Biography

06/25/1845 - 12/22/1882

RINGGOLD, William H., a Representative from Philadelphia County; born, June 25, 1845; private, musician, Battery K, 152nd Regiment, 3rd Pennsylvania Heavy Artillery (1863-1864, Civil War); private, Company I, 188th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1864-1865, Civil War); cigar dealer; ward assessor, Philadelphia; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of  Representatives for the terms 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878 and 1881; elected, delegate, Republican National Convention (1880); died, December 22, 1882 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; interred, Hickory Grove Cemetery, Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware.