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When a lad eight years of age, J.P. Ryan was brought to Muscatine. That was in the fall of 1850. Late in 1848 the family had left Ireland because of the famine. In Muscatine Father Ryan attended the private and public schools. At the age of fifteen he went to St. Mary’s Seminary of Barrens, Perryville, Missouri. Next we find him in St. Thomas Seminary, near Bardstown, Kentucky. On December 22, 1867, Father Ryan was ordained, and for the Louisville Diocese. Before coming to Davenport he labored in his own diocese and later with the Paulist …
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 Monsignor Ryan Reared in St. Matthias |
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… Fathers, and finally in the Archdiocese of St. Paul. In 1885 Bishop Cosgrove invited him to come to the Diocese of Davenport. From 1885 to 1919, except for a few months when he was at the Cathedral, he was pastor of St. Mary’s, Davenport. On October 17, 1909, he was made a Protonotary Apostolic with title of Monsignor. A heavy pall of mourning covered his parish on the day of his death, October 21, 1919.
 Monsignor Linnenkamp |
We have been told by some older members of the parish that the late Monsignor Christopher Linnenkamp, of the Diocese of St. Joseph, Missouri, was for a time a member of this parish. His death occurred in that diocese several years ago.