James Garfield Riley

Known from library and ebook records for the 1917 bulletin A Study of American Beers and Ales, he wrote alongside L. M. Tolman on a detailed investigation of brewery products in the United States.

The publication identifies him as an assistant chemist in the Food and Drug Inspection Laboratory in New York, showing that his writing grew directly out of scientific and regulatory work rather than a purely literary career.

Very little biographical information beyond his birth year of 1881 could be confirmed from reliable sources retrieved here, so the surviving picture is a modest but interesting one: a specialist author whose published work captured a small, practical part of American food science history.