Riddick, Elsie G., 1879-1959.

Elsie G. Riddick was born in Gates County, N.C., the daughter of Elbert and Cornelia (Speight) Riddick. She attended the North Carolina Normal and Industrial School at Greensboro, N.C., and after graduating in 1897 went to work for the Agricultural Commission in Raleigh. In 1899 she began work with the Corporations Commission, which in 1933 became the Public Utilities Commission. She was active in the women's suffrage movement, both locally and nationally; the Business and Professional Women's Association; the Democratic Party; and other organizations. She also organized the Elsie G. Riddick Fund to provide loans to young women attending the Women's College at Greensboro [now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro].