Edward Ryan was born in Janesville.

The evidence

• “Edward Ryan, A. B., LL.B., a member of the Rock coimty bar, was born in Janesville, "Wis., April 3, 1852, and is of Irish descent. His father was a native of Tipperary, Ireland, and although his mother, Eliza O'Donnell, was born in Burlington.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/32-courts-and-legal-profession.md, Vol. 2, PDF p. 287 / book p. 786

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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