Background
Daniel J. Ryan was born January, 1855 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lived till age seven when his family moved to Portsmouth, Ohio.
Daniel J. Ryan was born January, 1855 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he lived till age seven when his family moved to Portsmouth, Ohio.
Graduate Portsmouth (Ohio) High School, 1875. Studied law, 1875-1877.
Admitted to bar Supreme Court of the Ohio, 1877. Practiced at Portsmouth. City solicitor, Portsmouth, 2 terms.
Member 66th and 67th General Assemblies, Ohio (speaker pro tem.
67th); 1st president Ohio Republican League, 2 terms. Temporary chairman 1st National Convention Republican Clubs, New York, 1887.
Secretary state of Ohio, 1888-1891. Executive commissioner Ohio at Chicago Exposition, and organized Ohio exhibit.
Member Executive Committee Association of America Exhibitors, 1893, and its commissioner to Antwerp Exposition, 1893.
Delegate from Ohio to Western Waterways Convention, Vicksburg. President Central Ohio Land Сompany. Vice president, trustee Ohio Archæol. and History Society.
Chairman Ohio Tax Commission, 1920-1921.
Author: A History of Ohio (with East. O. Randall), 5 volumes Arbitration Between Capital and Labor.
Article, “Ohio,” in Encyclopedia Americana. The Civil War Literature of Ohio.
Masters of Men; Ohio in Four Wars.
Historic Failures in Applied Socialism. Home: Columbus, Ohio
Member 66th and 67th General Assemblies, Ohio (speaker pro tem. 67th); Clubs, New York, 1887. Member Executive Committee Association of America Exhibitors, 1893, and its commissioner to Antwerp Exposition, 1893.
Married Myra L. Kerr, January 10, 1884.