George Treadway RIDDLE Biography
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Source:  Centennial History of Missouri (The Center State), One Hundred
Years in the Union 1820-1921, Illustrated, Volume V, St. Louis - Chicago,
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company 1921


George Treadway RIDDLE (picture available):  George Treadway Riddle,
president of the Franklin Bank of St. Louis, his native city, was born
February 22, 1947, his parents being Colonel Alexander and Mary E.
(TREADWAY) RIDDLE.  The father was a native of Pennsylvania, born in 1802.
The paternal grandfather, who was the founder of the American branch of the
family, came to the new world from Scotland and crossed the mountains into
western Pennsylvania, settling on a farm near Pittsburgh, where he resided
until his death.  His tombstone in the nearby cemetery spells his name
"RIDDELL".  It was in the later part of the '30s (1830's) that Colonel
Alexander RIDDLE made his way westward to Missouri and in early life
engaged in the lumber business at the corner of Biddle & Broadway in St.
Louis, at which time he changed the spelling of the name to RIDDLE.  He was
commissioned a lieutenant colonel of the St. Louis Legion, Ninety-fifty
Regiment, First Brigade, Second Division, Missouri Militia, and he was a
well known figure of this city in the middle portion of the nineteenth
century, here passing away in 1867.  His wife a native of Middletown,
Connecticut, was a representative of one of the old families of that state
of English lineage.  She became the mother of two sons, Truman P. and
George T. RIDDLE.  She passed away in St. Louis in 1850.

George T. RIDDLE was educated in the public schools of St. Louis, passing
through consecutive grades to the high school at Fifteenth and Olive.
During the later part of the Civil war he served as a clerk in the office
of the provost marshal and afterward became connected with the lumber trade
in 1865 as a clerk in the employ of James and William PATRICK.   On the 8th
of February 1870,he became secretary of the Mississippi Planning Mill and
continued with that enterprise until 1878, when the company was succeeded
by the RIDDLE-REHBEIN Manufacturing Company, of which Mr. RIDDLE is now
principal owner.  He has thus long been associated with the lumber trade
and has won substantial success in this connection.  On the 15th of March,
1911, following the death of G. W. GARRELS, president of the Franklin Bank,
Mr. RIDDLE was elected to the presidency and remains as the head of that
institution.  In all business affairs he has displayed unremitting energy
and ability and his progress in the business world is the direct outcome of
his ability.

During the war Mr. RIDDLE was a member of the executive committee of the
Red Cross of St. Louis.  He belongs to the St. Louis Club, to the Missouri
Athletic Association and to the First Presbyterian church -associations
that indicate much of the nature of his interests, his recreation and the
rules that govern his conduct.   His political endorsement is given to the
republican party.