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Sangamon County Biographies
R Surnames
FATHER D. J. RYAN
Father D. J. Ryan, Illinois, was born in Peoria, Peoria County, Illinois, on the 3rd day of August 1852. Son of William and Margaret (Keller) Ryan, natives of Ireland; father emigrating in 1847 and mother in 1850,. and were married in 1851. There was born to them a family of eight children, seven sons and one daughter, all of whom are living. His father died June 9, 1880, at the age of sixty-four. When the subject of this sketch was two years old, his parents moved to Marshall county, where he remained on a farm until he was thirteen years of age, when he went to La Salle, where he commenced his preparatory studies, and remained there about a year and a half. Thence went to Niagara Falls. New York where he finished his classical and divinity studies. In 1876. he commenced his first mission, at Grafton, Illinois, where he remained one year, and in the fall of 1876, came to Auburn, Illinois, where he has the charge of Auburn, Sugar Creek and Christian county congregations. ["History of Auburn" by the Auburn Historical Society, unknown date, though it is noted that the biography is "as of" 1881 - Sub. by K.T.]
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