Bio of Ryan, Patrick Francis (b.1856) Wabasha Co., MN
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This bio comes from "HISTORY OF WABASHA COUNTY" 1884.
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Ryan, Patrick Francis, teacher, was born near Elmira, New York, October
18, 1856. His parents, Patrick C. and Johanna Ryan, were born in Limerick,
Ireland, and came to America in 1848. For several years the father was
employed in railroad construction, and settled in Greenfield township,
where he now resides, in 1857. The subject of this sketch received his
education in the common school in Greenfield and in the Wabasha city
schools. He has been employed on a steamboat, on river lumber fleets, and
on the railroad. During the winter of 1883-4 he had charge of the
Minneiska school, the term completing his thirty-sixth month of teaching.
He is highly regarded by school superintendents, and his services are in
great demand. For some time his home has been in Wabasha. He is a member
of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union, and has represented this county in
the state and national conventions of 1880. Mr. Ryan is a young man of
more than ordinary ability, and the writer is glad to note that his
talents are likely to be fully appreciated by his fellow-citizens.