The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-10
William, Ryan, Veteran Newspaper Man, Dies Of Asthmatic-Heart Attack
Associated With Age-Herald for 22 Years He Was One of Most Widely Known News paper Men in South-Long Experience
 in Richmond and Washington.
By c. M. STANLEY

William Ryan, for the past 22 years
 associated with The ,Age-Heraid, died
 yesterday afternoon shortly after 1
 o'clock nt his rooms, e01 Twenty-first
 street, north.
 MT. Ryan had been in feeble health
 Tor several years, but the immediate e
 cause of death was heart failure, fol-
 lowing sn attack of asthma. He suf-
 fered the asthmatic attack Monday
 niSht, but during the evening was i-.
 cheerful humor and did not seem to
 regard it as any more severe than
 those to which he had become accu,- toned.
 The remains were removed yesterday
 to Loy's chapel and win be carried this
 morning to St Paurs church, where a
 low mass of requiem will be said over the body by the Rev. Father James F. Coyie at 10 o'clock. The body will then
 lie in state at the church until the fu- neral services, which will be conducted by Father Coyle at o'clock this after
 noon at St Pauls. Interment will be at Elmwood cemetery.
 MT. Ryan's brother, c. B. Ryan, will arrive from Norfolk over the Seahoard at TAO this afternoon.
 Active pallbearers have been selected
 from those who were for many years associated with MT. Ryan on the Age
 Herald and include E. w. Barrett, Paul Cook, c. M. Stanley, c. H. Mandy, J. l.. McRae, w. H. Jeffries, J. H. Kenny
 brook and r. c. Goode.
 He is survived by one brother, C. B.
 Ryan of Norfolk, Va, general passen-
 ger agent of the Seaboard Air Line, and
 two sisters, Mrs. Mary R. Quarles of
 New York and Mrs. Baurman of Chi
 Mr. Ryan al at ha
 time of his death He had never mar
 ried.
 His death removes one of the best
 known and ablest newspaper men of
 the south. His newspaper and other
 activities covered wide range and his
 breadth of information was such that
 he made himself felt In every undertak-
 ing in which he embarked.
 BORN IN KENTUCKY
 He was born in Maysville Ky. April 3, 1851. He was the son of Michael and Maria Louisa Richeson Ryan. Ed ucated in the private schools of Mays vile. he went into newspaper work early in life on the papers of Cincinnati and Richmond. He was president of the Daily State of Richmond from 1889 to 1893, and in the latter year was ap- pointed internal revenue collector at Richmond by President Cleveland serv- ing four years in this capacity. While in Richmond he did extensive newspa- per correspondence, particularly for the New York Herald and the New York Sun. For several years he was also stationed in Washington, where he represented some of the leading eastern papers as correspondent.
 In 1898 he removed to Birmingham,
 and for a few months served secre- tary of the old Commercial club. It
 was during this year that he became
 associated with The Age Herald, first as a reporter. He later became cit editor and then managing editor, which position he filled for several years. During the past eight or ten years however, he had served as one of The Age Herald's editorial writers. WIDE INFORMATION Before his health began to faiL the breadth of MT. Ryan's information was a source of constant wonder and ad- miration among his associates and those who knew him best. When he was actively connected with the news department no one was better inform ed on the details of the industrial situa- tion: DO one knew personally more of the industrial leaders of the south, and no one had better grasp of business conditions. Coupled with this unusual interest in business affairs, MT. Ryan was regarded as perhaps the best mu sic critic in the south. He knew music