Her brother Carl W. Riddick served one term in the United States Senate, representing Montana, and his son was politician and aviator Merrill K.

[1] In 1896 Florence Riddick graduated from her parents' alma mater, Albion College in Michigan, where she was editor of the school newspaper and "class poetess".

[2] There, she wrote a column for the "woman's page" of the Plymouth Pilot and the Daily Republican, newspapers her husband published.

[4][11] "If ever, in wistful mood, I sighed for a medium of expression, my wildest dreams have come true," she wrote of her work as a political press agent, in 1922; "one visualizes the great body of women voters keen to equip themselves in their new field of activity.

"[12] She was described as "one of the real national authorities of women in politics" when she addressed the Inland Daily Press Association in Chicago in 1923.