Samuel C. Ryan, a farmer near Jerome, a native of Warren County, N. J., was born September 6, 1842. He is a son of Patrick and Martha (Cornell) Ryan, the former a native of County Kilkenny, Ireland, and the latter of Warren County, N. J. His father was born March 17, 1810, and came to Quebec in 1823-25, and in 1828 came to the States. In 1842, he came to Columbus, and to Jerome Township in 1850, where he died August 2, 1868. He was married, in 1834, to Martha Cornell, by whom he had two sons and two daughters, viz.: Joanna, born March 5, 1835, died April 24, 1836; William T., born May 4, 1837, died - - -; Ellen, born June 14, 1839, died January 4, 1870, and Samuel C., the subject of this sketch. Our subject was reared to manhood on the farm, and educated in the common schools. He has always occupied the homestead, and now owns 134 acres of highly cultivated land.