Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Thomas Henry Ryan and Harriet Marsh


Husband Thomas Henry Ryan 1 

            AKA: William Herman Davis 2
           Born: 26 Aug 1841 - County Limerick, Ireland 1
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           Died: Aft 1913
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         Father: John Ryan (1807-Abt 1875) 3
         Mother: Mary Maguinn (1813-1889) 1


       Marriage: 3 Jun 1866 4

Wife Harriet Marsh 2 5 

           Born: 14 May 1842 - Rockingham, Windham Co, VT 1
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           Died: 7 Jun 1904 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Father: Charles Pierce Marsh (1820-1892/1900) 2 6
         Mother: Celina Thayer Locke (1822-1864) 2 6


Children
1 F Catherine "Kate" Ryan 5 

           Born: 21 Apr 1867 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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2  M  Benton Charles Ryan 5





           Born: 17 Aug 1868 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Agnes Marr (      -1894) 5
           Marr: 14 Jun 1893 4



         Spouse: Margaret McCarthy (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 11 Oct 1899 4






3  F  Josephine Ryan 5





           Born: 16 May 1871 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Ralph P. Yerdon (      -      ) 5
           Marr: 21 Aug 1895 4






4  F  Myra Ryan 5





           Born: 23 Mar 1873 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: John K. Morrison (      -      ) 5






5  M  Edmund Locke Ryan 5





           Born: 18 Feb 1875 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Della Hicks (      -      ) 5



         Spouse: Lillian May Patterson (      -      ) 5






6  F  Ruth Ryan 5





           Born: Mar 1877 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 5
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           Died: 1880 5
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         Spouse: Did Not Marry






7  F  Mary Louise Ryan 7





           Born: 17 Jan 1879 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Roy Carleton Gifford (1878-      ) 7 8






8  F  Harriet Marsh Ryan 5





           Born: 7 Oct 1881 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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         Spouse: Ralph Corwin Gleason (1874-      ) 9 10
           Marr: 28 Jun 1905 1






9  F  Florence Ryan 5





           Born: 29 Nov 1883 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 5
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           Died: 31 Mar 1901 4
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10  F  Jane "Jennie" Ryan 5





           Born: 15 Aug 1887 - Kane, McKean Co, PA 1
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General Notes: Husband - Thomas Henry Ryan




At the age of seventeen he left home in Canada, and, coming to the United States, he enlisted in the "Bucktail" regiment, officially the Forty-Second Pennsylvania Reserves, and served in the Civil war for three years. At the battle of Antietam, he was severely wounded in the shoulder.
He later resided at Kane, McKean County, Pennslvania; he was an oil producer.

He was born on the Browning estate nine miles from the city of Limerick, Ireland. He was six years old when his parents emigrated to Canada, settling at Lundy's Lane, thence at Robinson's Road, two and a half miles from Dunville. Here he attended the public school. His father then moved around, living in different places, finally settling at Guelph in the province of Ontario in 1858. Thomas H. received little more schooling, but early became a worker on his father's farm. Later he went to St. Mary's, Canada, and began driving a team for a contractor, who was constructing a section of the Grand Trunk railroad. He remained with him until 1859, when he came to the United States, settling at Brandy Camp, Elk County, Pennsylvania, where he drove a team until April 19, 1861, when he enlisted in Company G of the Pennsylvania "Bucktail" Regiment, serving three years. He saw hard service, was wounded at Antietam, September 16, 1862, and again at Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. He was honorably discharged and mustered out July 11, 1864.
After his war experience he returned to Brandy Camp, where until the autumn of 1864 he was in charge of the farm of Mrs. B. P. Little. He then during the winter of 1864-65, was employed skidding logs for Chauncey Brockway. In the spring of 1865 he was rafting on the river and worked in the saw mills until August of that year. He then entered the oil fields, working in Titusville and through the Venango field, finally in September, 1865, settling in Kane, which was for many years his home. For a time he was in the employ of General Kane, and in 1868 entered the service of the Pennsylvania railroad, continuing with them eighteen and a half years. From 1893 until 1903 he was superintendent in charge of the McKean county poor farm, a period of about nine years that he was away from Kane. In the meantime he had secured oil leases and after leaving the superintendency devoted himself to oil production, in which he was very successful. He was an independent Republican; was township treasurer for several years and for two years councilman of Kane. He was an attendant of the Episcopal church. At one time he was an member of the Union League Club of Philadelphia, and a member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He stood high in the Masonic order; was past worshipful master of Kane Lodge, No. 566, Free and Accepted Masons, having been made a Mason at Smethport in McKean Lodge, No. 388, in 1868. He was a companion of Kane Chapter, No. 279, Royal Arch Masons; a knight of Trinity Commandery, No. 58, of Bradford, Knights Templar, and in the Scottish Rite he belonged to Presque Isle Lodge of Perfection at Erie, Pennsylvania, and to Coudersport Consistory, holding the thirty-second degree. [GPHAV, 219]



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Sources






1
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121.

2
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 229.

3
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121, 219.

4
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 220.

5
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121, 220.

6
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 121, 228, 235.

7
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 89, 121, 220.

8
—, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 428.

9
—, History of the Counties of McKean, Elk, and Forest, Pennsylvania (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 430.

10
John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 120, 220.







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