HENRY S. RITTER was born Oct. 30, 1864, near Ballietsville, the son of Thomas, and grandson of Daniel Ritter. He was educated in the public schools, the Keystone State Normal School, from which he graduated in 1888; and Muhlenberg College. After leaving school he taught in Lehigh County eleven terms, in Northampton and Slatington, and also was principal of the Cementon schools for two terms. In 1894 he accepted the position of general foreman of a department of the Atlas Portland Cement Company, which he held for twelve years, following which he became traveling salesman for the Lehigh Car Wheel & Axle Works. He was stationed as a special man in Kansas, and while there he had full charge of cement manufacture for the Ashgrove Portland Cement Company, at Chanute, Kansas, for one year, but before the expiration of which he accepted the general superintendency of the Great Western Cement Plant at Mildred. Kansas and had charge of 250 men. Owing to sickness of a member of his family, he returned east, and located in Allentown, in June, 1910, and again became connected with the Lehigh Car Wheel & Axle Works.

He was a member of the Lutheran Church, and also of Slatington Lodge. No. 440, F. &A. M. He was married in 1889 to Miss Maggie J. Kuhns, daughter of Edwin Kuhns, of Ballietsville, whose full record is found elsewhere in this volume. To them were born eight children. Mr. Ritter died in November 1913.