M. W. RYAN
                 West Lake, Calcasieu Par., LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 189.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


M. W. RYAN, West Lake.-M. W. Ryan is a native of Maine; born in Augusta, 1814
Ile is of Irish and English blood, his father having been a native of Ireland,
his mother of England. He was reared and educated in Philadelphia. While in
Philadelphia, Mr. Ryan learned the trade of machinist and engineer, and for many
years he followed this vocation. He served in the Confederate States army from
1861 until the close of the war. At the beginning of the war he raised two
companies, an infantry and a cavalry. He was made captain of the former, and his
company served gallantly during the whole of the struggle. Capt. Ryan is also a
veteran of the Mexican war, through the whole of which he served with Jefferson
Davis.