Samuel D. Riddle
Of Delaware County, Pennsylvania; owner of a shooting lodge on Sinepuxent Beach and of the Glen Riddle farm on the road between Berlin and Ocean City, whose name survives in the Ocean City area today. In April 1921 he took out two special warrants from the Land Office of Maryland for vacant island land in Worcester County's Second and Third Election Districts, near the mouth of the creek leading up to his lodge; the county surveyor advertised to execute them on 15 June 1921. That May the county's first hog cholera of the season was found by post-mortem on his farm. Very probably the Samuel D. Riddle who owned Man o' War, though neither Worcester County newspaper says so.
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1921
Samuel D. Riddle - the Pennsylvanian who owned Man o' War, and whose Glen Riddle farm still names a place near Ocean City - claims two vacant islands off Sinepuxent Beach.
Two land warrants, both dated 29 April 1921 and issued out of the Land Office of Maryland "at the instance of Samuel D. Riddle, of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, for certain vacant land in the Third Election District of Worcester County," were advertised by William J. Pitts, Surveyor of Worcester County, for execution on 15 June 1921. The first island is described as bounded "on the North, East, South and West by the waters of a thoroughfare separating Tingle's or Waggaman's Island in Chincoteague Bay from the Beach, the same being an island, being the southerly of two islands lying close together at the mouth of the creek that leads up to the said Samuel D. Riddle's shooting lodge on Sinepuxent Beach." A second warrant covered vacant land in the Second Election District bounded by Chincoteague Bay. Riddle's farm on the Berlin-Ocean City road appears in the same year's news from a less glamorous angle: in May the county's first hog cholera of the season was found by post-mortem "on the Glenn Riddle Farm between Berlin and Ocean City."
Source · checked 2026-08-10