RYDER, SYLVESTER

RYDER, CHAFFEE, MARTIN, DUNCAN

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Date: 10/4/2001 at 13:11:16

From the book "The History of Clinton County Iowa" by L. P. Allen (1879) Pages 669-697
Biographical Sketches of Clinton Residents

SYLVESTER RYDER, farmer, Sec. 1; P. 0. Clinton; was born in Ashtabula Co., Ohio, in 1823, residing and attending school there till about 12 years old, when his parents removed thence to Illinois; he remained there till 185o, in which year he came to Iowa, locating at Clinton. Mr. R. married, in 1850, before leaving Illinois, Miss Marcia A. Chaffee, a native of Vermont ; she came to Illinois with her parents, in 1839; they have six children-Lillian C. (now Mrs. Martin), Hattie A. (now Mrs. Duncan), Edmund S., Flora M., Chester and Barney W. Mr. R. has a fine farm of sixty acres; his occupation is that of horticulturist.