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The gentleman whose name furnishes the title to this brief biographical sketch is a rising lawyer and popular citizen of Yonkers, still young in years and with worthy achievements which foreshadow his future success. He received his primary education in the public schools of Yonkers and was graduated from the high school in 1891. He was graduated in the electrical engineering course at Cornell University in 1895, and in law from the New York Law School in 1897. Thus equipped educationally, and endowed with first-class talents intellectually, he entered upon the practice of his profession in Yonkers, determined that his career at the bar should be a successful one, and he is amply meeting the expectations of his most enthusiastic well-wishers.

He early took an interest in political affairs and views national questions from a Republican point of view. He is financial secretary of the Republican Club of Yonkers, was secretary of the assembly convention of 1898, and has been a delegate to county, judicial and various other conventions. He has ably filled the office of justice of the peace since November, 1896.

Mr. Rigby is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon and other college fraternities, and of the Cornell University Club, of New York.

He was married April 6, 1897, to Miss Maude Lawrence, of Yonkers, daughter of William Fred and Mary (Weddle) Lawrence.

Franklin H. Rigby, Mr. Rigby's father, is a prominent resident of Yonkers, and is connected with the Prudential Life Insurance Company in New York city. He married Mary Mockridge, daughter of George N. and Marinda (Lyon) Mockridge. Her father was a wholesale hardware merchant in Newark, New Jersey, and her mother was a descendent of " Robert Bond, the planter, " of Elizabethport, and also of Henry Lyon, a founder of Lyon's Farms, New Jersey, and a representative of another distinguished old family of New Jersey. Franklin Rigby's mother was, before her marriage. Miss Mary E. Adams, who descended in the Virginia line of Adamses. Elihu Bond, one of the ancestors of Mrs. Franklin Rigby, was captain in the patriot army during the Revolutionary war, and performed gallant service for the cause of independence. Mr. Rigby has one brother, Frank Rigby, Jr., and three sisters, named in the order of their birth, Norma, Pansy and Florence.

George N. Mockridge, after whom George N. Rigby was named, was a son of Elihu Mockridge, who was one of Newark's wealthiest land-owners during the early part of this century. The old homestead, which is still standing on Franklin street, has been used by the family for over one hundred years, and is still entailed, somewhat after the manner of English estates.

Elihu Mockridge was the son of William Mockridge, who came over from Wales as a boy some time before the Revolution. He married Jonnah Baldwin, who was a descendant of Joseph Baldwin and wife, née Sarah Cooley, who were among the first settlers of New Jersey.