireland) and of James and Sarah (Fouace) Nourse, and a des- cendant through his maternal grandfather from a Huguenot family (Fouace) driven from Caen, Normandy, in 1685. He was graduated from Jef- ferson college, Pennsylvania, 1823, and from Princeton Tiieological seminary in 1828; was or- dained by the pr(>sb3'tery of Winchester, Dec. 4, 1828, and was pastor of the Kent Street church, Winchester, Va., 1828-33; of the Third church, Pittsburg. Pa., 1833-57, and of the First Reformed Dutch church, Jersey City, N.J., 1857-62. He was president and professor of mental and moral science at Jefferson college, 1862-65; professor of mental and moral science, 1865-68; pastor at the college church, Canonsburg, Pa., 1863-68. and pastor at Martinsburg, W. Va., 1868-79. He was married in 1828 to Elizabeth, daughter of the Rev. Matthew and Mary (Blaine) Brown of Can- onsburg, Pa. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Marshall college, Penn- sylvania, in 1843, and that of LL.D. by Rutgers college, New Jersey, in 1863. He died in Martins- burg. West Va., July 16, 1888.

RIDDLE, George, elocutionist, was born in Charlestown, Mass. .Sept. 22,1851; son of Edward and Charlotte (Cutter) Riddle; grandson of James and Mary (Gray) Riddle and of Edward and Elizabeth (Nutting) Cutter. He was pre- pared for college at the Chauncy Hall school in Boston, and was graduated at Harvard in 1874. He made his first appearance as a reader in Bos- ton in 1874, and his debut as an actor at Norwich, Conn., in December, 1874, as Romeo, which role he played the following year in Bo.ston. Mass., supported by Mrs. Thomas Barry and a stock company. He afterward played Titus to the Brutus of Edwin Booth; was subsequent!}' en- gaged as a member of the Boston Museum stock company, which was followed by an engagement as leading juvenile of a Montreal stock company, and by a season at the Chestnut Street theatre. Philadelphia. Pa. He was an instructor in elocu- tion at Harvard. 1878-81. and appeared in the title role of " CEdipus Tyrannus " of Soi)hoclesat Harvard in May. 1881. which was the first pro- duction in the United States of a Greek play in the original. He gave Shakespearean and other read- ings in the principal cities in the United States after 1881, the most successful of which were "Midsummer-Night's Dream" with Mendels- sohn's music, and "Hamlet "and "Macbeth". He contributed to the newspaper press and the Youth's Companion and edited: " George Riddle's Readings" (1889), and "A Modern Reader and Speaker" (1899).