Henry Lawrence Riker, son of John E. Riker, a summer resident of Seabright, died on Monday of last week, aged forty years. Death was caused by throat trouble, with which he had been sick two weeks. He was born in New York and for a number of years had been connected with the wholesale drug firm of J. L. & D. S. Riker of New York.

Source: Red Bank Register, Wednesday, August 22, 1900