William D. Ryan Biography - Grant County Wisconsin

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Submitted by David W. Taft, dtaft @ cowtown.net

History of Grant County Wisconsin
Western Historical Publishing, Chicago, July 1881
Town of Glen Haven, Biographical Sketches, Page 1025

WILLIAM D. RYAN, farmer, Sec. 15; P. O. North Andover.  The subject of this 
sketch is a native of Grant County, his father being one of the old settlers of' 
the State and a tiller of the soil.  He is a son of John and Deborah Ryan. Born 
in 1840, in the village of Cassville, but soon after crossed the beautiful 
Mississippi River into the fertile regions of Iowa, and located where the 
village of Guttenburg now stands, where he spent five years; then returned to 
Grant County, where they have since lived.  William is the youngest of three 
sons, who are the three leading farmers of the county in which they reside.  He 
married, in 1864, Mary Parker, a daughter of Patrick and Mary Parker, by whom he 
had six children - Allie, Francis R., Mary D., Julia E., Lo J.; his first wife 
died in 1875.  He married again in 1876, to Mary Power, a daughter of Patrick 
and Catharine Power, by whom he has three children - Elgie J., Glendora A., and 
an infant.  Has 170 acres of land, valued at $7,000.  Politics, Greenback.  Is a 
member of the Catholic Church; has been School Treasurer one term; has been 
appointed administrator for many valuable estates; is one of the many prosperous 
farmers and stock-raisers of Grant Co., Wis.