The full biographical sketch as printed, transcribed from the public-domain book. Spelling and wording are the original author’s; a few scanning errors may remain.
NELSON A. RIGGIN, of Mt. Sterling. Chairman of the Committees on Corporations other than Municipal, State Buildings.
Senator Rig-gin of the Eleventh District, was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, June 27, 1847. He has resided in Madison county, in and near Mt. Sterling, since he was about ten years of age. He received his nomination to the Senate in a con- vention held at Springfield, June 27, 1901, that being his fifty-fourth birthday. He was nominated by acclamation.
Mr. Riggin received a common school education in Mt. Sterling and later pur- sued his studies in the Ohio Wesleyan University. He w^as married to Miss Laura E. Thomas in 1871. Their family consists of two daughters: Theia, wife of John A. INIiller, cashier of the First National Bank of Mt. Sterling, and Miss Daisy Riggin. He is a member of the I. 0. 0. F. and K. of P. lodges. He is noAV president of the Mt. Sterling School Board, the cause of education having in him an ardent supporter.
His commercial interests have been along lines of agriculture, stoek raising being a specialty. Mr. Riggin has been a most zealous worker in the Republican party and was at the time of his nomination a member of the Madison County Re- publican Executive Committee. In the election of 1901 he received a handsome majority, running considerably ahead of the Republican State ticket.
He is a member of the standing committees on Benevolent Institutions, Library, Municipal Corporation No. 2, Public Works and Public Lands, Railroads and Tele- graphs, Sanitary Laws and Regulations.
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SECOND-FOURTH MSTDRIOT,
Composed of the Counties of Butler, Warren, Clermont and Brown
Source: The Biographical Annals of Ohio. See the original pages at the Internet Archive.
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