Editing Riverton, New Jersey (section)

==Notable people==
{{Category see also|People from Riverton, New Jersey}}
People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Riverton include:

* [[John Fraser (architect)|John Fraser]] (1825–1906), architect who served as acting supervisory architect for the [[United States Department of the Treasury]], created a master plan for the [[United States Capitol]] grounds and served on the commission to complete the [[Washington Monument]]<ref>{{Philadelphia Architects and Buildings |ar=25822 |Fraser, John (1825-1906). "Subsequent commissions in Philadelphia record John Fraser & Son as architects; however, although Archibald Fraser died in 1895, the firm did not disappear from the Philadelphia city directories until 1904 when Fraser retired to Riverton, NJ, where he (and his son) had maintained residence."}}</ref>
* [[Nat Gertler]] (born 1965), writer best known for his comics and his books about [[comic books]]<ref>[http://www.gertler.com/ Biography], Nat Gertler - Freelance Writer - Comics Guy. Accessed December 1, 2013. "His earlier years were spent in Cinnaminson, NJ; Simsbury, CT; and Riverton, NJ, where he stayed long enough to consider it his hometown."</ref>
* [[Lloyd Carpenter Griscom]] (1872–1959), American diplomat<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/04/02/100528265.pdf "Lloyd C. Griscom Under the Knife; Condition Very Grave Last Night in Philadelphia After an Operation"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 2, 1912. Accessed December 14, 2007. "Lloyd Carpenter Griscom was born in Riverton, N.&nbsp;J., on Nov. 4, 1872."</ref>
* [[William Levis James]] (1833–1903), [[Union Army]] quartermaster and brevet brigadier general<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Prichard |first=Roger T. |url=https://rivertonhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Full-History-William-Parrish-General-James-House.pdf |title=The Parrish-James House "The Red Gables": A History of 311 Bank Avenue, Riverton, New Jersey |date=2019-09-24 |publisher=Historical Society of Riverton |location=Riverton, NJ |pages=17–26 |language=en-US |access-date=2023-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330173319/https://rivertonhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Full-History-William-Parrish-General-James-House.pdf |archive-date=2023-03-30 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Charles Wellford Leavitt]] (1871–1928), landscape architect, urban planner and civil engineer<ref>{{Philadelphia Architects and Buildings |author=Tatman, Sandra L. |ar=23914 Leavitt, Charles Wellford Jr. (1871-1928) |link=no}}. "Born in Riverton, NJ, Charles Wellford Leavitt Jr., received his early education at the Gunnery in Washington, CT, and at Cheltenham Academy in Cheltenham, PA."</ref>
* [[Frank A. Mathews Jr.]] (1904–1964), represented {{ushr|New Jersey|4}} in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1945 to 1949<ref>[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000233 Frank Asbury Mathews Jr.], ''[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]''. Accessed September 10, 2007.</ref>
* [[Philip Slater]] (1927–2013), sociologist who wrote the 1970 work ''The Pursuit of Loneliness''<ref>[[Paul Vitello|Vitello, Paul]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/books/philip-e-slater-social-critic-who-renounced-academia-dies-at-86.html "Philip E. Slater, Social Critic Who Renounced Academia, Dies at 86"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 29, 2013. Accessed December 1, 2013. "Philip Elliot Slater was born on May 15, 1927, in Riverton, N.J., the youngest of three children of Pauline Holman Slater and John Elliot Slater, a shipping executive."</ref>
* [[F. Trowbridge vom Baur]] (1908–2000), lawyer who was [[General Counsel of the Navy]] from 1953 to 1960<ref>Saxon, Wolfgang. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/23/us/f-trowbridge-vom-baur-91-general-counsel-of-navy-dept.html "F. Trowbridge vom Baur, 91, General Counsel of Navy Dept."], ''[[The New York Times]]'', June 23, 2000. Accessed September 24, 2015. "Francis Trowbridge vom Baur was born in Riverton, N.J., and received a bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1929 and a law degree from Harvard in 1932."</ref>