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  WALTER CHISHOLM RANSON has in recent years been prominently identified with the allotment business in the Cleveland real estate field.  He is a man of wide and varied business experience in different lines and though a native of Cleveland has had his business headquarters and home at different cities throughout the eastern states.
     He has a number of notable Cleveland relationships in his family record.  His maternal grandfather, Capt. John Chisholm, came to Cleveland during the '40s, moving here from Nova Scotia.  He had been a captain on ocean vessels and for a number of years had charge of some of the Great Lakes boats.  In Cleveland he lived as a neighbor to the late Henry Chisholm, one of Cleveland's well known pioneers.  Captain Chisholm also built Great Lakes boats and assisted in constructing some of the first piling set in the Cleveland harbor.  He died when comparatively young.
     The paternal grandfather, Ranson, was an Englishman, and for many years served the East India Company and the Hudson's Bay Company.  He was one of the traveling agents of the latter corporation in Canada and acquired considerable property in America.  Many years ago he was owner of a tract of land at Council Bluffs, Iowa.  He sold 160 acres of this without his wife's signature to the deed, though she was still alive.  That has remained a flaw on the title of the property to the present time.
     The parents of Walter C. Ranson were Thomas W. and Eliza Jane (Chisholm) Ranson.  The former was born in England, and during early manhood had some experience in the English navy.  He came to Cleveland when about twenty years of age.  His wife was born in Nova Scotia and was brought to Cleveland at the age of seven years.  Thomas W. Ranson died at Cleveland Mar. 26, 1916, at the age of seventy-six and his wife passed away Nov. 30, 1917, aged seventy-eight.  They were married in Cleveland, and the father was for many years prominent in railroad work.  At one time he was superintendent of motive power for the old C. C. & I. Railway before it was acquired by the Big Four Systems.  He was also an employee of the Erie Railway.  In 1872 he patented an air brake and put it on the market under the firm name of the Gardner & Ranson Air Brake.  The rights were contested in an infringement suit brought by the Westinghouse people, and being defeated in a lower court Ranson and his partner never carried the matter to a higher tribunal and thus lost both the honor and the profit which would have been a proper reward to his genius.  After leaving railroading he was engaged in the manufacture of artificial ice machinery, as a member of the Arctic Ice Machinery Company at Cleveland and Canton.  He also had charge of the American Ice Company's plant at Baltimore and Washington.  About eight years before his death he retired from business.  He was affiliated with Iris Lodge No. 229, Free and Accepted Masons and of the Royal Arch Chapter.  He and his wife had four sons, three of whom are still living:  Albert V., of Pittsburgh; Dr. Thomas W., of Cleveland; Walter C.; and William T., who died at Cleveland when about twenty-five years of age.
     Walter C. Ranson spent most of his boyhood at Cleveland, attended public schools, and finished his education at Hornell, New York, where he graduated from his school in 1892.  His business experience began as storekeeper for the Erie Railway at Hornell, when he remained four years.  He then became a traveling salesman and represented different companies and different lines of goods for several years.  His next employment was as secretary and treasurer of the Conneaut Ice Company at Pittsburgh, and from there he returned to Cleveland in 1902.  For several years he was connected with the Frisbie Company, a real estate firm, credited with the distinction of having put on the market the first modern allotment in the Cleveland district.  Becoming dissatisfied with his business relations by that time, Mr. Ranson left them and for a time was superintendent of erection in contracting for pipe work for a mill construction and pipe work company.  Later he was salesman for The United States Mercantile Company, a rival of the Dun and Bradstreet mercantile agencies, and was manager of the Pittsburgh branch office.
     Returning to Cleveland in 1912 Mr. Ranson became local sales representative for The Schauffler Realty Company, and continued with taht firm until 1913, when he and W. Louis Rose, a fellow employee of the Schauffler interests established The R. & R. Realty Company with offices in the Park Building.  Messrs. Ranson and Rose have been responsible for the organization of several companies, including also the R. R. & P. P. Company, the R. & R. Brokerage Company, the R. R. Home Building Company, all of which have their offices in the Park Building.  Mr. Ranson is president of these organizations and Mr. Rose is secretary and treasurer.  They have dealt exclusively in allotments, and have specialized in the development and marketing of the Five Points allotment, one of the most interesting residence district developments in the manufacturing regions around Cleveland.
     Mr. Ranson volunteered his services during the Spanish-American war, but was disqualified since he was eight pounds under the physical weight requirements of the Government.  He was formerly a working member of the republican party but at present has no special interest in politics.  He is unmarried and has never sought membership in any clubs or lodges.
(Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - page
  HARVEY RICE had most of those attributes and accomplishments which in all times have been associated with the character of the gentleman.  He was a lawyer of rare ability, a keen business man, exemplified the vision and judgment of the statesman in the few years he spent in public office, and with all his practical interests he lived in close companionship with the deeper and finer things of life and the spiritual verities.
     He was born at Conway, Massachusetts, June 11, 1800, and died at Cleveland Nov. 7, 1891.  The name Rice is of Welsh origin.  He was descended from Edmund Rice, who brought his family from Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, to Massachusetts in 1638.  Among the descendants of Edmund was Cyrus Rice, who was the first white man to settle at Conway in 1762.  Stephen Rice, father of Harvey, married Lucy Baker, who died Aug. 2, 1804, when her son was four years old.  Of his father Harvey Rice wrote: "My father was a man of fine physical proportions and of great physical strength.  Though not highly educated he possessed a logical mind and rarely met his equal in debating a theological question.  As the grand object of life he never sought wealth, nor did he obtain it.  Yet he managed to live in comfortable circumstances and always sustained an irreproachable character.  He died in l850, in the eighty-third year of his age."
     Harvey Rice grew up surrounded by many of those influences winch produced the most stalwart characters of old New England.  He graduated from Williams College in 1824, and immediately set out for the Western Reserve of Ohio, reaching Cleveland Sept. 24, 1824.  While employed as a classical teacher and principal in the Cleveland Academy, he studied law in the office of Reuben Wood, afterward chief justice of the Supreme Court and governor of Ohio.  Later he studied law with Bellamy Storer at Cincinnati.  Harvey Rice and Miss Fannie Rice were married Sept. 27, 1828, at the home of her brother-in-law, Governor Wood.  She was a native of Sheldon, Vermont, and died in 1837.  In 1840 Harvey Rice married Emma Maria Wood, and they enjoyed a companionship of nearly fifty years.
     Harvey Rice was elected a member of the Legislature in 1830 and was appointed to the committee to effect the first revision of the state laws.  Toward the close of the session he was appointed sales agent for a large body of school lands of the Western Reserve, but in 1833 returned to Cleveland and was appointed clerk of the County Courts, holding that office seven years.
     The most memorable distinction associated with the name of Harvey Rice is that he was "father of the common school system of Ohio."  He was elected a member of the State Senate in 1851, and was chairman of the committee on schools, and as such drafted, reported and secured the passage of the school bill which was the first law in Ohio to make the common schools really free and public schools, supported by taxation instead of voluntary subscription and open to the children of the poorest as well as the richest.
     Harvey Rice lived a busy and productive life, though its record can not be told in terms of offices held or abnormal achievement and experience.  He was a member of innumerable boards and gave much of his time gratuitously to the administration and welfare of public institutions, was one of the early friends and stanchest supporters of the Western Reserve Historical Society, suggested the idea and was chairman of the committee which erected the statue of Commodore Perry in Cleveland, and was president of the Early Settlers Association of Cuyahoga County from 1879, the date of its organization, until his death.  Through this association he brought about the erection of the statue of Moses Cleaveland and delivered the memorial historical address upon the unveiling of the monument in 1888.  He was for many years one of the most influential alumni of Williams College and the dignified monument in Mission Park near the college grounds was donated by him as a memorial to the movement which led to the organization of the American Board of Foreign Missions.  As has been well said, Harvey Rice "enjoyed a serene, placid, domestic, social and literary life."   He lived constantly among books and literary associations, and himself wielded a very facile pen, producing several volumes of history, biography, poems and essays.  He is one of the best examples that can be recalled in Cleveland of a character that was as wise as it was useful, and was guided and inspired by high ideals as much as by practical purposes.
     Percival Wood Rice, son of Harvey Rice, was also an outstanding figure in Cleveland's life and affairs for many years.  He was born at Cleveland Nov. 27, 1829, and died in December, 1909, at the age of eighty years.  His father intended to give him a classical education. After his preparatory course a weakness of the eyes developed and he left school.  In 1850 he became private secretary to his uncle, Governor Reuben Wood, a position he retained under Governor Wood's successor, and enjoyed the rank of colonel on the governor's staff.  In 1853 he entered business at Cleveland under the firm name of Rice and Burnett, and with the exception of the period of the war continued active in business affairs until his retirement in 1889.
     At the first call for troops at the opening of the Civil war in 1861 the Light Artillery Company of Cleveland, with Mr. Rice as captain, volunteered its services and was attached to the Ohio Fourteenth Regiment under General Steedman in Western Virginia.  It is stated that this battery fired the first gun on the Union side at the battle of Philippi, West Virginia.  Later Captain Rice was under the command of General Lew Wallace.
     A number of those positions which involve heavy responsibilities without the honor and with none of the remuneration attaching to other places in the public service were held by Captain Rice.  He served as a trustee of the Cleveland Waterworks, for five years, was a member of the Board of Elections, and for twenty years was a trustee of the Society for Savings. In politics he voted as a democrat.  He was a member of the Light Artillery Association of Cleveland, of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, but on the social side was doubtless best known for his deep interest in water sports.  He was a great lover of the water and in his later years indulged in yachting and became one of the best known devotees of that sport on the Lower Lake.  He was a member of the Cleveland Yacht Club and held the rank of commodore.  He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
     Oct. 4, 1854, at Cleveland, Captain Rice married Mary (Triggs) Cutter, of Cleveland.  For his second wife he married Sarah Peck, of New Britain, Connecticut, on Oct. 20, 1864.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 557 - Vol.
  WALTER PERCIVAL RICE, only child of the late Captain Percival Wood Rice and Mary (Triggs) Cutter, and grandson of Hon. Harvey Rice, each of whom had a distinctive place in the history of Cleveland, as revealed in their biographies elsewhere, has found his career in the difficult and fascinating profession of civil engineering.  Mr. Rice is head of the Walter P. Rice Engineering Company of Cleveland, and as a civil and consulting engineer his attainments have a national recognition.
     He was born at Cleveland Sept. 2, 1855, and graduated with the degree Civil Engineer from Lehigh University at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with the class of 1876.  He has steadily practiced his profession for over forty years.  It has been a varied general practice, involving his services from bridge work to sanitary engineering, embracing also important harbor work.  At present he acts as consulting engineer on difficult foundations and other engineering construction.  At different times he has been employed in a public capacity.  He was assistant engineer on the old Superior Street viaduct, also connected with the Cleveland Highway Bridge Company, was at one time United States assistant engineer engaged in harbor work around Lake Erie, served two terms as city engineer of Cleveland, and one term as director of public works, and was also chief of engineers of the State of Ohio under Governor Hoadly, with the rank of colonel on the staff.  He has also served on national commissions of expert engineers.
     In these capacities and through his private practice Mr. Rice has been connected with some of the most conspicuous public improvements in this and other cities.  Among the very notable and original structures representing problems worked out by Mr. Rice as designing or consulting engineer might be evidenced the double revolving bridges at Columbus Street in Cleveland, the large Wheeling stone arch at Wheeling, West Virginia, and the large three-hinged concrete arch at Greenville, Ohio.  Mr. Rice introduced what was probably the most extensive application of Colonel Waring 's sewage purification method at East Cleveland, Ohio.  He also made the first serious attempt to investigate lake currents off Cleveland and study their bearing on sewage disposal and water supply intake, as a result of which he recommended an intercepting system of sewers.  His judgment on this matter was afterwards confirmed by investigation under the auspices of a board of national experts.
     Mr. Rice is a member of the Chi Phi college fraternity and has held the highest offices in his chapter.  He was one of the founders on Mar. 13, 1880, and is a past president of the Cleveland Engineering Society.  He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, member of the International Congresses on Navigation and of various other technical organizations.  As the son of a veteran soldier and officer, he is a member of the Loyal Legion, is an ex-member of the Cleveland Yacht Club, Golf Club and Locust Point Shooting Club.
     Sept. 2, 1903, at New York City, Mr. Rice married Margaret Anderson Barteau, of St. Paul, Minnesota.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 559 - Vol.
  FREDERIC PAYN ROOT, vice president of the wholesale dry goods house of the Root & McBride Company, of which his father, Ralph R. Root, elsewhere mentioned, was one of the founders, has had a typically successful business career and it can be described very briefly, since it is a record of a continuous connection from school days with the Root & McBride Company, with the increasing responsibilities that increasing experience and ability merited.
     The oldest of his father's children, he was born in Cleveland Aug. 28, 1865.  He was educated in private schools and is a graduate of the Brooks Military Academy of Cleveland.  From school he went immediately to the wholesale dry goods establishment of his father, and during the next few years there was not a single department or line of the work which escaped his experience.  His close and detailed knowledge of dry goods he has since used in many ways to promote the fortunes of the Root & McBride Company, which is the largest importer and jobber of dry goods in the State of Ohio.  When the business was incorporated a number of years ago, Mr. Root was made vice president, and has since retained that post, together with the office of a director.  He is also a director of the Union Commerce National Bank of Cleveland, and is a trustee of the Society for Savings.
     He is also a member of the Union Club, Country Club, Mayfield Country Club, Roadside Club, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, Civic League, City Club and Cleveland Automobile Club.
     Mr. Root married Mary Randall Crawford, who died Mar. 27, 1905, the mother of two sons. The older is Paul Crawford Root, now assistant general superintendent of the Cleveland-Akron Bag Company.  He married Eleanor H. Kingsbury, of Montclair, New Jersey, and they have one son, Paul Crawford Root, Jr.  The younger son, Ralph Randall, is now serving with the rank of first lieutenant in the aviation section of the United States army in France.  He married Anna R. Lincoln, of Cleveland, daughter of Dr. W. R. Lincoln.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 33 - Vol.
  PAUL CRAWFORD ROOT.   When Paul Crawford Root, assistant superintendent of the Cleveland-Akron Bag Company of Cleveland, Ohio, entered the above institution in August, 1914, he was made manager of the main plant at Fortieth Street and Perkins Avenue, known as the J. H. McBride plant.  Since then he has been promoted and is now assistant general superintendent of the company, which is one of the largest organizations of its kind in America, for the manufacture of all classes and kinds of bags, with plants at Cleveland and in a number of other cities.
     Mr. Root was born at Cleveland Nov. 7, 1891, son of Frederick Payn and Mary Randall (Crawford) Root.  His father, as is noted elsewhere, is vice president of the Root & McBride Company, one of the old established dry goods houses of Cleveland.  The mother died at Boston, Massachusetts, Mar. 27, 1905, and was laid to rest in the Lakeside Cemetery at Cleveland.  Her children were Paul Crawford and Ralph Randall Root, the latter now representing the family in France as a first lieutenant of the aviation corps of the United States Army.
     Paul Crawford Root was educated in the University School of Cleveland and at Hill School at Pottstown, Pennsylvania.  After two and a half years of preparation he entered Yale University, where he remained four years and graduated B. A.  He is a member of the Alpha Delta Phi of Yale University and is a member of the University Club, Country Club, Civic League and Second Presbyterian Church of Cleveland. He is a young man of many interests and finds recreation in golf and motoring.
     Both Mr. and Mrs. Root are prominent among the younger society circles of Cleveland.  Feb. 2, 1915, at Montclair, New Jersey, Mr. Root married Miss Eleanor Jessup Kingsbury, daughter of Frederick H. and Eliza (Beardsley) Kingsbury.  Her mother is now deceased.  Her father is connected with the Globe Indemnity Company of New York City.  Mrs. Root was born at Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was educated in Montclair Academy, the Kimberly School of Montclair, and at Sweetbrier College.  She is a member of the Woman's City Club of Cleveland.  They have one son, Paul, Jr., born here Mar. 16, 1916.
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 234 - Vol. III
  RALPH RANDOLPH ROOT exemplified in every detail the character of the old-time merchant.  He began in a humble role, pursued his ends with undeviating ambition and industry, was quick of perception, thorough in his execution, and was always guided by a spirit of integrity that ruled his every act and brought him not only material success but the esteem and admiration of his fellow men.  It is not too much to say that his work and his character constitute one of the cornerstones of the Root & McBride Company of today, one of the largest and best known of Cleveland's wholesale institutions.
     Ralph Randolph Root was born at Cooperstown, New York, Feb. 10, 1823, a son of Elias and Nancy (Sabin) Root.  He was about fifteen years old when his parents came to Cleveland, and he grew up in the city when it was still struggling in competition with many other thriving inland towns.  The education begun in public schools was continued at Oberlin College.  As a boy he learned the printer's trade, but did not follow it long as a vocation.
     About sixty or seventy years ago one of Cleveland's best known mercantile establishments was "the old city mill store," and it was here that the late Mr. Root acquired his first mercantile training as a clerk.  Not long afterwards his abilities had counted so rapidly in winning favor that the proprietor of the store, Mr. A. M. Perry, admitted him to a partnership in the new firm of A. M. Perry & Company. Still later this was succeeded by Morgan & Root, the principals being E. P. Morgan and R. R. RootLee McBride was the next partner admitted to the firm, and the name was then changed to Morgan, Root & Company.  Mr. Morgan retired in 1884, and the business was continued as Root & McBride Brothers, Lee McBride's brother John H. having entered the firm as junior partner.  From that time forward until his death, five years later, Mr. Root was senior partner, and the wisdom with which he directed the business effectively contributed to the wide and prosperous connections the firm had as retail merchants all over the Middle West.
     Mr. Root died in Cleveland in January, 1889.  In 1862 he married Miss Anna Y. Tubbs, who is still living in Cleveland.  She is a daughter of John M. TubbsMr. and Mrs. Root had four children: Frederic Payn Root, vice president of the Root & McBride Company ; Mary Loomis Root, wife of Frank Ely Abbott of Cleveland; Walter S., who is connected with the Root & McBride Company; and Cornelia W., wife of Frank H. Ginn, of Cleveland.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 32 - Vol. II
  VERNON C. ROWLAND, M. D.   Since his graduation from the Western Reserve Medical School in 1909, Doctor Rowland has been one of the very busy men in the medical profession at Cleveland.  During 1909-10 he served as house officer of Lakeside Hospital, and since establishing his private practice in 1911 has devoted practically all his time to the special field of internal medicine and diagnosis.  Doctor Rowland is one of the instructors at Western Reserve Medical College and professor of general pathology in Western Reserve University Dental College.  He is visiting physician to the medical dispensary of Lakeside Hospital, and is assistant visiting physician to St. Luke's Hospital, and visiting physician to the Rainbow Hospital.  Doctor Rowland's offices are in the Osborn Building.
     He represents an old and honored family of Stark County, Ohio, and was born at Canton Jan. 4, 1883, and his parents, Daniel C. and Mary (Zimmerman) Rowland, both reside in Canton.  The Rowland family has been in Stark County for a century or more, a land grant signed in person by President Madison having been handed down.  Doctor Rowland's great-grandparents of that name are both buried at Canton.  Doctor Rowland was one of two children, his younger sister being Mrs. E. W. Oldham of Canton.
     Doctor Rowland attended the public schools of Canton, graduating from high school in 1900. He received the degree Bachelor of Science and the degree Master of Arts from the Ohio Wesleyan University of Delaware in 1903 and 1904, respectively.  Thus he had a thorough literary education as the groundwork of his professional studies at Western Reserve.  He is a member of the honorary fraternity Phi Beta Kappa of Ohio Wesleyan and of the Alpha Omega honorary fraternity of Western Reserve Medical College.  He was president in 1916 of the Cleveland Chapter of the Alpha Omega.  Doctor Rowland is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine, Cleveland Medical Library Association, Ohio State Medical Society and the American Medical Association.  He also belongs to the Electric League, the Civic League of Cleveland, and politically is independent though a stanch supporter of the policies and ideals of President Wilson.
     At Canton, June 17, 1916, he married Miss Helen M. Aungst, daughter of Judge Maurice E. and Lucy (Pontius) Aungst.  Her father, who died in 1916, was for a number of years probate judge of Stark County.  Mrs. Rowland's grandfather died in 1918 at the age of eighty-three.  One of her ancestors was Simon Essig, founder of a prominent and well known family in Stark County.  Simon Essig, who died in that county in 1848, served in Washington's army during the Revolution and through him Mrs. Rowland is eligible to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.  The Essig family settled in Spring Township of Stark County in 1806.  Mrs. Rowland's mother, Lucy (Pontius) Aungst. who still lives in Canton, is a grandchild of Frederick Pontius, who came from Pennsylvania and settled in Stark County in 1816.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 542 - Vol. II

Not sure if this is William R. Ryan Sr. or Jr.
WILLIAM R. RYAN, SR.  was for many years a conspicuous figure in the political, business and civic life of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.  For ten years he was the recognized power behind the throne of the democratic party in the county, and also became known as "the father of Cleveland's summer resorts."
     He was born at Detroit, Michigan, June 21, 1855, and died Oct. 23, 1917, a son of Jerome and Loretta Ryan.  His parents were both natives of Ireland and died during the early boyhood of William R. Ryan, who grew up and was educated by an uncle, a stern school master of the old school.  He began his career humbly enough, but in a few years was managing a modest business of his own.  For a number of years he was a dealer in candy, cigars and tobacco, and also operated a drug store.  From these interests he became identified with the establishment and management of public amusement and resort places.  He organized and was the first president and manager of the Euclid Beach Park, Cleveland's most popular summer resort, and he also owned and operated Manhattan Beach and the White City Park in Cleveland.  For the last twenty years of his life he was one of Cleveland's leading real estate men, and during this time handled some of the largest real estate deals in the city.  He was an official appraiser of real estate, was a director in the State Banking and Trust Company, and his later years were burdened with heavy business responsibilities.  He is given credit for being the first man to predict that Cleveland would have a million people by 1920, a prediction which at the present time few would doubt the fulfillment.
     Early in his career he became interested in local democratic politics, and eventually was a figure of prominence in the state politics.  He served as justice of the peace from 1883 to 1886, having been elected at the age of twenty-five.  He was chief deputy sheriff of Cuyahoga County from 1887 to 1890 and was sheriff from 1891 to 1894.
     The late Mr. Ryan was a charter member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Catholic Mutual Benefit Association.  He was a member of St. Agnes Catholic Church.  In 1877 in Cleveland he married Catherine Murphy, daughter of Nicholas and Catherine Murphy.  They became the parents of nine children: Jerome A., who married Agnes O'Brien; Nicholas, Kathryn and Angela, all unmarried; William R., who married Louise Brotherton; Frances, wife of Howard Hall; J. Lee, who married Marian Fuller; Clara, who became the wife of John Cleary; and Eugene, unmarried.    
Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 167 - Vol. II
  WILLIAM RICHARD RYAN, JR., one of the younger members of the Cleveland bar, has already a well established position in his profession.  He is a son of the late William R. Ryan, elsewhere mentioned in this publication.
     He was born at Cleveland, Apr. 21, 1887, and had unusually liberal and thorough advantages in preparation for his profession.  He attended the Fairmount Grade School, the East High School, was a student of Denison University with the class of 1907, and too his law course at Notre Dame University, from which he graduated LL. B. in 1911.  He was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity at Denison University.  Mr. Ryan was prominent in college athletics.  While in the East High School at Cleveland he played as a member and was captain of the championship football and baseball teams, and for four years, from 1907 to 1911, was with the Notre Dame University baseball and football teams.  The followers of university sports need not be told that Notre Dame teams during those years stood in the front rank, and during one season at least its football team had no superior either east or west.
     Since coming out of university Mr. Ryan has been busily engaged with a growing law practice, with offices in the Society for Savings Building.  He is a member of the Catholic Church.  In politics he went with Roosevelt in the progressive campaign of 1912, and in that year was candidate for county recorder of Cuyahoga County.  He is a member of the Alpha Omega High School fraternity.  Oct. 3, 1912, at Cleveland, Mr. Ryan married Louise Alden Brotherton, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Brotherton of Cleveland.  She is a direct descendant of the famous John Alden of Mayflower and early Pilgrim history.  One of her grandmothers lived in the first frame building in Kansas City, Kansas.  Mr. and Mrs. Ryan have two children: Julia Louise and W. R. Ryan, third.

Source: History of Cleveland and its Environs - The Heart of New Connecticut - Publ. The Lewis Publishing Company - Chicago and New York - 1918 - Page 168 - Vol. II

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