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1918
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
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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. Root. Lee 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.
Tubbs. Mr. 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 |
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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 |
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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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