Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-09
FIRST WOMAN CITIZEN
HER STURDY LADS AND CLEVER
LAssEs BECOME PROMINENT
CITIZENS.

Anown as the "Widow Ryan" = Was
Clever Business Woman Short
sketch of Her Life and What Some Of
Her Children Accomplished.
From the Ners, INDIANAPOLIS Ind.
!: hundreds of thousands of men of for
ing ing their citizenship in Indiana since that
S S5a1e was admitted into the Union in
1910 without creating remark or COM
ment. 1t was different matter, how
ever, when along in the forties the first
woman of foreign birth applied for and
RECEIVED &c papers of citizenship.
Inc 'hrst woman citizen" was an Irish
w!doW who settled in southern Indiana
Wltn her progeny of sturdy lads and
SleVer lasses upon farm which she had
Dought She had taken out naturalization
Papers IN order to manage her property to
Detter advantage, and for the further pur-
pose OF starting her family as true Ameri-
Vantages and responsibilities of American
citizenship
The Widow Ryan," as she was known
In Daviess County, Indiana, was a great
woman with a clever business head and
left behind her those who grew to be
worthy men and worthy women, and who
nave left thef impress upon the State.
One of these sons, James B. Ryan, be-
came Treasurer of the State of Indiana,
ana son-lnelaw, Nj. l.. Brett, also held
That high and honorable position Another
son was the late Lieut.. Col. Richard J.
Ryan, who was probably the most brill
liant and gifted orator that Indiana ever
the Union served his country in the Thir-
ty-hfth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, bet
ter known as ''the Irish Regiment"
Another son is Thomas +. Ryan, who
is now 81 years old, and with few inter-
yals OF absence has been a resident of In
annapolis for forty-two years. Mr.. Ryan
mas been an active business man all his
life and has seen more than one fortune
come and go in the vicissitudes of trade
and sudden panic.
In the early fifties, smitten by the gold
fever, he went by way of the Isthmus of
Panama to California, and he has always
retained the free-hearted, open and trust
ing confidence that distinguished the gal
liant pioneers of the golden State. He has
been engaged in mining and trade opera
tons in Oregon, Arizona and Montana
From May, 1885, until August, 1887, he
was the government agent at the Seal
Islands off the Alaska coast, highly re-
sponsible position.
"For ten years or more" said Mr. Ryan,
in conversation with group of gentle
men at the Indianapolis Board of Trade,
II have been sensitive in my lower limbs
to weather changes. If my legs had been
filled with quicksilver l do not think they
could have responded more quickly or
more disagreeably to climatic conditions.
During the past two years this infrm-
ity became much worse, and l began to
be alarmed, fearing paralysis My legs
We're cold and recently from my knees
down were without sensation. | could
walk only short distances and would even
then experience great WEAKNESS. l be-
came more and more alarmed. | natural
ly thought of paralysis or locomotor
ataxia. The prospect was not pleasing.
Il happened to meet my ola friend
Capt G. +. Shepard, of this city. He was
chanting the praises of Dr. Williams
Pink Pills for Pale People and gave me
his experience, telling me that he had
been brought by using them from bed
where he lay helpless, his physician hav-
ing declared him a hopeless victim Of
as any man of his age, not even requiring
the use of cane. Upon his recommends
ton | began the use of DR.. Williams
Pink Pills.
81 found positive relief, after taking a
few doses. The numbness in my limbs
disappeared as if by magic, and / can
walk as far as | like at good rapid gait
and without WEAKNESS This you may
understand is a great boon to a man who
has been of an active habit of life, and
who still likes to depend to great extent
upon his legs to get around in the world.
''The pills also drove the rheumatism
out of my hip, for have not been bother
ed with it since began their use. think
l shall have to join Captain Shepard in
his praises of Dr. Williams Pink Pills
for Pale People,
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale Peo-
pie contain, in condensed form, all the
elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood and restore shatter-
ed nerves These pills are sold in boxes
(never in loose bulk) at so cents box or
six boxes for $3.50, and may be had of all
druggists, or direct by mail from DR..
Williams Medicine Company, Science
tady, N. Y.
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