Collection Guide
This document describes a Manuscript Collection held by the
Special
Collections Department
University of Iowa
Libraries
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu
Guide Contents
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Biographical and Historical Information Scope and Contents of the Collection |
Photo from dust jacket of I'm Glad I Lived Then |
Administrative Information
Access and
Restrictions:
Biographical Note
J. Clyde Ryan was born in 1899 in Muscatine, Iowa. He attended city schools in Muscatine and worked before and after school to augment his family's income. He entered Muscatine High Shcool which he attended for three years. He then attended Oberlin Academy and Oberlin College. Thereafter he attended Cornell College, from which he graduated in 1915. He married in 1916 and he and Mrs. Ryan spent the following year in Turkey doing war relief work. After the war he worked at Ball Brothers Company in Muncie, Indiana, and later was vice-president of Ray-O-Vac Company in Madison, Wisconsin. He retired to Tucson, Arizona, in 1958. In 1952 he published A Skeptic Dude in Arizona and in 1968 he published I'm Glad I Lived Then.
Scope and
Contents
J. Clyde Ryan's original manuscript of A Skeptic Dude in Arizona.
Related Materials
Copies of Ryan's books can be found at the following locations:
Acquisition and Processing Information
These papers
were given to the University of Iowa Libraries by
Guide posted
to Internet:
A Skeptic Dude in Arizona
Typescript [2 folders]
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