BIO: James G. Ryan, Mercer Co, KY

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Contributed by: Diana Flynn "ivie@tima.com"
USGW Kentucky Archives, 31 Aug 1998
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RYAN   GRAYHAM   SURBER

Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical.
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 316

JAMES G. RYAN, farmer, was born in Mercer County, Ky., October 11, 1836, and
is the fifth child in a family of eight children born to Patrick D. and
Permelia A. (Grayham) Ryan, the former a native of the "Old Dominion," and the
latter of Kentucky.  They were of Irish and English descent respectively.
Patrick D. Ryan received his education in his native State.  In early life, he
removed with his parents to Kentucky, where he was afterward married, and
where for twenty years he followed teaming, from Louisville to various points
in Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia.  He then engaged in agricultural
pursuits, and followed the same in Oldham and Jefferson Counties, Ky., until
his death, which occurred June 4, 1852.  James G. Ryan, the subject, received
an ordinary education in the common schools of Kentucky and Indiana.  In
November, 1852, the family came to Adams Township, Morgan Co., Ind., where
they rented a farm and engaged in agricultural pursuits.  Our subject remained
at home until he was nineteen years old, after which he was employed as a
laborer on a farm for some three years.  In July, 1861, he enlisted in Company
B, Twenty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, afterward known as the First
Indiana Heavy Artillery.  He served with that regiment in all its marches and
engagements until April, 1862, when he was discharged by reason of
disabilities at Ship Island.  October 23, 1863, he enlisted in Company D, One
Hund- red and Seventeenth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, recruited for the six
months service, and served until the expiration of their term of service,
being mustered out with the regiment in April, 1864.  October 25, 1864, he
again enlisted in Company H, Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and
served with that regiment in all its marches and engagements until the close
of the war, being mustered out with the regiment at Dalton, Ga., June 23,
1865.  After his re- turn from the army he engaged in agricultural pursuits,
and has been so em- ployed ever since in Adams Township, Morgan County, with
the exception of two years, from 1867 to 1869, when he resided in Illinois.
For the past three or four years, he has been employed part of the time at
blacksmithing. He was married, July 17, 1859, to Marticia Surber, a native of
Adams Township, Morgan Co., Ind.  One daughter has blessed their union --
Luena G.  In politics, he is a Republican.

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