Title: Edward G. Ryan Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1815-1902

Creator:

• Ryan, Edward G. (Edward George), 1810-1880

Call Number: Wis Mss HE

Quantity: 0.2 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers of Judge Edward G. Ryan, chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, 1874-1880, including certificates and appointments, some drafts of his letters and a small amount of correspondence, poems, religious articles, and addresses.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-wis000he

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These papers consist of a number of official documents--birth certificates, citizenship papers, commissions, etc.; a small amount of correspondence, principally of the years 1875-1880; a considerable number of manuscript speeches, poems, and articles on various subjects; and a few legal decisions. There is, in addition, a letter from Ryan's son, Hugh Ryan, dated 1902, regarding his father's papers and giving some biographical information on him. There are some newspapers of the fifties giving accounts of cases in which Judge Ryan was interested and a few pamphlets.

For a biography of Judge Ryan see Wisconsin Historical Society Collections, 9:452-53. For a 1915 obituary from the Milwaukee Journal of his son, Hugh Ryan, see “Wisconsin Necrology,” 14:242, in the Historical Society Library.

Acquisition Information

Presented by the estate of Hugh Ryan via Supreme Court Justice M. B. Rosenberry, May 21, 1931.