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Please read the Obit. below. I'm interested in finding out if anyone might be able to name Judge Henry Riegel's birth Parents. The obit. does not mention their names. I think this might be of interest to many of you here. Thanks in advance! Denny
Syracuse Herald, Friday, May 14, 1897, p. 6
DEATH OF JUDGE RIEGEL
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Well known jurist passed away today
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He arose from humble conditions with odds greatly against him, to a Position of Honor and Power--Twenty years upon the bench.
Ex-County Judge Henry Riegel died at 11:55 A.M. today at his home No. 100 Harrison street. Until last evening it was thought that the distinguished Judge would recover but when yesterday he grew weaker and weaker and finally at 11 P.M. sank into a comatose condition, it was seen that the end was near. A council of physicians was held yesterday and it held out little or no hope.
Ex-Judge Riegel became ill in January, but recovered, and in the middle of February he caught cold and suffered a relapse. There was a weak heart action and the kidneys did not perform their office satisfactorily. However, he again rallied and until two weeks ago Wednesday was able to be around and eat his meals. On the evening of that day he suffered from indigestion and then from intense pains in the bowels. These gradually subsided, but a few days ago he began to develope signs of an acute attack of uremic poisoning. This is what caused coma and eventually death, it is thought, but the case was a complicated one and a post mortem will be made to determine the exact cause of death.
Henry Riegel was born February 22d, 1825, at Fayette, Seneca county. He attended the district school of his native town and afterward was a student in the academies at Waterloo and Seneca Falls. His parents died when he was very young and he was left to the care of step-parents. He often told with what difficulty he obtained an education, a fact which undoubtedly had much to do with the development of the grim determination which was characteristic of his after life. His step-parents preferred that he should work rather than obtain an education and were so cruel and miserly that they denied him a candle with which to see to learn his lessons, and it was his habit to lie prostrate on the floor and read his books in the light given out by the old-fashioned wood stove in use in those days.
But young Henry got an education, and a good one, too, despite his work on the farm and the sternness and lack of sympathy of his new parents. When he was old enough he began the study of law in the office of William A. Sackett of Seneca Fall, then a prominent citizen of that part of the state.
Forty-eight years ago Mr. Riegel came to Syracuse and entered the law office of Noxon, Leavenworth & Comstock. He had since risen to prominence here. For twenty years he served as County Judge, which at the time was said to be a longer term than any other person had served in that office in this state. He was a staunch Republican.
Leaving the bench he retired to the practice of law and at the time of his death he was a member of the law firm of Riegel & Walker. Wise real estate investments, however had put him in such easy circumstances that it was not necessary for him to busy himself with the law and the last years of his life were rather quietly spent. He was a home lover and belonged to no societies or organizations.
Besides a widow, ex-Judge Riegel is survived by a daughter Mrs. Fannie R. Evans, who lived at the home, and Charles H. Riegel, a son, the actor, who is in New York, and who has been notified by telegraph of the death.
The funeral arrangements have not been made.
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