Background
Riker, Irving was born on May 7, 1896 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adrian and Louise C. (Dawson) Riker.
Riker, Irving was born on May 7, 1896 in Newark, New Jersey, United States. Son of Adrian and Louise C. (Dawson) Riker.
Student Newark Academy, Lawrenceville School. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton, 1917. Law school, Columbia, 1919-1921.
Admitted to New Jersey bar, 1921, practiced in Newark. Member firm Riker, Danzig, Scherer & Brown. Chairman board Fidelity Union Trust Company.
Director Thomas & Betts Company, Inc., Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company Trustee Point Pleasant (New Jersey) Hospital.
Member firm Riker, Danzig, Scherer & Brown. Chairman board Fidelity Union Trust Company. Served as 1st Lieutenant, Infantry, United States Army attached 316th Infantry, assigned 2nd Pioneer Infantry, 1917-1919.
Member American, New Jersey State and Essex County (president 1943-1944) bar associations. Clubs: Essex, Down Town (Newark, New Jersey).
Married 1st Elizabeth A.M. Cumming, October 27, 1921.; married second Eleanor White, August 11, 1941. Children: William I., Robert A.