Obituary of Judge James E. Riddick, Pulaski Co, Ar

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New York Times, Oct. 10, 1907 - Little Rock, Ark. - Oct. 9 - James Edward
Riddick, Assoc. Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, died today of typhoid
fever. He was born in Fayette Co., Tenn., in 1840. He received his early
education of his native town, and later entered the Macon Academy, from which he
graduated in 1868. Later he studied law at the Leganon Law School, and at the
Michigan University, graduating in 1872. He first started to practice at
Arkansas, where he opened an office for himself. He was a prosecuting attorney
for the Second Circuit until 1878, when he was elected a member of the
Legislature. He becam Judge of the same circuit in which he was Prosecuting
Attorney in 1886, and in 1904 he was made Asso. Judge of the Supreme Court of
the State. 

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