Editing Jacob Riis (section)

===Later life===
Riis wrote his autobiography, ''The Making of an American'', in 1901. His daughter, Clara C. Riis, married William Clarence Fiske.<ref name="NYT2Jun1900" >"[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1900/06/02/101058163.pdf A day's weddings]" (PDF), ''The New York Times'' June 2, 1900. Retrieved August 17, 2009.</ref> His son, John Riis (1882–1946), served in [[Gifford Pinchot]]'s new [[United States Forest Service]] from 1907 to 1913 as a ranger and forest supervisor on national forests in Utah, California and Oregon. He chronicled his time in the Forest Service in his 1937 book, ''Ranger Trails''. Another son, Edward V. Riis, was appointed US [[Committee on Public Information|Director of Public Information]] in Copenhagen toward the end of World War I; he spoke against antisemitism.<ref name="NYT21Sep1918" >"[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1918/09/21/102836272.pdf Danes welcome Riis: Glad he has come to represent our information bureau]" (PDF), ''The New York Times'' September 21, 1918; "O'Malley puts punch in synagogue drive", ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'', December 9, 1919 ([http://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%205/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201919%20Grayscale/Brooklyn%20NY%20Daily%20Eagle%201919%20a%20Grayscale%20-%200291.pdf page scan], PDF). Both accessed August 17, 2009.</ref> A third son, Roger Williams Riis (1894–1953), was also a reporter and activist.<ref name="LOC-JacobRiis-2007">{{cite web|title=Jacob A. Riis Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress|url=http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2010/ms010258.pdf|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=September 5, 2017|year=2007}}</ref><ref name="LOC-RogerRiis-2007">{{cite web|title=Roger William Riis Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress|url=http://rs5.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2007/ms007103.pdf|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]|access-date=September 5, 2017|year=2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Roger William Riis and the 'Battle of the Slums'|url=http://www.wnyc.org/story/roger-william-riis-and-the-battle-of-the-slums/|access-date=September 5, 2017|publisher=[[WNYC]]|date=January 8, 1950}}</ref> In 1905, Jacob Riis's wife Elisabeth became ill and died. Riis remarried in 1907, and with his new wife, [[Mary Phillips Riis|Mary Phillips]], relocated to a farm in [[Barre, Massachusetts|Barre]], Massachusetts. Riis died at the farm on May 26, 1914. His second wife lived until 1967, continuing work on the farm, working on [[Wall Street]] and teaching classes at [[Columbia University]].<ref name="nypl">Francesca Pitaro, "Guide to the Jacob Riis Papers" (Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library, 1985; available as a PDF file [http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/riisj.pdf here] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015122629/http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/riisj.pdf |date=October 15, 2006 }}).</ref>
Riis's grave is marked by an unmarked granite boulder in Riverside Cemetery, in Barre, Massachusetts.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FOHgDAAAQBAJ&dq=jacob+riis+riverside+cemetery+granite&pg=PA631 ''Resting Places'']</ref>