Grundy County IL Archives Biographies.....Riddle, George March 7, 1833 - 
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Author: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", 1882

George RIDDLE, hardware merchant, Morris, was born in Blair County, Penn., 
March 7, 1833, son of John and Jane (McKILLIP) RIDDLE, natives of 
Pennsylvania. He was a farmer by occupation, and died in his native State; she 
died in Pennsylvania, in 1856. They raised six children, four sons, of whom 
our subject is the second, and two daughters. Our subject was educated in the 
common schools of Pennsylvania, and at the age of sixteen began clerking in a 
dry goods store, in New Castle, where he remained three years. After spending 
three years more in Mercer County, Penn., he came to Illinois in 1855, and 
began the foundry business, building the first foundry of this place. He 
carried on this business for two years, and then went into the coal business 
for three years, after which he pursued farming until 1876, when he opened a 
hardware store in partnership with Mr. IRONS; this firm still continues, and 
does a good business. Mr. RIDDLE was married in Morris, November 4, 1856, to 
Amelia FERGUSON, daughter of Daniel FERGUSON, spoken of in another part of 
this work. Our subject has been School Treasurer for fourteen years, in Mazon 
Township; is a member of the Masonic order, in which he has taken all the 
degrees from Entered Apprentice to Knight Templar, and is one of the oldest 
members of the order at Morris. He is President of the Forest City Mining 
Company, in Summit County, Colo., considered one of the richest mines in that 
State; he is also Superintendent of the Grundy County Mining Company; 
President of the Morris Cutlery Company, and a member of the Republican party.

[Source: "History of Grundy County, Illinois", Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co., 
Historical Publishers, Lake Side Building, 1882]

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