Elliot Ritchie, son of James and Caroline Ritchie, was born
in December 1841 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He was one of 5
children in the family. He married Susan "Susie" Haynes Gibson
on 09 June 1862 in New Hampshire. They had no children.
Sadly - Susan died in 1885.
Nehemiah Gibson bought the USRMCS Harriet Lane about 1869 and
rebuilt her as a sailing vessel. She was renamed the Elliot Ritchie (Read
More) in honor of his son in law. Elliot worked for the
N. Gibson & Company, owned by Nehemiah Gibson while he was alive.
Elliot appears to have run the business after Nehemiah's death on
1882.
After Susie's death in 1885 - he remarried to a Susan D. Baker on
February 20, 1887 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Unfortunately - the N. Gibson & Company appears to have gone
out of business between 1892 and 1893. There was an article in the
Boston Daily Globe asserting that Elliot Ritchie ran into financial
difficulties and spent some time in debtors prison. [read
more from a Boston Daily Globe article in 1894].
He moved to New York City after 1905 and perhaps lived near or
with Charles Earl Gibson.
He died on 27
December 1914 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He is buried in
Mount Auburn Cemetery alongside his first wife and with the rest of
the Gibson family.
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References:
Elliot appears in the following census records
James Ritchie - U.S. Census 1860
Nehemiah Gibson - U.S. Census 1870
Nehemiah Gibson - U.S. Census 1880
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