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Charles Henry Eighmey
Jesse P. Farley
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Henry Gehrig
A. P. Gibbs
Theodor Goerdt
John R. Goldthorp
Honorable Julius Graves
Charles H. Gregoire
Ezra Gregory
Daniel Hallahan
Nicholas Hansen
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Henry Henkels
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Nancy R. Hill, M. D.
Asa Horr, M. D.
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Edward R. Jackson, M. D.
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Henry J. Jecklin
Reverend Clement Johannes
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Joseph K. Kaufmann
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Paul Lattner
Honorable Wendelin Lattner
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Norton J. Loomis
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W. A. Manhart
George Marshall
M. H. Martin
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Susan Ann McCraney
A. S. McDermott
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M. F. McNamara
Jacob Michel
Charles Miller
Adam Mink
George Mollart
William J. Morgans
James Mullin
Dorrance Dixon Myers
Nicholas P. Nicks
Frederick R. Nitzsche, M. D.
J. J. E. Norman
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Bernard J. O'Neill
John P. Page
Frank Paley
John Palmer
Rev. Frederick William Pape
Thomas Phillips
Joseph Platz
Andrew Rahe
Honorable James Rowan
Reverend Roger Ryan
George Salot
Colonel C. J. W. Saunders
John Sauser, Jr.
Joseph Schemmel
George Schmitt
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Oren Stuart, M. D.
James Sweeney
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Chester H. Walker
William Watson, M. D.
F. W. Wieland
Louis Witter
Jacob Zollicoffer

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Reverend Roger Ryan
Extracted from Portrait and Biographical Record of Dubuque, Jones and Clayton Counties, Iowa, 1894 Reprinted by Higginson Book Co., Salem, Massachusetts, p. 141

REV. ROGER RYAN, pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church of Dubuque, is a native of the Emerald Isle. He was born in that country, in County Limerick, on the 6th of April, 1843, and his education was acquired in Ireland. There he remained until twenty-three years of age, when, in 1866, he crossed the Atlantic to America. Here he entered Cape Girardeau College of Missouri, in which institution he spent three years, pursuing a thorough and systematic course of study, which well fitted him for his chosen life work.

On the expiration of that period, Rev. Ryan went to Milwaukee, Wis., where he again spent some time taking a course of study in St. Francis Theological Seminary. He was ordained a priest at Milwaukee the 13th of March, 1869, by Archbishop Henni. The year 1869 witnessed his arrival in Dubuque, whither he came to become assistant at the cathedral. Later, in October, 1869, he was appointed pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, one of the largest and most wealthy churches in the city, the congregation numbering over two hundred and fifty families. There is a good house of worship, together with a nice parsonage, built in a modern style of architecture and tastefully and comfortably furnished. It is situated in the midst of beautiful grounds adorned with all kinds of flowers and with roses from almost every clime. Rev. Ryan is a faithful worker in the interest of his church, untiring in his efforts to promote and up-build it, and has the confidence and esteem of all his parishioners.

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