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Elisha Riggs, Sr., died in 1853, in New York City, where he resided
after his second marriage.
In 1854 W. W. Corcoran and Elisha Riggs, Jr., retired from the
firm which bore their family names, and George W. Riggs re entered
the bank as their successor, and the present existing house of Riggs
& Co. was established.
For the remaining twenty-seven years of his life Mr. Riggs filled
an important and influential position in the banking business, as well
as in the community of which he was a conspicuous and respected
member. Devoting himself to his profession with an industry rarely
equaled, he took an active part in many public movements as well as
in private enterprises. Naturally retiring and modest in disposition,
his judgment was prompt and his conclusions just. A student and a
man of excellent education, the soul of honor and of every honorable
impulse, he surrounded his life with refined and gentle elements.
Mr. Riggs was a trustee of the Peabody Education Fund, director
in several corporations in the District of Columbia, Treasurer, from
its beginning, of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association as well as of
many other organizations. No private citizen of Washington was
more widely known or more highly appreciated. His excellent wife
died in London in 1871.
Mr. Riggs died at his country seat, Greenhill, Md., near to Washington,
on August 24, 1881, after a brief illness. An Episcopalian
by inheritance and education, he died a Roman Catholic, the faith of
his wife and children.
JOSEPH SATER.
(1756)
JOSEPH SATER is a native resident of Hamilton County, Ohio.
He was born in Crosby Township November 20, 1824. His
earlier years were spent upon a farm, the while attending district
school for a few weeks in each year until the winter of 1845-6,
when he became a student at Cary's Academy at College Hill, near
to Cincinnati, where he held the head of his classes. After his aca
demic term he returned to the farm. He married Miss Eliza Ann
Hedges in March, 1849, when they located upon a farm near to Preston,
in the same county, which they have occupied ever since, engaged
in the pursuit of a successful farmer, his labor diversified by
contributing his full share of public service as demanded by his fellow-citizens.
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