Santa Clara County Biographies


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SPEER RIDDELL
 
            Speer Riddell was also a native of Erie, Pennsylvania, but came to 
California in 1852, locating at San Francisco, devoting his time to banking, 
holding the position of paying teller originally for Drexel, Sather & Church, 
afterward for twelve years for John Parrott, and after the retirement of Mr. 
Parrott filled the same position in the London and San Francisco Bank, Limited, 
until 1883, when he resigned to take the presidency of the San Bernardino Borax 
Mining Company, which he held until his sudden death, in October, 1884, at the 
age of fifty-four years.  He was widely known in the city and in this county, 
and universally respected for his integrity, ability, and kindliness of heart.  
By close attention to business, and the exercise of most excellent judgment, Mr. 
Riddell was rewarded by the accumulation of a fortune that permitted of the 
indulgence of his taste for the country, and found much pleasure in thus 
assisting his brother, D. C. Riddell, to develop a property in a manner that 
redounds to their credit.
 
Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, 
Illustrated. - Edited by H. S. Foote.- Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 
1888.
Pg. 394
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler
Proofread by Betty Vickroy