Cook County IL Archives Obituaries.....Ryan, Edmond Ezra January 29, 1883
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Capt. Edward (really Edmond) E. Ryan, who was a so long the senior member of 
the well-known insurance company of E. E. Ryan and Co., No. 210 LaSalle Street, 
died at 10:30 o' clock yesterday (died 29, 1883 of TB)morning at his temporary 
residence, No. 402 Washington Boulevard. The funeral will take place at 10 
o'clock this morning, the services to be held in st. Patrick's Catholic Church, 
corner of Adams and Desplaines Streets.

Capt. Ryan was 49 years old, having been born in Philadelphia on Christmas Day 
of 1833 (Actually born the 20th of Dec according to his birth certificate). He 
came West about twenty-five years ago, and when the War broke out enlisted in 
Company A of the Seventeenth Illinois Ingfantry Volunteers. While serving in 
Missouri as a dispatch-bearer he was captured and sentenced to be shot, but 
managed to escape before the time came for that univiting ceremony. He 
afterwards became a Lieutenant in the Seventeenth Illinois, and about the time 
of Sherman's march to the sea was taken prisoner in Georgia while acting 
Captain of his company. He was confined for several months in Andersonville 
prison, and he never recovered from the revages which that vile place made upon 
his system. Upon the close of the War Capt. Ryan engaged in the insurance 
business in Chicago with ex-Gov. F. H. Hoffman, now of Wisconsin. The business 
he thus founded is till continued under the name of E. E. Ryan & Co., although 
Capt. Ryan severed his connection with the firm last August, owing to his 
rapidly failing heath. Capt. Ryan enjoyed a National reputation as a successful 
underwriter, and was noted for his great force of character as well as his 
genial and generous heartd disposition. Though a sufferer for years, he made a 
gallant struggle for life, and retained hsi remarkable clearness of intellect 
to the last. Some years ago he resided in Hyde Park, where he took an active 
interest in local affairs, serving as a member of the Board of Village 
Trustees, and also  Water Commissioner. He was the leading spirit in the 
organization of the Union Catholic Library of Chicago, and wa s prominent in 
church and Sunday school work, while in business relations he was distinguished 
for enterprise, sagacity, and strict honesty. He leaves a wido (Elizabeth nee 
Williams) and two children -a boy aged 13(Edwin Colburn Ryan) and a girl aged 7 
years(Bertha Ryan).

Messrs. S. S. Cunninghan, John Naghton, John Cameron, Charles H. Ferguson, 
Holger de Rhoode, and Alex D. Kennedy will act as pall bearers at the funeral

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