Individual Details

LUCY JANE RIDER

(9 Sep 1849 - 16 Mar 1922)

[Fremont Rider Book: Or was born in New Haven, Vermont; Graduate of Oberlin College 1872; Professor of natural science at McKendree College in Illinois. Set up a Bible school in Chicago to train young people for city mission work, she and her husband devoting full time to this work without compensation. (Gray, Edw:26; Rider, Nellie; Child, Fam: 588; Dutchess:346)]

She wrote a hymn. [Dana C. Ryder]

I don't know if it was Shelley or Lucy or both who founded Chicago Training School. [Marjorie Bushey]

Events

Birth9 Sep 1849Weybridge, Addison County, Vermont
Marriage22 May 1885Arlington Heights, Cook County, Illinois - SHELLEY JOSIAH MEYER
Death16 Mar 1922Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
BurialOak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

Families

SpouseSHELLEY JOSIAH MEYER (1849 - 1926)
ChildSHELLEY RIDER MEYER (1887 - 1943)
FatherRICHARD DUNNING RIDER (1807 - 1876)
MotherCLARA JANE CHILD (1823 - )
SiblingEBENEZER CHILD RYDER (1854 - 1923)
SiblingELLSWORTH RICHARD RIDER (1862 - 1919)

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