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Biographical History of Cherokee County, Iowa
W. S. Dunbar & Co., Chigago - 1889

[page 602]

    JOHN RIDDLE has for the past twenty years been an honored member
    of the farming community of Pilot Township.  He was born in Holmes
    County, Ohio, May 29, 1842.  His father was MATTHEW B. RIDDLE, a
    native of Ohio, of English ancestry; his mother was ELEANOR (UNDER-
    HILL) RIDDLE, a native of the State of Pennsylvania.  Her parents
    were married in Pennsylvania, and removed to Holmes County when she
    was but two years of age.  Caught in the tide of Western emigration
    his parents drifted to Iowa, and settled in Story County; afterward
    the father removed to Crawford County, and died there.  The mother
    died in Monona County, Iowa.  JOHN RIDDLE was brought up on his
    father's farm, and received a common-school education.  During the
    late Rebellion he enlisted in the Twenty-third Iowa Infantry, in
    June, 1861, but being under age his father took him out of the ser-
    vice.  He again enlisted November 10, 1865, in the Nineteenth United
    States Infantry, Company B, and served three years.  He was in the
    battle of Knoxville, and was under General STEEL'S command in 1865;
    he was honorably discharged October 6, 1868, at Fort Union, New
    Mexico, and returned to Crawford County, Iowa, his father having
    settled there during the war.  There he lived until 1869, when he
    took a Government homestead of eighty acres of land.  He has been
    very successful in placing this land under cultivation, and has
    reaped abundant harvests; he has added to his first purchase of
    land, and now owns 160 acres of superior land; it is well fenced,
    has a comfortable residence, a good barn, an orchard and a grove;
    the place is well watered by a natural stream, rendering it very
    desirable as a stock farm.  Mr. RIDDLE was married November 4, 1869,
    in Crawford County, Iowa, to Miss NANCY RANDALL, a daughter of PETER
    and MARGARET (TYRA) RANDALL.  Three children have been born of this
    marriage: MARY MARGARET ELEANOR, ROSE ALMA, and EFFIE MAY, who died
    at the age of fourteen months.  Mr. RIDDLE stanchly supports the
    issues of the Democratic party.  By a long residence in the county,
    and a life of unquestionable integrity, he has won the respect of
    all who know him.

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