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JOHN M. RYAN
JOHN M. RYAN, resident
partner and manager of the dry-goods house of J. M. Ryan & Co., of Stockton,
was born in Princeton, Indiana, June 20, 1860, a son of John M. and Ellen
(Little) Ryan. The father, born in Dublin, Ireland, November 1, 1826, received
a good education and learned the trade of cooper. He emigrated to America in
1849, and settled in Princeton, Indiana, where he was engaged in business as a
manufacturing cooper for about twenty years, and is now book-keeper and cashier
for J. M. Ryan & Co. The mother, born in South Carolina, a daughter of
James Little, and his wife (nee Ervin) came with them to Indiana, where
she was married about 1855. She died in March, 1867, leaving four children, all
now living: Robert Ervin, a dry-goods merchant of Mount Vernon, Illinois; James
Little, of Indianopolis (sic); the subject of this sketch; Margaret, their only
sister, residing in Stockton.
Grandfather Richard Ryan, a merchant in
Dublin, was over seventy at his death, but his wife (by birth Margaret Power)
died comparatively young. Great-grandfather Ryan was a great traveler and lived
to an advanced age. A maternal uncle of the subject of this sketch, James
Little, a planter or farmer in Chester district, South Carolina, is living,
aged about seventy-three.
The subject of this sketch was educated in
the district and high schools of Princeton, Indiana, and went into a dry-goods
store of his native town at the age of sixteen, as clerk, remaining one year.
He then went to Evansville, Indiana, where he engaged in the same line nine
years, and at the age of twenty-six he came to Stockton. Here he spent nearly three
years in the store of Hale & Co., and in 1889 established the present firm
of J. M. Ryan & Co., in which A. M. D. McIntosh, of Douglass Township,
represents the company, and Mr. Ryan is the managing partner.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County,
California, Pages 536-537. Lewis Pub.
Co. Chicago, Illinois 1890.
© 2009 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
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