from Jan. 22, 1812, to April 18, 1814, when he resigned and removed to Portsmouth, N.H. He became U.S. attorney for the district of New Hampshire in 1814, and was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of New Hampshire by Governor Plumer, serving, 1816-38. He also served as chairman of a commission to revise the laws of the state in 1826, and received the degree LL.D. from Dartmouth college in 1827. He is the author of: The New Hampshire Justice (1824); The Town Officer (1824); and was co-reporter of the New Hampshire Superior Court Cases 181944). He died in Chester, N.H., March 3, 1838.

RICHARDSON, Wilson Gaines, educator, was born in Maysville, Ky., Dec. 9, 1825; son of Thomas Gaines and Sarah (Perry) Richardson; grandson of Richard and Sarah (Gaines) Richardson and of Capt. John and Elizabeth (Leathers) Perry of Woodford county, Ky. His maternal grandfather was one of seven brothers, who went out in one of Virginia's regiments and fought through the Revolution. He was graduated from the University of Alabama, A.B., 1844, A.M., 1847; was tutor in ancient languages at the university, 1846-49; adjunct professor of ancient languages and English literature, 1849-50; traveled in Europe, 1851-54 and was professor of Latin and French at the University of Mississippi, 1854-59, and at Oakland college, Miss., 1859-62. He enlisted as a private in the Lamar rifles in the civil war, was shot through the thigh at Gaines's Mill, was appointed paymaster, C.S. navy by President Davis, assigned to the ship Selma, was taken prisoner in the battle of Mobile Bay and confined for six months on Ship Island. He was principal of the female institute at Oxford, Miss., 1865–66; professor of ancient languages and French at Davidson college, N.C., 1866-74; professor of Latin and French at Central university, Ky., 1874-78; and professor of languages at Austin college, Texas, 1878-81. He attended Princeton Theological seminary, 1882-84; was licensed to preach by the presbytery of New Brunswick, N.J., April 30, 1884, and was pastor at Staunton, Tenn., 1884-86. He was married Feb. 4, 1857, to Louisa Vinson, daughter of Dr. Robert Lewis and Martha (Bush) Kennon of Jackson, Miss.; and after her death was married, Feb. 10, 1876, to Mrs. Anne Herring McAfee, at Harrisburg, Va. The honorary degree of Ph.D. was conferred on him by Hiram college in 1876. He is the author of Catalogue of the Library of the University of Alabama (1848); Latin Pronunciation in American Colleges (1875) and revised and edited the Encyclopædia of the New West" (1881). He died at Staunton, Tenn., July 5, 1886.

RICHMAN, Irving Berdine, historian, was born in Muscatine, Iowa, Oct. 27, 1861; son of Dewitt Clinton and Mary (Berdine) Richman;

grandson of Evert and Mary (Scott) Richman, and of Jacob Cook and Matilda (Hawk) Berdine, and a descendant of Holland ancestors on his father's side and of English on his mother's. He was graduated from the State University of Iowa in 1883, and engaged in the practice of law in Muscatine, Iowa, in 1885. He was married, June 8, 1887, to Elizabeth, daughter of Joseph Alexander and Cyrena (Bisbee) Green of Muscatine, Iowa. In 1889 he was elected a representative in the state legislature of Iowa, presided as temporary chairman of the state convention that nominated Horace Boies for governor, and in 1891 was re-elected to the legislature. He was appointed by President Cleveland, U.S. consulgeneral at St. Gall, Switzerland, serving as such, 1893-98. After his return to the United States he began preparation for the writing of his notable history of Rhode Island, James Bryce, M.P., having recommended this commonwealth as deserving of special study and philosophical treatment. He is the author of: John Brown Among the Quakers and Other Sketches (1894 and 1896); Appenzell, A Swiss Study (London, 1895), and Rhode Island: Its Making and Its Meaning:-A Survey of the Annals of the Commonwealth from its Settlement to the Death of Roger Williams, 1636-1683, with an introduction by James Bryce, M.P., D.C.L. (1902), and contributions to the Atlantic Monthly, Political Science Quarterly, Harvard Law Review, and other periodicals.

RICHTER, Henry Joseph, R.C. bishop, was born in Neuenkirchen, Oldenburg, Germany, April 9, 1838; son of John Henry and Anna Maria Elisabeth (Albers) Richter. He emigrated to the United States in 1854, and attended St. Paul's school and Mt. St. Mary's seminary, Cincinnati, Ohio; was graduated from the American college at Rome in 1865, and was ordained there, June 10, 1865, by Cardinal Patrizzi. He returned to Cincinnati was vice-president and professor of dogma, philosophy and liturgy at Mt. St. Mary's seminary, 1865-70, and rector at St. Laurence and chaplain of the academy of Mt. St. Vincent, 1870-83. On the erection of the diocese of Grand Rapids, May 19, 1882, he was chosen as its first bishop; was appointed, Jan. 30, 1883, and was consecrated, April 22, 1883, by Coadjutor Bishop Elder, assisted by Bishops Borgess of Detroit and McCloskey of Louisville, Ky.

RICKARDS, John Ezra, governor of Montana, was born in Delaware City, Del., July 23, 1848; son of David Townsend and Mary Rickards, and a descendant of Huguenots and Scots. Both his grandparents were commissioned officers in the Revolutionary war. John E. Rickards left the public school at Middletown, Del., in 1862, and became clerk in a store in Wilmington, Del. In 1870 he removed to Pueblo, Col., and thence to

San Francisco, Cal., 1879, where he engaged in mercantile pursuits. In 1882 he took up real estate and insurance and continued his mercantile interests in Butte City, Mont., where his public career began as an alderman. He was a member

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major, U.S.A., June 1, 1863, and commanded the 3d division, 6th army corps, under General Grant in the Richmond campaign, March-July 1864, in the battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, and the siege of Petersburg. He was brevetted colonel, U.S.A., for gallantry at Cold Harbor, Va., June 3, 1864, and took part in the defence of Maryland against General Early's raid, commanding the 3d division, under Gen. Lewis Wallace, at the battle of Monocacy. He commanded the 6th army corps, Army of the Shenandoah, at Opequan, Fisher's Hill, and Cedar Creek, Va., where he was severely wounded. He was brevetted major-general of U.S. volunteers, Aug. 1, 1864, for gallant conduct during the rebellion, and particularly in the battles of the campaign under General Grant; the Monocacy under General Wallace; and Opequan, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek, in the Shenandoah campaigns under General Sheridan. He was brevetted brigadier-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1865, for Cedar Creek, and major-general, March 13, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in the field, during the rebellion. He commanded a district in the department of Virginia, 1865–66, and was mustered out of volunteer service, April 30, 1866, and retired from active service, Jan. 3, 1867, for disability from wounds received in battle. He died in Washington, D.C., Sept. 27, 1887.

of the city council of Butte, 1885-87; representative from Silver Bow county in the upper house of the territorial legislature, 1887, and a member of the constitutional convention in 1889. He was the first lieutenant-governor of the state, 1889-93, and the election of two Republican U.S. senators was due to his decision as president of the joint convention of the two houses, his action being afterward ratified by the U.S. senate. He was governor of Montana, 189397, and supervisor of census for the district of Montana, 1900. He was a lay member of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church in 1888 and 1892. He was married first, July 5, 1876, to Lizzie M., daughter of Benjamin and Margaret Wilson of Newark, Del. She died in San Francisco in 1881, and he married secondly, in 1883, Mrs. Eliza A. (Ellis) Boucher of Canada. He had nine children, and was residing in Butte, Mont., in 1903.

RICORD, Frederick William, author, was born in Guadeloupe, W.I., Oct. 7, 1819; son of Dr. Jean Baptiste (1777–1837), a native of Paris, France, who fled to Italy during the French revolution, settled in Baltimore, Md., was graduated at the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1810, and in the same year married Elizabeth Stryker (1788-1865), daughter of the Rev. Peter Stryker of New Utrecht, L.I., and was in the West Indies making botanical rcsearches when Frederick William was born. The son was a student at Hobart and Rutgers colleges, studied medicine and law in Geneva, N.Y., and removed with his mother to Newark, N.J., in 1845, where he conducted a classical school, 1847-59. He was also librarian of the Newark Library association, 1849-69; a member of the board of education of Newark, 1852-69, and its president, 1867-69; state superintendent of the public schools of New Jersey, 1860-63; sheriff of Essex county, N.J., 1865-67; mayor of Newark, N.J., 1870-73; associate judge of the county court, 1875–79, and librarian of the New Jersey Historical society for many years. The honorary degree A.M. was conferred upon him by Rutgers in 1845, and by the College of New Jersey in 1861. He edited several volumes of The Colonial Documents of New Jersey published by the historical society, and is the author of: History of Rome (1852); An English Grammar (1853); Life

RICKETTS, James Brewerton, soldier, was born in New York city, June 21, 1817. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy in 1839; promoted 2nd lieutenant of 1st artillery, July 1, 1839, and 1st lieutenant, April 21, 1842. He served in the war with Mexico, 1846-48; engaged in the battle of Monterey, Sept. 20-25, 1846, and held the Rinconada pass, during the battle of Buena Vista, Feb. 22-23, 1847. He served in Florida against the Seminoles in 1852; was promoted captain, Aug. 3, 1852, and served on frontier and garrison duty, 1852-61; in the defence of Washington, D.C., April-July, 1861, and was severely wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Bull Run, Va., July 21, 1861, and held as prisoner of war, 1861-62. He was brevetted lieutenant-colonel, U.S.A., July 21, 1861, for gallantry at Bull Run, and commissioned brigadier-general, U.S.V. He joined in the operations in the Shenandoah valley in June, 1862, and in the Northern Virginia campaign, Aug.-Sept., 1862, commanding the 2nd division, 3d army corps, Army of Virginia, at Cedar Mountain, second battle of Bull Run, and in the actions at Rappahannock station and Thoroughfare Gap, where his division was detached and ordered to delay Longstreet's advance. He commanded the 2nd division, 1st army corps, Army of the Potomac, in the Maryland campaign. Sept.Nov. 1862, taking part in the battles of South Mountain and Antietam. He was promoted

of Madame de Longueville, from the French of Victor Cousin (1854); The Henriade, from the French of Voltaire (1859); English Songs from Foreign Tongues (1879); The Self-Tormentor, from the Latin of Terentius, with more English Songs (1885), and compiled the greater part of the volume treating of New Jersey in "Memorial History of New York." He had in manuscript at his death another translation of Terentius, a collection of original poems, and more Songs from Foreign Tongues, and had in preparation The Governors of New Jersey and History of New Jersey. He died in Newark, N.J., Aug. 12, 1897.

RIDDLE, Albert Gallatin, author and representative, was born in Monson, Mass., May 28, 1816; son of Thomas and Minerva (Merrick) Riddle. 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, 1845, to Caroline C., daughter of Judge Barton F. Avery of Chardon, 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 organized the first Free Soil convention in the state. He removed to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1850; was prosecuting attorney in 1856; defended the Oberlin slave rescuers in 1859, and was a Republican 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 friendship of Secretary Chase 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 lawofficer 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 Lawyers (1873); Bart Ridgely, a Story of Northern Ohio (1873); The Portrait, a Romance of Cuyahoga Valley (1874); Alice Brand, a Tale of the Capitol (1875); Life, Character, and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1880); The House of Ross (1881); Castle Gregory (1882); Hart and his Bear (1883); The Sugar Makers of the West Woods (1885); The Hunter of the Chagrin (1882); Mark Loan, a Tale of the Western Reserve (1883); Old Newberry, and the Pioneers (1884); Speeches and Arguments (1886); Life of Benjamin F. Wade (1886); The Tory's Daughter (1888); Recollections of War Times 1860-65 (1895). He died in Washington, D.C., May 15, 1902.

RIDDLE, David Hunter, educator, was born in Martinsburg, Va., April 14, 1805; son of William and Susanna (Nourse) Riddle; grandson of James Riddle (a native of Donegal, Ireland) and of James and Sarah (Fouace) Nourse, and a descendant through his maternal grandfather from a Huguenot family (Fouace) driven from Caen, Normandy, in 1685. He was graduated from Jefferson college, Pennsylvania, 1823, and from Princeton Theological seminary in 1828; was ordained by the presbytery 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 Canonsburg, Pa. The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Marshall college, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and that of LL.D. by Rutgers college, New Jersey, in 1863. He died in Martinsburg, 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 prepared 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 Boston in 1874, and his début as an actor at Norwich, Conn., in December, 1874, as Romeo, which rôle he played the following year in Boston, Mass., supported by Mrs. Thomas Barry and a stock company. He afterward played Titus to the Brutus of Edwin Booth; was subsequently engaged 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 elocution at Harvard, 1878-81, and appeared in the title rôle of "Edipus Tyrannus" of Sophocles at Harvard in May, 1881, which was the first production in the United States of a Greek play in the original. He gave Shakespearean and other readings in the principal cities in the United States after 1881, the most successful of which were "Midsummer-Night's Dream" with Mendelssohn'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).

RIDDLE, George Read, senator, was born in Newcastle, Del., in 1817; a descendant of George Read, the signer. He was educated at Delaware college, studied engineering, and was engaged in locating and constructing railroads and canals in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, 1840-48. He was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1848; settled in practice in Newcastle; served as deputy attorney-general of Newcastle county, 1848-50; was a commissioner to retrace Mason and Dixon's line in 1849; a Democratic representative from Delaware in the 32d and 33d congresses, 1851-55, and was defeated for the 34th congress in 1854. He was chairman of the committee on engraving and of the special committee on the Peruvian Guano question in the 32d and 33d congresses. He was a delegate to the Democratic national conventions of 1844, 1848 and 1856, and was elected to the U. S. senate in 1864, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James A. Bayard, serving from Feb. 2, 1864, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 29, 1867. RIDDLE, Matthew Brown, educator, was born in Pittsburg, Pa., Oct. 17, 1836; son of David Hunter (q.v.) and Elizabeth Blaine (Brown) Riddle; grandson of the Rev. Matthew (q.v.) and Mary (Blaine) Brown; great-grandson of Matthew Brown, a Revolutionary soldier, and great-grandson of John Brown, whose father, John Brown of Priesthill, Scotland, the martyr covenanter, known as the "Christian Carrier," was shot in 1685 by Graham of Claverhouse, at Priesthill, in the presence of his wife and little son, John. Mr. Riddle was graduated from Jefferson college, A.B., 1852, A.M., 1855, and from the New Brunswick Theological seminary in 1859. He was adjunct professor of Greek at Jefferson college, 1857-58; was licensed to preach, May 26, 1859, and served during the civil war as chaplain of the 2d regiment of New Jersey militia. He was married, Aug. 21, 1862, to Anna M. Walther of Heidelberg, Germany. He was pastor at Hoboken, N.J., 1862-65; Newark, N.J., 1865-68; professor of New Testament exegesis at Hartford Theological seminary, 1871-87, and professor of New Testament exegesis at Western Theological seminary, Allegheny, Pa., from 1887. He was an original member of the American Company for New Testament Revision in 1871 and of the assembly's committee for revising the proof texts of Westminster Standards, and also of the Committee for Revising the Confession of Faith (1890). The honorary degree of D.D. was conferred on him by Franklin and Marshall college in 1870, and by the College of New Jersey at the Sesqui-centennial celebration in 1896, and that of LL.D. by the Western University of Pennsylvania in 1894. He translated and edited the epistles to the Romans, Galatians,

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Ephesians and Colossians in the American edition of Lange's Commentary (1869, new edit., 1886); edited the gospels of Mark and Luke for the American edition of Meyer's commentary (1884); revised and edited Edward Robinson's "Greek Harmony of the Gospels" (1885), and Robinson's 'English Harmony" (1886). He contributed to Schaff's "Popular Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament" (1878-83); and to Coxe's edition of the "Ante-Nicene Fathers" (2 vols.), to Schaff's "Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers" (2 vols.), and with the Rev. John E. Todd, prepared the notes on the International Sunday-School Lessons for the Congregational Publishing society of Boston, 1877-81 ; and from 1894 wrote on the Lessons from the New Testament in the Sunday School Times, Philadelphia. In 1903 he was one of the two surviving members of the American company who prepared the " Standard Edition of the Revised New Testament" (1901); the other being Ex-President Timothy Dwight of Yale.

RIDDLEBERGER, Harrison Holt, senator, was born in Edinburg, Va., Oct. 4, 1844; son of Madison and Susan (Shryock) Riddleberger and grandson of Jacob and Amelia (Heiskel) Shryock. He studied under a private tutor, and in March, 1862, raised a company for the Confederate army and entered the service as 2d lieutenant of infantry. He took part in the Richmond, Maryland and Pennsylvania campaigns; was promoted captain, and transferred to the cavalry; was captured, and held as a prisoner of war from July, 1864. He returned to Edinburg in April, 1865, where he became editor of The Tenth Legion Banner. He married Nov. 29, 1866, Emma V., daughter of Peter and Elizabeth (Samuels) Belew of Edinburg. He represented Shenandoah county in the Virginia legislature, 1871-75. He was admitted to the bar in 1875, and settled in practice in Woodstock. He served as commonwealth's attorney for Shenandoah county, 1876-80; was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1876, and on the Readjuster ticket in 1880; a member of the Virginia senate, 1876-81, where he served as chairman of the committee on Federal relations, and as a member of that on courts of justice. He became editor of the Virginian, a Republican newspaper, published in Woodstock in 1881, having previously edited the Shenandoah Democrat. He was elected to the United States senate in 1881, and served in that body, 1883-89, all of the time as chairman of the committee on manufactures, and as a member of the committee on naval affairs, on the District of Columbia and on education and labor. He labored actively for the rejection of the proposed extradition treaty with Great Britain, for which he received resolutions of thanks from Irish societies of the United States. He died in Woodstock, Va., Jan. 24, 1890.

RIDEING, William Henry, editor, was born in Liverpool, Eng., Feb. 17, 1853; son of William and Emma Rideing. Losing both parents early in boyhood, he joined relatives in Chicago, where he remained until 1870. In 1870 he procured temporary employment as secretary to Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican, and held for long periods editorial positions on the Newark (N.J.) Journal and the Boston Journal. He was an assistant editor of the New York Tribune from 1871-74, and for two years (1875-77) was special correspondent of the New York Times with the Wheeler exploring expedition. In that capacity he traveled about 4,000 miles in the saddle through the then unsettled regions of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada. He became associate editor of the Youth's Companion in 1881, a position which he still retained in 1903, and in 1888 was made managing editor of the North American Review without interrupting his relations with the Companion. He was married in March, 1887, to Margaret Elinor, daughter of C. E. and Ellen Backus of Worcester, Mass. He is the author of: American Authors (1875); A Saddle in the Wild West (1879); The Alpenstock (1879); Boys Coastwise (1884); Young Folk's History of London (1884); A Little Upstart, a novel (1885); Thackeray's London (1885); Boyhood of Living Authors (1887); In the Land of Lorna Doone (1895); The Captured Crusader (1896); Boyhood of Famous Authors (1897); Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains; At Hawarden with Mr. Gladstone, and many contributions to periodicals.

RIDGAWAY, Henry Bascom, clergyman and educator, was born in Talbot county, Md., Sept. 7, 1830; son of James and Mary (Jump) Ridgaway, and grandson of Thomas Ridgaway and of Alumleis Jump. He was graduated from Dickinson college, Carlisle, Pa., A.B., 1849; admitted to the Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, 1850, and was married, Feb. 22, 1855, to Rosamond, daughter of Merritt and Rosamond (Cushman) Caldwell of Carlisle, Pa. He labored in Maryland; was pastor of High Street church, Baltimore, 1855-57; Portland, Maine, 1858-60; St. Paul's church, New York city and vicinity, and in Cincinnati, 1860-80. He was professor of historical theology in Garrett Biblical institute, Evanston, Ill., 1882-84, and held the presidency and professorship of practical theology there from 1884 until his death. He received from Dickinson the degree of D.D. in 1868 and that of LL.D. in 1889. His travels included a trip to the Holy Land, 1873-74, and one around the world in which he was accompanied by his wife, 1892-93. The first is partly described in The Lord's Land: A Narrative of Travels in Sinai and Palestine (1876). His other publica

tions include the biographies of: Alfred Cookman (1871); Bishop Edward S. Janes (1882); Bishop Beverly Waugh (1883); Bishop Matthew Simpson (1885). He died in Evanston, Ill., March 30, 1895.

RIDGELEY, Charles Goodwin, naval officer, was born in Baltimore, Md., in 1784. He was warranted midshipman, U.S.N., Oct. 19, 1799; served in the Tripolitan war under Preble, 180405, and was the recipient of a sword and a vote of thanks for gallantry. He was commissioned lieutenant, Feb. 2, 1807; master commandant, July 24, 1813, and captain, Feb. 28, 1815. He commanded the brig Jefferson on Lake Ontario, in 1814, and the Erie and Independence in the Mediterranean squadron, 1815-17, and served as flag officer of the West Indian squadron, 1827-30, engaged in protecting the commerce of the United States and in suppressing piracy. He commanded the navy yard at Brooklyn, N.Y., 183239, and was flag officer, Brazil squadron, 1840-42. He died in Baltimore, Md., Feb. 8, 1848.

RIDGELY, Charles, governor of Maryland, was born in Baltimore, Md., Dec. 6, 1760; son of John and Achsah (Ridgely) Holliday Carman; grandson of Charles Carman of Reading, England, and of Col. Charles Ridgely. He was baptized Charles Ridgely Carman, but was adopted by his uncle. Capt. Charles Ridgely, whose fortune he inherited in 1790, on condition that he should assume his name. He was married, Oct. 17, 1782, to Priscilla, daughter of Caleb and Priscilla (Still) Dorsey of Howard county, Md. He was a member of the Maryland senate, brigadier-general of the 11th Maryland brigade in 1794, and governor of Maryland, 1815, 1816 and 1817. He was the owner of 400 slaves, all of whom became free by the terms of his will. He died at Hampton, Baltimore county, Md., July 17, 1829.

RIDGELY, Daniel Boone, naval officer, was born near Lexington, Ky., Aug. 1, 1813. He was warranted midshipman, U.S.N., April 1, 1828, promoted passed midshipman, June 14, 1834, and commissioned lieutenant, Sept. 10, 1840. He served on the sloop Albany during the Mexican war, and witnessed the bombardment and

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52; to the sloop Germantown in the West Indies in 1854; was promoted commander, Sept. 14, 1855;