Solano County Biographies

A. P. RYERSON

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives
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(deceased) was born in Patterson, New Jersey, December 11, 1822. When about 
thirteen years of age he went to New York and there learned his trade of 
silversmith, which he followed up to 1849, when he came to California passing 
his first year in Los Angeles.  In 1850 he made a trip back to New York but 
returned in the same year and settled in Benicia where he conducted a hotel, and 
in 1855 settled on his present farm where great improvements have been made.  
Situated on the farm is what is known as the Ryerson Cotton-wood Grove covering 
ten acres of land, one of the few clusters of trees to be found in the township 
of Benicia.  The trees are raised from seeds planted by Mr. Ryerson in the year 
1858.  The residence is situated midway between Vallejo and Benicia, and was up 
to his death on June 17, 1874, kept as a place of entertainment by Mr. Ryerson.  
He married at Benicia, Esther Bower, on March 1, 1855, by whom there is a large 
family, viz.:  Henrietta, Isaac, Adrian, Virginia, Alice, George L., Clara M., 
Joseph G. and Anna Rebecca, who are now alive.  Mrs. Ryerson resides on the 
farm.
 
History of Solano County � San Francisco, Cal. - Wood, Alley  & Co., East 
Oakland, pub 1879, pp  449