Ryan, John – Sabin, Elijah Robinson
Ryan, John
college president, was born June 24, 1810, in Ireland. He was ordained a Roman catholic priest; and in 1850 was elected president of St. Francis Xavier college, resigning in 1856. He died in 1861, in New York city.
Ryan, Mrs. Marah Ellis
(MAR- TIN), actress, author, was born in 1860 in Pennsylvania. She is an actress and novelist living at Fayette Springs, Pa., and the author of A Pagan of the Alleghanies; Merze; On Love's Domains; Told in the Hills; and Squaw Eloise.
Ryan, Patrich John
archbishop, was born Feb. 20, 1831, in Ireland. During the war he acted as chaplain to the Gratiot Street Military prison and hospital, and after the war was appointed rector of St. John's church. In 1872 he was consecrated bishop of St. Louis, and subsequently archbishop; and in 1884 was transferred to Philadelphia as its archbishop. He is the author of What Catholics do Not Believe; and Some of the Causes of Modern Religious Scepticism.
Ryan, Stephen Vincent
bishop, author, was born Jan. 1, 1825, in Ontario.
He was the Roman catholic bishop of Buffalo from 1860, and the author of The Claims of a Protestant Episcopal Bishop to Apostolical Succession and Valid Orders Disproved.
Ryan, Thomas
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 25, 1837, in Oxford, N. Y. In 1865 he moved to Kansas and settled in Topeka; was county attorney for eight years; and was assistant United States attorney from 1873 to 1877.
He was elected a representative from Kansas to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-sevenin, forty-eighth, forty-ninth and fiftieth congresses as a republican.
Ryan, Thomas F
capitalist, was born Oct. 17, 1851, in Blue Ridge, Va. In 1886 he joined hands with William C.
Whitney in securing and consolidating the various street surface railroads in New York, which now comprise the large system owned by the Metropolitan Traction company.
He is a director in the Southern railway, the Hocking Valley, the Flint and Pere Marquette and the Georgia Central railroads, the Metropolitan Traction company, the Consolidated Traction company, the Bank of New Amsterdam, and many other corporations of like nature. The success of his business career, culminating in a fortune estimated at several millions, is obviously due to indomitable will power, unrelenting perseverance and breadth of mental vision.
Ryan, William
farmer, merchant, congressman, was born in 1840 in Ireland.
He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1891 and 1892, and was elected as a democrat to the fifty-third congress.
Ryan, William Redmond
author, soldier, was born in England. He published Personal Adventures in California, which was illustrated from his own drawings, and contains many interesting details of early pioneer life in California.
Ryder, Albert Pinkham
artist, was born March 19, 1847, in New Bedford.
Among his works are Wandering Cow; Curfew Hour; Pegasus; Farm-Yard; The Waste of Waters Is Their Field; Little Maid of Arcady; Temple of the Mind; and Phantom Ship.
Ryder, Edgar L
lawyer, legislator, was born Feb. 13, 1860, in Sing Sing, N.
Y. He has become prominent as a lawyer, journalist, and writer on economic subjects. He has served as a member of the New York state assembly.
Ryder, James
educator, clergyman, college president, was born Oct. 8, 1800, in Ireland. In 1839 he became pastor of St. Mary's church, Philadelphia, and in the following year he took charge of a church in Frederick, Md., which he soon left to assume the presidency of Georgetown college. From 1843 till 1845 he was superior of the Jesuit order in the United States. In 1846 he became president of the college of the Holy Cross, which had been established three years before at Worcester, Mass. He died Jan. 12, 1860, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Ryder, Platt Powell
artist, was born June 11, 1821, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Among his genre paintings are Life's Evening; Spinning; An Interior; Farewell; Spinning-Wheel; Reading the Cup; Welcome Step (1883); Clean Shave; Washing-Day; Bill of Fare; Fireside; and Watching and Waiting. He was elected an associate of the National academy in 1868, and was also a founder of the Brooklyn Academy of Design.
Ryder, William Henry
clergyman, was born July 13, 1822, in Provincetown, Mass. He became pastor of the universalist church in Roxbury, Mass., where he remained ten years. He resigned this post to accept a call to St. Paul's church of Chicago, in 1860. He bequeathed more than half a million dollars to charitable, educational and religious institutions. He died March 8, 1888, in Chicago, Ill.
Ryerson, Martin
merchant, lawyer, jurist, was born in New Jersey. He was associate justice of the supreme court of New Jersey, and in 1874 was appointed one of the judges of the court organized in Washington for the purpose of adjudicating the Alabama claims. He died in June, 1875, in Newton, N. J.
Ryerson, Martin
merchant, was born Jan. 6, 1818. In 1839 Mr. Ryerson engaged with a merchant and lumberman of Muskegon, Mich., continuing with him for two years. Being impressed with the timber wealth of the country and its prospective profit, he bargained for his employer's interest in the saw mill and engaged in the manufacture of lumberat first upon a small scale.
The rise of western towns supplied him with an excellent market, and he gradually increased his facilities until the business eventually grew to be one of the largest of the kind in the west. He erected in Lincoln park, Chicago, a bronze group of statuary in memory of the Ottawa nation, for whom in his early life he had acquired a profound admiration. He died Sept. 6, 1887, in Boston, Mass.
Rylance, Joseph Hine
clergyman, author, was born June 16, 1826, in England. He is an episcopal clergyman of New York city, and rector of St. Mark's in the Bowery from 1871, and prominent among broad churchmen. He is the author of Preachers and Preaching; Essays on Miracles; Social Questions; and Pulpit Talks on Topics of the Time.
Ryland, John Edwin
lawyer, jurist, was born July 8, 1830, in Fayette, Mo. During 1862-65 he was circuit attorney of the sixth judicial circuit of Missouri, and subsequently he became judge of the criminal court of the fifteenth judicial district of Missouri.
Ryland, Robert
clergyman, college president, was born March 14, 1805, in King and Queen county, Va. In 1832 he took charge of the manual-labor school in Richmond, and when that school was chartered in 1844 as Richmond college hè was made its president, serving until 1866. For twenty-five years he acted as pastor of the First African Baptist church of Richmond, during which time he baptized into its fellowship nearly 4,000 persons. In 1868 he removed to Kentucky, where he has been engaged in the work of teaching and preaching..
Ryland, William Semple
clergyman, college president, was born June 4, 1836, in Richmond, Va. This eminent clergyman and educator has held chairs in the Female institute of Mississippi; and Lexington Female college of Kentucky, of which he became president. He is professor of natural science in Bethel college of Russellville, Ky., and has been its president since 1889.
Ryon, James
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Nov. 13, 1831, in Elkland, Pa. He was admitted to the bar in 1856, and in 1861 was elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature. He was elected president judge of Schuylkill county, and displayed high judicial management in the affairs of the bench.
Ryon, John W
lawyer, congressman, was born March 4, 1825, in Tioga county, Pa. He was district attorney of his native county from 1850 to 1856; and was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-sixth congress as a democrat.
Sabin, Alvah
clergyman, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 23, 1793, in Georgia, Vt. He served ten years in the Vermont state legislature; was secretary of state for Vermont in 1841, and was a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to 1857.
Sabin, Chauncey Brewer
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, was born Aug. 6, 1824, in Oneonta, N. Y. In 1873 he was elected a representative in the Texas state legislature, and in 1874 was appointed postmaster at Galveston, which office he held until 1883. In 1884 he was appointed United States district judge for the eastern district of Texas.
Sabin, David D
merchant, banker, legislator, was born Dec. 31, 1830, in Chenango, N. Y. He was a member of the Iowa state legislature from the fiftyninth district. He is a successful merchant and banker of Belvidere, Ill..
Sabin, Dwight May
soldier, manufacturer, state legislator, United States senator, was born April 25, 1844, in Marseilles, Ill. He moved to Minnesota in 1868 and in 1870 was elected a state senator, and was re-elected in 1871. He served several terms as a representative in the state legislature, became president of several large manufacturing companies, and was elected a United States senator from Minnesota for six years from March 4, 1883.
Sabin, Elijah Robinson
evangelist, author, was born Sept. 10, 1776, in Tolland, Conn. He was a methodist evangelist of New England, and the author of The Road to Happiness; and Charles Observator. He died May 4, 1818, in Augusta, Ga.