Ridder Family Line
Johann Joseph Conrad Ridder
Born: Warburg, Westphalia, Germany
Died: 1858, Quincy, Illinois
Married: Anna Marie nee Steffens
Born: Rosebeck, Germany
Died: 1853, St. Louis, Missouri
Children:
Heinrich (Henry) (1830- )
Clemens
(1832-1898)
The only source of
information I have on Johann is a brief thumbnail sketch contained in Bornmann's Sketches of Germans in Quincy and
Adams County. What follows is a direct quote from p. 217.
"Johann Joseph Conrad Ridder, born in Warburg, Westphalia, was educated to
be a teacher and was one in Korbke. His wife was Anna
Maria nee Steffens from Rosebeck. In 1834 the couple
started out with two children on a voyage to America and landed in Baltimore on
4 July where the family remained until 1840. Then they moved to St. Louis,
where Ridder was engaged as a teacher and organist of the first German Catholic
parish. Later he was employed as a teacher in St. Charles, Missouri and
Belleville, Illinois. In 1853 his wife died of cholera in St. Louis; in 1858
the husband departed this life in Quincy."
Bornmann's Sketches of
Germans in Quincy and Adams County. Trans. Lester Holtschlag and Lenore Kimbrough. Great
River Genealogical Society, 1999.
Henry Ridder
Born: December 7 or 17, 1830, Warburg, Westphalia, Germany.
Died:
Married: Dorothea Theresia Kasten, May 24, 1853
Born: Hildesheim, Hannover, Germany
Died: July 1, 1896
Children:
John Ridder (c. 1856-1907)
Albert Ridder (c.1860-?)
Dolphine Ridder (c.1866-?)
Charles E. Ridder (c.1868-1920?)
Adele Ridder (June, 1872-1966)
Louise (?-?)
Two died
in infancy
The best source of
information on Henry is Bornmann's Sketches of Germans in Quincy and
Adams County. According to Bornmann,
Heinrich arrived in Baltimore from Germany with his parents and brother Clemens in 1834. The oldest son of Johann and Anna,
he married in St. Louis and learned the tinsmith trade before arriving in
Quincy on June 24, 1857. He opened a tin and porcelain ware store in Quincy
which was described in 1879 as the "largest house in the line west of
Chicago." In 1866 he built a house at 1110 Jersey street in Quincy (this
house later passed to Charles E. Ridder and later still to Carl Anthony
Ridder). The 1880 census lists Doris and Henry's children as Albert, Dolphy, Charles and Dela. Their
eldest son, John, was a 23-year-old salesman who lived next door at 1114 with
his wife Mattie and two-year-old son Gussie. For ten years John edited the
weekly Western Catholic
in Quincy. Their second son, Albert, moved to Benicia, California and ran a struggling
tea business that finally failed following the earthquake of 1906. The 1880
census identifies Henry as a dealer in Queensware,
while the Quincy
City Directory of 1866 lists him as an importer. If you have any
information about Henry or Doris, please contact me at ebyerly@vc.cc.tx.us
Sources: Interviews with
Catherine Ridder Byerly; David Wilcox, Quincy
and Adams County History and Representative Men, Lewis Publishing,
1919, pp. 914-915; and Ira A. Glazier and P. William Filby,
Germans To America,
vol. 6; United States Dept. Of Commerce, Tenth
Census, 1880, Adams County, Illinois, ED 30, p. 36, line 12.
Charles E. Ridder (c.1869-c.1920)
Born: c.1869, Illinois
Died: c.1920, Quincy, IL
Married: Agnes Maas, Quincy, IL, 5/7/1901
Born: 4/17/1877, Quincy, IL
Died: 9/12/1944
Children:
Carl Anthony Ridder (1903-1971)
Rosemary Ridder (Flaiz)(c.1904- )
William H. Ridder (8/26/1906-10/4/1993)
Louise A. Ridder (Volm)(7/13/1908-12/1995)
Dorothy Ridder (Sibbing) (c.1913- )
Edith A. Ridder (Bremser)(c.1910- )
Paul A.
Ridder (c. 1911- )
Carl Anthony Ridder
(1903-1971)
Born: 6/16/1903, Quincy, Adams County, IL
Died: 7/12/1971
Married: Frances Cecelia Dittmer, Quincy, 8/4/1924
Born: 1/24/1906
Died: 4/22/1988
Children:
Francis Ann Ridder (Kacynski) (6/15/1927- )
Marilyn Louise Ridder (4/22/1929- )
Charles Edward Ridder (1/29/1931- )
Ruth Adelberta Ridder (Tossick) (7/29/1932- )
Catherine Sue Ridder (Byerly) (8/31/1933- )
Theodore
Andrew Ridder (4/3/1944- )
Catherine Ridder Byerly (1933- )
Born: Quincy, IL, 8/31/1933
Died:
Married: Benjamin Franklin Byerly, 8/23/1958, Quincy, IL
Born: Elk City, Beckham, Oklahoma, 7/27/1929
Died: London, England, 7/6/1990
Buried: Grand County, Colorado
Children:
Ann Francis Byerly (Peterson) (6/19/1959- )
Edward Andrew Byerly (2/22/1961- )
Frederick Charles Byerly (4/23/1962- )
Geofrey William Byerly (2/28/1964- )
Edith Marie Byerly (Reynolds) (7/3/1966- )
Henry
Thomas Byerly (3/2/1968- )
Edward Andrew Byerly
Born: Chestertown, MD, 2/22/1961
Died:
Married: Zoeann Killen, 7/30/1987, Macomb, IL
Born: Denver, CO, 2/3/1963
Died:
Children:
Timothy Joseph Byerly(11/10/1987- ), Macomb, IL
Zachary
David Byerly (7/1/1991- ), Mesa, AZ