Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1917 — Benjamin F. Ridge Dies. [ARTICLE]

Benjamin F. Ridge Dies.

Lafayette, Sept. 21. —Benjamin F. Ridge, ninety years old, who was. a delegate to the convention in Philadelphia in 1856 that nominated John C. Fremont for president, died herb. He was a veteran of. the Civil war. The convention in Philadelphia witnessed the birth of the Republican party and the Indiana delegation included, besides Ridge, Col. Hick Thompson and John Ade. father of George Ade. Ridge came lien* from Cincinnati in 1850 with John McCutcheon, grandfather of the noted cartoonist.