1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

DULUTH AND ST. LOUIS COUNTY 915
bear repetition. The history of the state of Minnesota would read very
differently to posterity were the records of the achievements of its notable
men eliminated, and it is but just that they should be put in enduring type.
In the great and representative county of St. Louis there are men of
mark who in various avenues of usefulness have won honors and emoluments
that entitle them to respectful admiration. Among them stands
James H. Ryan of Hibbing, a member of the transfer and fuel firm of
Ryan Brothers, comi)osed of James H. and Thomas F. Ryan.
James H. Ryan was born at Merrill, Michigan, October 13, 1879, one of
the nine children of Thomas B. and Sarah (Haley) Ryan, natives of
County Tipperary, Ireland, and Canada, respectively. Thomas B. Ryan
was reared in Ireland, and came to the United States when twenty-three
years of age, after having spent two years in Canada. He lived in the
farming regions of Michigan until within recent years, when he retired
from active life.
Growing up in Michigan, James H. Ryan was early taught to make
himself useful while he was acquiring an educational training in the common
schools. For three years he worked in the woods of Minnesota, and
in July, 1898, came to Hibbing, and three years later became a driller for
E. J. Longyear, and remained at that work for seven years. In the spring
of 1907 he, with his brother Joseph A., established his present transfer
business, and in 1913 the brothers branched out and added the handling of
fuel to their other occupation, and the firm is now engaged in both lines.
Joseph A. Ryan was the first of the Ryan brothers to come to the "Range"
country, and he died in the summer of 1918. Another brother, Tliomas
F. Ryan, is now the junior member of the firm.
James H. Ryan belongs to the Knights of Columbus, the Kiwanis Club,
and the Hibbing Park Board, being one of the representative men 'of
Hibbing, and one in whom his fellow citizens place implicit trust.
On September 11, 1912, he was united in marriage with Miss Bessie
B. Murphy, and they became the parents of the following children
Francis, Clarence, Russell and Edward. Mr. Ryan is always interested in
public matters, and especially those pertaining to the betterment of
Hibbing.
Albert E. Dyer. A long list of activities and associations make the
name of Albert E. Dyer one of consequence and significance in the life
anrl history of Hibbing. Mr. Dyer, who is a member of the firm Dyer
& Lindberg, real estate and insurance, was on the ground in this part of
the Iron Range and as a surveyor's helper ran some of the lines that
marked the original townsite of Hibbing. From that time to the present,
nearly thirty years, he has kept in touch with the local situation, and has
a host of friends all over the iron district.
Mr. Dyer is of English and Irish parentage, being a son of Samuel Ci.
and Letitia (Wright) Dyer. Mis father was brought from England and
his mother from Ireland when they were children, grew up and were
married at Toronto, Canada, and in early life Samuel d. Dver followed
the sea as a sailor. ;\bout 1877 he moved to Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan,
homesteaded a hundred and sixty acres, and was profitably engaged in
farming there until his death in 1917. He acfiuircd .\merican citizenship
by naturalization, and held a number of local offices in northern Michigan.
He is a member of the b'piscopal Church.
-Albert E. Dyer was born in Canada ( )ctol)er 31, 1872, being one of
nine children, seven of whom are still living. He was five years of age
when his parents moved to northern Michigan, and he grew up on the
homestead farm there and ac(|uired a public school education. In 189). at
the age of nineteen, he left the farm and came to Duluth. where he was
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