Ryan, George d. 1905

RYAN, PORTER

Posted By: Barbara Hug (email)
Date: 11/27/2004 at 18:52:54

George Ryan, the eldest member of the Ryan family, dropped dead in Colfax this morning. He had charge of sales at No. 6 mine of the Colfax Consolidated Coal Co., and was going to take an early interurban train for Des Moines and took a short cut from the office to the station. He was troubled with asthma and evidently stopped to get his breath sitting down on a pile of telegraph poles.

When the railroad workmen went to work this morning Mr. Ryan was found lying on his face as he had fallen. It is supposed that death was the result of heart failure or apoplexy.

The funeral will be held from the residence of his brother, the late Judge Ryan, in Des Moines tomorrow afternoon at three o’clock.

George Ryan was a member of the Ryan family of Prairie City. After the death of the father he owned and operated the farm where the family had lived.

About twenty-five years ago he sold it and with Alfred Porter, his brother-in-law, who is also a brother-in-law of Congressman Hull of Des Moines, operated a large stock farm near Prairie City until about ten years ago when he moved to Colfax to take a position with the coal company of which Judge Ryan was a large stockholder. The wife died about eight years ago. There were no children. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, Saturday, July 22, 1905, Page 1, Column 2
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Prairie City (IA) News, 1905

George Ryan died in 1905, at the home of his brother, the late Judge Ryan.

His wife died about eight years ago, and they had no children.

Mr. Alfred is his brother-in-law.

Burial in Des Moines.