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[Up] [Dromo's Den] Albert Riddle Biography RIDDLE,
Albert Gallatin (1816-1902). An American lawyer and author, born at Monson,
Mass. He was taken by his parents in 1817 to Geauga Co., Ohio, where he was
educated in the common schools. Admitted to the bar in 1840, he served in the
State Legislature in 1848-49. In 1848 he called together the first convention of
Free-Soilers in Ohio. In 1859 he defended the Oberlin slave rescuers, and in
1861-63 was in Congress as a Republican. In 1864 he removed to Washington, and
was afterward engaged by the State Department to assist in prosecuting John H.
Surratt for his part in the assassination of President Lincoln. In 1877 he was
appointed law officer of the District of Columbia. For a time Riddle was head of
the law department at Howard University, Washington. He wrote several stories of
early Ohio life, such as Bart Ridgely
(1873) and The Sugar-Makers of the West
Woods (1885); a Life of Benjamin F.
Wade; Recollections of War Times, 1860-65. |