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Ryan, James – Rylance, Joseph Hine
Ryan, James
Roman catholic bishop, was born in 1848 in Ireland. After his ordination he was on the Kentucky mission for seven years, principally at Sf. Martin's, Meade county, and at Elizabethtown, Hardin county. He moved to the Peoria diocese in Illinois in 1878, and was appointed pastor at Wataga. 1888 he was nominated to the bishopric of Alton.
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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, 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, 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.
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.