Month: August 2025

HEADER Oliver W Riggle OLIVER W. RIGGLE, who carries on farming in Burrell township, Armstrong county, was born in that township Jan. 10, 1864, son of George and Hannah (Turney) Riggle. George Riggle and his wife were both from Westmoreland county, this State, and both were of German descent. They had a family of eleven … Read more

HEADER Miles A. Riggle MILES A. RIGGLE, of Burrell township, Armstrong county, was born on the old Riggle homestead in that township Oct. 14, 1862, son of Daniel Riggle. His grandparents, John and Sarah (Shetler) Riggle, were of German extraction. Daniel Riggle, father of Miles A. Riggle, was born in Westmoreland county, Pa., and came … Read more

HEADER Absalom B Riggle ABSALOM B. RIGGLE has lived at his present place in Burrell township, Armstrong county, since 1870, and is one of the prosperous and respected farmers of that section. He was born in Allegheny township June 24, 1846, and was nearly a year old when his father, Daniel Riggle, moved to Burrell … Read more

HEADER Charles R Riddle CHARLES R. RIDDLE, teamster and contractor, of Leechburg, was born in Allegheny county, July 11, 1858, son of John and Margaret (Porter) Riddle. Mr. Riddle�s paternal grandfather was born at Baltimore, Md., and became an early settler of Pittsburgh, where he located in 1811. By trade he was a painter, and … Read more

HEADER John W. Rickel JOHN W. RICKEL, truck farmer of Washington township, occupies and operates part of the tract originally settled by his. grandfather and grandmother, George and Elizabeth (Christman) Rickel. He is a descendant of one of the Hessian soldiers who came to America during the Revolutionary war, a number of whom refused to … Read more

HEADER ROSS REYNOLDS ROSS REYNOLDS, late of Kittanning, was a brilliant representative of a family which has been foremost among the leading residents of the place from its earliest days. His grandfather, David Reynolds, was one of the first hotelkeepers in that place, and the family has been in that line there continuously to the … Read more

HEADER JACKSON BOGGS REYNOLDS JACKSON BOGGS REYNOLDS, of Kittanning, where he has been ticket agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for almost a quarter of a century, is a son of Withington and Isabel (Boggs) Reynolds, belonging in both paternal and maternal lines to leading pioneer families of Armstrong County. George Reynolds, the first ancestor … Read more

HEADER Harry Reynolds HARRY REYNOLDS, proprietor of the Reynolds Hotel at Kittanning, was born Oct. 6, 1854, the son of Absalom Reynolds, and grandson of David Reynolds. A somewhat lengthy account of David Reynolds and his father, George Reynolds, appears elsewhere in this work. David Reynolds was one of the early settiers of Kittanning, and … Read more

HEADER David Reynolds DAVID REYNOLDS, now living retired at Ford City, Armstrong county, is a member of a family which has been known in Kittanning, this county, for may years, his grandfather, David Reynolds, having founded the hotel there which bore his name, and its modern successor, the “Hotel Reynolds”, continues to be one of … Read more

HEADER Fritz Reitler FRITZ REITLER, of Ford City, Armstrong county, now engaged in the bakery business, was born in Germany in 1869, son of John Reitler. John Reitler, who resides with his family at Ford City, was born and married in Germany and came to America with his wife and three sons, landing at New … Read more