Bart Ridgeley: Enriched edition. A Story of Northern Ohio

by A.G. Riddle

He could see from the top of the hill, down which the road wound to the river, that the bridge was gone, and he paused for a moment with an involuntary feeling that it was useless to go forward; but remembering that his way led across, at all events, he walked down to the bank. There it ran, broad, rapid, and in places apparently deep. He looked up and down in vain: no lodged drift-wood; no fallen trees; no raft or wreck; a recent freshet had swept all clear to high-water mark, and the stream rolled, and foamed, and boiled, and gurgled, and murmured in the afternoon August sun as gleefully and mockingly as if its very purpose was to baffle the wearied youth who looked into and over its changing tide.

153 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 2004

About the author

Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Riddle was born in Monson, Massachusetts on 28 May 1816, and soon afterwards moved with his parents to Newbury, in the Western Reserve of Ohio during 1817.

Riddle studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1840. He was a prosecuting attorney between 1840 and 1846, before being elected as a member of the State house of representatives for Ohio from 1848 to 1850. In 1856 he moved to Cleveland, Ohio. He was then elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress between 1861 & 1863, and subsequently the consul at Matanzas, Cuba until 1864. Having returned to Washington, D.C., and returned to practicing of law, Riddle was retained by the US State Department to aid it in the prosecution of John H. Surratt for his part in the murder of President Lincoln. He finished his career as a law officer for the District of Columbia until 1889.

Riddle died in Washington, D.C. on 16 May 1902.