Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1890 — H. H. RIDDLEBERGER DEAD. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

H. H. RIDDLEBERGER DEAD.

The Ex-Senator from Virginia Passes , Away. Woodstock (Va.) dispatch: Ex-Senator H. H. Riddleberger died at 2:30 o’clock on the morning of the 24th. His death

was not unexpected, and all the members of the family were at his bedside when the end came. Senator Riddlcberger began his public career when ho was but a boy. At the close of the rebellion he was a captain in the confederate army, and was but 20 years old. He was one of

the most dashing sol-ir. n. riddleberger diers and fighters.of tho Tenth legion. He was born at Edinburg, Va., and received a thorough education. He studied law and was admitted to practice in 1806. and quickly became the idol of the people around the section of country in which he lived. For two years after thq war ho was the commonwealth’s attorney and was twice elected to the House of Delegates and Once to the State Senate. Mr. Riddloberger combined the profession of law with that of editor and was connected with three papers in that capacity—the Tenth Legion, Shenandoah -Democrat, and Virginian, lie was a" ipember of the State committee of the Conservative party until (875, was a Presidential elector on the Democratic ticket of 1876, and the same on the Readjustcr ticket in 1880. In 1881 he was elected to the Senate as a Readjuster. His term expired in 1889. Mr. Riddleberger was an orator of no mean ability and a man who could have won a brilliant reputation but for his fondness for alchoholic stimulants. ■ .