RIDDLE, Albert Gallatin, American law yer and author : b. Monson, Mass., 18 May 1816; d. Washington, D. C., 15 May 1902. He re moved with his father, to Geauga County, in 1817, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was elected to the legislature in 1848 and in that year called the first Free, Soil Convention in Ohio. He removed to Cleveland in 1850, was elected prosecuting at torney in 1856 and in 1859 he defended the Oberlin slave rescuers. He served in Congress in 1861-63 and was then appointed United States consul at Matanzas. From 1864 he was engaged in law practice at Washington, D. C. He was one of the lawyers retained by the government for the prosecution of John H. Surratt for the murder of President Lincoln. He served as law-officer of the District of froth for several years after its establishment he was in charge of the law department at Howard University. Author -of and Lawyers) (1873) ; •3rand: :A Tale of the Capital' (1875); 'Life of James A Garfield•' (1880) 'The Sugar Maple of the West Wocids' 11885) ; 'Life of Benja min Wade' (1886); • 'Recollections of War Times, 1860-65) RIDDEk'skrl, Matthew Iroten; American theologiaal b. Pittsburgh, Pa., 17 Oct. 1836; d.
I Sept. 1916. He was graduated from,Jefferson College,. Pennsylvania,. in .1852, •and from the New Theological- Seminary in 1859. Me was adjunct professor of Greek at Jeffer son Colleges in 18574-58, was pastor of the :Dutch Reformed Church, Hoboken, N. J., 4861.65, and of the Second Reformed Church, Newark, N. J., 1865-69. In 1871-87 he occupied the chair of New Testament exigesis at Hart ford, Theological, Seminary, Conn., and from 4887:filled that chair at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny, Pa., until he -retired in 1913.•: He was a"member of the -American Com mittee for New Testament revision,- an editor of the Standard edition of the Revised Version, and was a. editor on the Standard American Revised Version of the- New Testa ment (1901). He was one of the editors of Ladgels 'Commentary' r 'International Com seentary'; "International. Revision Cornmen tary) and .Myer's 'Commentary); edited Rob inson's 'Greek Harmony of the Gospels' _(18S5) ; Vols. VII, • VIII, 'Ante-1 scene Venters' and Vols. ;VI; 3c, 'Nicene and, Post Nicene Fathers' (1886);