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Robert Riddell³ (2), fifth son of Robert (1), was born June 5, 1786;
married Olive Tucker, May 1, 1823, and had by that lady ten children, of
whom hereafter; he died Feb. 21, 1864.
Jane Riddell³ (4), fourth daughter of Robert2 (1), was born June 5, 1789.
Anne Riddell (3), fifth daughter of Robert2 (1), was born Feb. 8, 1793.
FOURTH GENERATION.
Lucy Riddell (1), eldest daughter of William³ (1), was born July 17,
1798; died Oct. 31, 1798.
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Rev. Samuel-Hopkins Riddel' (2), eldest son of William³ (1), was
born in Bristol, Me., Jan. 2, 1800; married July 12, 1827, Harriet-Angeline
Ray, of North Haven, Conn., and had issue two children. His first wife
was born May 31, 1808, and died March 15, 1856. Mr. Riddel graduated
at Yale College in 1823; at Andover Theological Seminary in 1826, and
was ordained at Glastonbury, Conn., June 27, 1827. He was dismissed
from his first pastorate to accept the appointment of the American Edu-
cational Society, as secretary and general agent of the Connecticut branch
of the society, to reside at Hartford; during the period of his residence.
there, the Congregationalist, a weekly religious newspaper, the first in the
world that bore the name, was started by an association of gentlemen,
and placed in his hands as editor. In May, 1841, he removed to Boston,
to become the secretary of the American Educational Society, in which
office he continued till May, 1850; having charge of the American Quar-
terly Register, published by the society until that periodical was discon-
tinued, in 1843. After leaving the Educational Society, he became asso-
ciate editor and part proprietor of the Puritan Recorder, a weekly religious
newspaper in Boston, for five years. The Congregationalist, of Hartford,
upon Mr. Riddel's leaving the editorship, had been merged in the Puritan
Recorder, losing its distinctive name; and in the meantime this name was
assumed by a new independent journal, started in Boston, which at length
bought up the Recorder, and has become a first-class denominational paper.
After severing his connection with the Recorder he was installed pastor of
the Congregational Church in Tamworth, N. H., where for twelve years
he labored in the ministry, until August, 1872, when he relinquished his
charge. He continued his residence in Tamworth some time after closing
his pastoral relations with the church there. He had married, secondly,
Oct. 7, 1862, Mrs. C. D. (Douglass) Evans, of North Conway. She was born
in Portland, Me., April 11, 1810; died in Conway, N. H., Jan. 28, 1866.
In 1875, he went West with the intention of visiting relatives, but was pre-
vailed upon to pass the winter with a family at Des Moines, who had for-
merly been in his parish in Tamworth. But when the spring came he took
cold, which developed into pneumonia, of which he died June 1, 1876.
The old ministers knew Mr. Riddel well, and those who were early
associated with him valued him for those qualities which made him a
faithful and successful editor and secretary; for his accuracy, thorough-
ness, and order; for his keen interest in whatever was worth doing; for
a nicety of perception, taste, and sagacity, which were peculiarly prom-
inent characteristics of the man. He had all the marks of scholarship
which impress those of educational and scholarly taste.
Mr. Riddel was
a clear thinker and a strong, logical writer; he had never published books,
but his able articles, published in some of the leading papers and maga
zines, always commanded attention, as the products of a master-mind.
He was a man of strong tendencies, - strong in affection and unfaltering
