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 RUTLEDGE

RYAN

RUTLEDGE, John, Jr., representative, was born in Charleston, S.C, in 176G ; son of John Rut- ledge (q.v.), with whom he studied law. He was admitted to the bar ; practised in Charleston, and was a Federalist representative from South Carolina in the 5th, 6th and 7th congresses, serving from May 15, 1797, to March 3, 1803. He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 1, 1819.

RYAN, Abram Joseph, poet-priest, was born in Norfolk, Va., Aug. 15, 1839. He was ordained a R.C. priest in 1861, and served as chaplain in the Confederate army, 1861-65. He became priest in the archdiocese of New Orleans, La., in 1865, where he edited the Star, a Roman Catholic weekly; was transferred to Knoxville, Tenn., and subsequently to Augusta, Ga., where he founded and edited the Barmer of the South, a political and religious weekly. He was pastor of St. Mary's church in Mobile, Ala., 1868-80, traveling and lecturing to raise money for the catliedral in Mobile ; and in 1880 removed to Baltimore, Md., with the intention of making a lecture tour. He delivered his first lectui'e : " Some Aspects of Modern Civilization " in Balti- more, and in return for the hospitality he had enjoyed at Loyola college gave $300, the proceeds of a public reading, to the Jesuit fathers to found a medal for poetry in the college. His lecture tour not proving successful, and being in feeble health he received permission to retire from all parochial duty in October, 1881 ; settled in Biloxi, Miss. , and devoted himself to literary work. He is the author of : Poems, Patriotic, Religious and 3Iiscellaneous (1880), including: The Conquered Banner ; The Lost Cause ; TJie Sword of Lee ; The Flag of Erin, poems ; the epic, Tlieir Story Run- neth Thus, and at the time of his death he liad in preparation a Life of Christ. He died in Louis- ville, Ky., April 22, 1886.

RYAN, Edward George, jurist, was born at Newcastle House, county Meath, Ireland, Nov. 13, 1810. He was liberally educated ; began the study of theology, but abandoned it for that of the law, and immigrated to the United States in 1830, completing his law course in New York city, where he was admitted to the bar, 1836. In the same year he began practice in Chicago, 111. ; edited the Tribune, 1839-41, and practised in Racine, Wis., 1842-48. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention that assembled Oct. 5 and adjourned Dec. 16, 1846, and to the Democratic national convention that met at Baltimore, Md., May 22, 1848, and served as chairman of a special coinmittee of the Democra- tic state convention, 1862, that framed an address to the people, subsequently published as the "Ryan Address." He removed to Milwaukee in 1848 ; was city attorney, 1870-72 ; was appoint- ed chief justice of the supreme court of Wiscon-

sin to succeed Luther S. Dixon, June 17, 1874, and was elected to the office in April, 1875, serving until his death, which occurred in Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 19, 1880.

RYAN, James, R.C. bishop, was born in Thurles, county Tipperary, Ireland, June 17, 1848. He came to the United States at an early age ; prepared for the priesthood in the seminaries of St. Thomas and St. Joseph, Bardstown, Ky.; was ordained, Dec. 24, 1871, at Louisville, Ky.; was professor at St. Joseph's seminary, and subse- quently missionary pastor in Kentucky until 1878, and in Illinois, 1878-88. He was appointed bishop of Alton, III., and was consecrated May 1, 1888, by Bishop Spalding of Peoria, assisted by Bishops McCloskey and Janssen.

RYAN, John, Jesuit clergyman and educator, was born in Ireland, June 24, 1810. He was edu- cated in the Catholic schools of his native coun- try, at that time decried by the government, and determining to enter the priesthood, he came to America and joined the Society of Jesus at Bards- town, Ky., Sept. 7, 1839, where he served his no- vitiate and was ordained priest in 1845. He joined the Jesuit colony in New York city, where he helped to conduct the School of the H0I3' Name of Jesus, first in basements of churclies and then in a building on Third avenue between Elev- enth and Twelfth streets. He was the second president of the school, 1847-50, and having thi'ough strenuous efforts and against great oppo- sition secured a plot of ground on West Fifteenth street as the site for a Jesuit college, he was in- strumental in founding the College of St. Francis Xavier, opened in 1850, and he was the first pres- ident under the new name, 1849-55. He died in New York city in 1861.

RYAN, Patrick John, archbishop, was born in Thurles, county Tipperary, Ireland, Feb. 20, 1831 ; son of Jeremiah and Mary Ryan. He attended the Christian Brothers' school at Thurles ; a pri- vate school in Dublin until 1847 ; was graduated from Carlow college in 1852, and ordained sub- deacon, and in the same j^ear came to the United States. He was professor of English literature in Carondolet Theological seminary, St. Louis, Mo., 1852-53 ; ordained deacon in 1853. and priest, Sept. 8, 1853, by Archbishop Kenrick, being ap- pointed assistant rector of the St. Louis cathedral and seci'etary of the archbishop. In 1856 he was made rector, remaining in that position until 1860, when he assumed charge of the Parish, of the Annunciation in St. Louis, serving also dining the civil war as chaplain to the Gratiot Street Military prison and hospital, and declining a com- mission as chaplain in the army. After the war he was appointed rector of St. John's church. St Louis, and while on a visit in Europe, in 1867-68, at the invitation of Pope Pius IX., delivered in the