RIDDLE
RIDDLE
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>.<it 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
l.<tr.>}-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).