BIOGRAPHY: Herbert P. Ritter; Highland Falls, Orange co., New York

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Portrait and Biographical Record of Rockland and Orange Counties New York
Containing Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens of the Counties.
Together with Biographies and Portraits of all the Presidents of the United
States.
New York and Chicago; Chapman Publishing Co., 1895

HERBERT P. RITTER, a young business man of high standing in Highland Falls, is
the proprietor of a large mercantile establishment, which he has conducted
here for the past three years. He is at all times considerate of the interest
of his patrons, thereby laying the foundation for a still further business and
still greater success in the line which he pursues. Although it has been but a
few years since he began his present enterprise, he already ranks among the
prominent and influential business men of the place.

Charles Ritter, who is the father of our subject, is now a resident of
Brooklyn. He was born in England, whence he crossed the Atlantic about
thirty-two years ago and located in Painesville, Lake County, Ohio. In England
he was married to Mary A. Puttock, the daughter of John and Mary A. Puttock,
all of whom were natives of England. To them were born seven sons and three
daughters, of whom we make the following mention: Charles is a surveyor and
resides in Brooklyn, which is also the home of Alice E.; Harry, who is engaged
in carrying on a thriving business as a groceryman, also lives in Brooklyn;
Frank died at the age of eight years; George is a bookkeeper in the Western
Union Telegraph Office in New York City; Herbert P., of this sketch, was the
sixth-born; Maude died at the age of five years; Arthur passed away when
sixteen years of age; Ralph is a real-estate dealer in Brooklyn; and Bessie
Frances is deceased.

The subject of this sketch was born July 27, 1869, at Painesville, Ohio, where
the first fourteen years of his life were spent, six years of the time as a
student in the public schools. As he is very quick and observing, he has
become the possessor of a goodly amount of information acquired outside of
textbooks. When his parents removedto Brooklyn he accompanied them, and for
seven years remained there clerking in a store. He then enlisted in the
regular army of the United States, and after one year spent at Willets Point,
went to West Point and was in the hospital service with the cadets sent to the
World's Fair at Chicago. He was in the service for three years, and during
that time had actual experience in practical work, not merely theoretical, as
we are apt to think of it. He was honorably discharged at the end of that
time, and; coming to Highland Falls, engaged in his present business, which he
has conducted successfully from the start.

Mr. Ritter and Miss Ellen Kelly were married January 29, 1894. This lady is a
native of High-land Falls and the daughter of John Kelly, an old soldier,
whose sketch the reader will find in full on another page in this volume. In
politics he is a Republican, tried and true, and in religious affairs he and
his wife attend the Catholic Church.