San Diego County Biographies
 
JOHN F. RYAN

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an artisan in his profession, who has a well stocked salesroom at 1334 D street, 
San Diego, was born in New York city in May, 1855, his parents being natives of 
Tipperary, Ireland. His father was a tailor, so that John F. came naturally by 
his profession. They moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and there John learned his trade. 
In 1879 he went to Chicago as a journeyman and came to California in 1881. After 
one year at San Francisco and three at Salinas, Monterey County, he came to San 
Diego in 1886, commencing business in a small way with very limited resources 
and gradually working up to his present stock and business, employing from four 
to eight hands and carrying a stock valued at about $2,500. He caters 
exclusively to a fine class of work and carries mainly imported cloths.
        Mr. Ryan was married at Cleveland, Ohio, in February, 1879, to Miss 
Catherine Dolen and the union has been blessed by four children, all of whom are 
living and at home.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  373-374