Thomas Jefferson Ritter

Thomas Jefferson Ritter, born in 1855, is identified by the Library of Congress as a contributor to Mother's remedies; over one thousand tried and tested remedies from mothers of the United States and Canada, published in Detroit in 1916. The same record also credits William Ellwood Ziegenfuss, Elizabeth Johnstone, and Edna Gertrude Thompson, suggesting the book was a collaborative editorial effort rather than a purely single-author work.

Ritter is not especially well documented in the sources I could confirm, so only a few biographical details can be stated with confidence. What stands out is the book itself: a very large compendium of home remedies, practical health advice, etiquette, and household formulas aimed at family use in the early twentieth century.

Today, Ritter is remembered less for a known personal story than for helping preserve a snapshot of popular domestic medicine and everyday life. For audiobook listeners and curious readers, his work offers both a window into historical health beliefs and a record of the kinds of remedies families once passed from one generation to the next.