John Adam Rigg^{[1, 2]}

1854 - 1926  (71 years)

• Name	John Adam Rigg
  Birth	12 Feb 1854	Gibraltar, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Jan 1926	Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Charles Evans Cemetery, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I3116	Tulpehocken Genealogy | Rigg, Dickinson, Evans Branch
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel Evans Rigg, Sr,   b. 10 Dec 1808, Caernarvon Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. Nov 1870, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 61 years)
  Mother	Catherine Styer,   b. 13 Sep 1820, Pennsylvania, USA d. 22 Jul 1896, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F721	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Amanda Baum,   b. 7 Sep 1854, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 21 May 1936, Glen Ridge, Essex County, New Jersey, USA (Age 81 years)
  Marriage	24 Dec 1871	Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Children	1. Doradea Rigg,   b. 10 Mar 1873, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 23 Mar 1873, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years) + 2. Dr Walter Adam Rigg, MD,   b. 11 Sep 1874, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 4 Aug 1960, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 85 years) + 3. Dr Samuel Baum Rigg,   b. 16 Apr 1879, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 3 Dec 1969, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F724	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	31 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Father of Walter, Dora, & Samuel. Employed by Daniel Shenfelder's stoneware pottery works, Keystone Rolling Mill, McIlvain's Rolling Mill, & A.K. Deysher's furniture lumber yard in Reading. Conductor & Supt. of Reading City Passenger Ry. (Reading Traction Co.) in Reading. City Councilman & Council President in Reading. Vice President of People's Passenger Ry. Co. in Philadelphia. Organizer & President of Reading Traction Co. & Metropolitan Electric Co. (Metropolitan Edison) in Reading. President of Interstate Rys. Co. in Camden, N.J., & dozens of subsidiary streetcar lines in Pennsylvania, Delaware, & New Jersey. Established Carsonia Park near Reading. Trustee of Free Public Library of Reading.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Website: Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree (Reliability: 0). http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=53028956&pid=3116 [S121] Ellen Mary Mendenhall Beale, Book: Genealogy of David Jones, (Reading, PA: Owen & Co Printers, 1903), 137.