Heinrich Ries married two wives, had two sons and was the president of the Geological Society of America in 1929 which was founded in Boulder, Colorado.
The society was founded in Ithaca, New York, in 1888 by Alexander Winchell, John J. Stevenson, Charles H. Hitchcock, John R. Procter and Edward Orton and has been headquartered at 3300 Penrose Place, Boulder, Colorado, USA, since 1967. 
