Genesee-Bay County MI Archives Biographies.....Ryant, Daniel 1825 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

DANIEL RYANT. The gentleman who owns the farm on section 30, Flint Township,
Genesee County, was born in Otsego County, N. Y., January 17, 1825. He lived in
his native county until eighteen years of age and thence removed to Onondaga
County, which was his home for two years. Having imbibed the Bohemian spirit
from the unsettled condition of the country, August 2, 1845, he emigrated to
Genesee County, Mich. For a short time he was engaged in lumbering in Flint and
in Bay City and then was employed in his trade which was that of a blacksmith.
He continued to live in Flint until 1855, when he settled on the farm whereon he
now lives and since that time he has given his attention for the most part to
farming. Since 1876 our subject has laid aside the active labors of his hitherto
busy life, and retired to enjoy the comforts of his well-earned competency. He
cleared his farm and erected upon it a good class of buildings. His place
comprises one hundred and two acres of land, all of which is under cultivation
and which is highly productive. It has been made valuable besides by the
addition of tasteful and commodious buildings, there being a comfortable and
pleasing dwelling and good barns and outhouses.

  Our subject was married in Flint, Mich., August 1, 1847, to Miss Mary J. Link,
who was born in Mt. Morris, Genesee County, N. Y., December 5, 1833. Mr. and
Mrs. Ryant are the parents of one son—Francis—who married Miss Nancy Benson, of
Canada. He is a machinist by trade and occupation. Both our subject and his wife
are public-spirited people who are interested in all that promises to be for the
advancement of the locality in which they live. They are connected in their
church relations with the Methodist Episcopal body, in which he has filled
various offices.

  The original of our sketch is a son of William and Lydia (Alger) Ryant, the
former being a native of Dublin, Ireland, and the latter of New York State but
of Welsh ancestry; They lived the greater portion of their life in the Empire
State, the father passing away in the Catskill Mountains. The mother died in
Davison Township, Genesee County, this State. Daniel Ryant is one of four
children, there having been three daughters and one son; he is the third in
order of birth. The father of Mrs. Ryant was John Link. Her mother was Sarah B.
Stanard. They were the parents of nine children. They came to Genesee County in
1836. Politically our subject is a strong temperance man and shows his leaning
in this direction by his connection with the Prohibition party. They are an
excellent family, who are numbered among the best class of Flint's townspeople.


Additional Comments:

Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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