Northumberland-Tioga County PA Archives Biographies.....Ryon, William W. 1847 - living in 1899

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WILLIAM W. RYON, a prominent and successful attorney of Shamokin, who is

interested in several of that town's most important commercial and manufacturing

enterprises, was born in Lawrence township, Tioga County, this state, April 29,

1857. He is a son of George L. and Hannah (Hammond) Ryon, and a brother of

George W. Ryon, also a prominent attorney of Shamokin, whose sketch appears

elsewhere in this volume.



  Our subject was reared in the township in which he was born and was educated

in the common schools of Tioga County and at the Mansfield (Pa.) State Normal

School, from which he graduated in June, 1874. Soon after his graduation Mr.

Ryon entered the office of his brother George W., in Shamokin, and read law,

being admitted to the bar of Northumberland County in March, 1878. For a short

time he practiced his profession, which he practically abandoned to accept an

appointment as a deputy sheriff by Sheriff William M. Weaver, under whom he

served three years, continuing in the position for three months longer under Mr.

Weaver's successor in office, John C. Morgan. Retiring from the sheriff's office

Mr. Ryon resumed the practice of his profession and subsequently was admitted to

practice in the Supreme and the Superior courts of this state.



  Mr. Ryon is a director in the Shamokin Street Railway Company, of which he was

one of the original holders of stock. He is president of the Shamokin Valley

Telephone Company, of which he was one of the organizers. He also is a director

in the Shamokin Silk Throwing Company, which was incorporated in December, 1898.

Our subject is attorney for the First National Bank of Shamokin and also

attorney for the Union and Home Building & Loan Associations, of which he was

one of the original promoters. He is a leading member of the Shamokin Board of

Trade, having been connected with the organization since its inception.



  In 1892 Mr. Ryon was united in matrimony to Sue May, daughter of Isaac May, of

Shamokin, and to them have been born two children, Charles A., born November 10,

1884, and now attending the Georgetown College, at Georgetown, D. C., and Mary

M., born June 29, 1892.



Politically Mr. Ryon is an active and influential Democrat. He is a leading

member of St. Edward's Roman Catholic Church, of Shamokin.





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Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District

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Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)



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