Riddlebarger & Co. ran a large commission and shipping house on the levee . . . and did all the business on the line. Riddlebarger had a pathetic history. He accumulated considerable means, and when he married a young wife was supposed to be happily fixed for a man who had passed the mwedian point in life. A series of unfortunate speculations, however, stripped him of every dollar, and completely disheartened he died at last friendless and alone in the county poorhouse in Fulton [Kansas City Evening Star, 28 May 1884]
Jesse [Riddlesbarger] died last Monday in [the] Howard County poorhouse, 84 years of age. Buried in Fayette City Cemetery, Township 50, Range 16, Section 11. Came to Fayette in 1830. For years carried on the business of a gunsmith, afterward went into [the] mercantile business with John D. Perry and met with great success, then went to Kansas City where he became involved and broken up, came back to Fayette a few years ago. Lived with old friends a few months where he was cared for until his death. At one time he was one of the most prosperous merchants for Fayette [Howard County Advertiser, 24 May 1883
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Riddlebarger & Co. ran a large commission and shipping house on the levee . . . and did all the business on the line. Riddlebarger had a pathetic history. He accumulated considerable means, and when he married a young wife was supposed to be happily fixed for a man who had passed the mwedian point in life. A series of unfortunate speculations, however, stripped him of every dollar, and completely disheartened he died at last friendless and alone in the county poorhouse in Fulton [Kansas City Evening Star, 28 May 1884]
Jesse [Riddlesbarger] died last Monday in [the] Howard County poorhouse, 84 years of age. Buried in Fayette City Cemetery, Township 50, Range 16, Section 11. Came to Fayette in 1830. For years carried on the business of a gunsmith, afterward went into [the] mercantile business with John D. Perry and met with great success, then went to Kansas City where he became involved and broken up, came back to Fayette a few years ago. Lived with old friends a few months where he was cared for until his death. At one time he was one of the most prosperous merchants for Fayette [Howard County Advertiser, 24 May 1883
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