REV. F. A. RIGGIN, Leeson's Hist. of MT 1739-1885, Jefferson Co., MT

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REV. F. A. RIGGIN - pg 1185

From Leeson's History of Montana 1739-1885 published 1885

SURNAMES FOUND IN THIS BIOGRAPHY:  JORDAN

Rev. F. A. Riggin, A. M., P. O. fish Creek, was born at
Baltimore, Md., September 7, 1848; was educated at the public
schools of the city and Baltimore City College; prepared for
Dickensian College at Clinton Institute, and graduated at
Dickensian college, Carlisle, Pa. in 1871. He was stationed at
Harrisburg, Pa., then transferred to Minnesota, and spent one
year; was stationed at Evanston, Wy. T., in 1872, and coming to
Montana in 1873, was stationed as follows: Virginia City, three
years; the circuit being divided spent one year on the Beaver
Head and Jefferson valley work, and Fish Creek and Butte, three
years. He married Ida I. Jordan, the youngest daughter of
Harrison Jordan, July 20, 1876; was appointed presiding elder in
1876, when 27 years old, and superintendent of missions in 1880,
having been in charge of the work of the M. E. church, in
Montana, solely or jointly, ever since. Mrs. Ida I. RIGGIN, wife
of Superintendent RIGGIN, was born in Iowa, November 19, 1860;
crossed the plains with her parents to Colorado, Nevada,
California and Montana, when two years old, and after those years
of travel, arrived in Montana in 1864, being one among the first
children in the Territory, and has remained in Montana ever
since. her parents, Harrison Jordan and wife, still live at Fish
Creek, Jefferson Co., where also numerous relatives reside. Mr.
and Mrs. Riggin have two boys: Harrison Van Orsdel and Guy
Asbury, born in Montana; the eldest, September 26, 1877, the
youngest, July 16, JORDAN