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Show E. H. RYAN PASSES OX A blow has fallen on Cedar City and Iron county in the death. May 10th, of Edmond Henry Ryan, County Coun-ty Attorney of Iron County. City Attorney At-torney of Cedar City and special attorney at-torney for the Salt Lake Route, Dixie Dix-ie Power company, Bank of Southern j Utah, and other industrial companies of Southern Utah. During the month, of February, Mr Ryan's health began failing to some extent, and soon afterwards he contracted con-tracted a severe case of pneumonia, from which he only partially recovered recover-ed andi from the effects of which he finally died, after one of the most determined de-termined and patient struggles a mair ever made for life and health. Mr. Ryan was born at Moretown. Vermont, November 1868, the son of Edmond Ryan. In 1869 his parents moved to Northfield Falls, where he attended the village school and later the high school at Northfield. Septem ber 13. 1888, he entered the Nor--wich University, of Norwich. Vermont, Ver-mont, from which he was graduated in 1892, as a civil engineer. In the university he was a corporal, first sergeant, and captain of Company A. assistant editor and manager of the student paper, won first prize in the Sheldon contest in 1889, and received receiv-ed honorable mention and Faculty Gold Medal in 1892, besides being valedictorian of his class. From 1892 to 1995, he was assistant assis-tant engineer with the Locks and Canals Company of Lowell, Massachusetts. Massa-chusetts. In 1893 he began the study stu-dy of law while "still with the above named company, -in connection with his work as an engineer, and was admitted ad-mitted to the bar. From 1895 to 18-96 18-96 he was engineer for the Denver and Gulf railway, and the South Plat Power and: Irrigation company, in Colorado. In 1896 he moved to Utah Ut-ah to assume the duties of engineer for the Blue Mountain Tunnel and Mining Company. In 1896 he located locat-ed at Monticello, San Juan -county and began the practice of law. In 18 99 he was elected County attorney and served to 1901, when, he removed to Cedar City where he has resided ever since. In 1901 he was married to Catherine Perkins of 'Monticello, Utah. Mrs. Ryan and their five children chil-dren survive him. In 1902 he was appointed city attorney at-torney of Cedar City, which he held continuously until 1908. He was also al-so elected county attorney of Iron county in 1902, holding likewise until un-til 1908, when he gave up both city and county offices to take the position posi-tion of district attorney of the Fifth Judicial District, of Utah. This position posi-tion he held two terms, or to- 1916. In 1904 heiwas made local attornev for the Salt Lake Route, a little later for the Bank of Southern Utah, and and other local institutions. In 1916 the Democratic landslide retired Mr. Ryan from office of District attornev. During all this time he had built, un a, large private practice which took most of his time and energy. In 1920 he again accepted the position of county attorney of Iron county and nnd that of city attorney for Cedar City which he held at the time of his death. Lenders of his party were Insistent that he become a candidate for District. Dis-trict. Judge of the Fifth Judicial district, dis-trict, but. he always refused, as he preferred to practice. Probably the biggest case with the most far-rencbing effects. m? that of the Utah Stockman wbo miw-tioned miw-tioned the constitutionality of the Ari zona grazing tax of 50 cents per npnrl on cattle and 25 cents per head on sheep. It was his privilege to leprn that, he had won the case not many weeks before his passing. Thousands of head of stock and thousands of dol lnrs were involved and the preparation prepara-tion of the argument againshtatenrr required the highest scholarship and the widest research. That the hrief prepared by Mr. Ryan was a masterly master-ly treatment, of the question is vr.--ed by the' fact that the Arizona Supreme Su-preme court in making its decision followed his argument closely, qunt-inr; qunt-inr; much of it word for word. Men of Mr. Ryan's scholarship and attainments are few and far between. Only his health, which he was forced to guard carefully always, kept him from attaining the highest legal standing, positions and fame to be had in the West. |