Ryan-Stradling-Shirey-Puntenney-Tuhey families papers

The Ryan-Stradling-Shirey-Puntenney-Tuhey families were prominent families in Delaware County Indiana. This collection pertains mostly to the William Stradling family and to the J. C. Ryan family.

William Stradling was born on March 27, 1811 in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He married Jane Michener on February 19, 1835 in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The couple had several children including Mary Elizabeth Stradling, John Daniel Stradling, Isabella Hayes Stradling, Thomas Jefferson Stradling, and Dewitt Clinton Stradling. William Stradling died on March 10, 1900 in Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. His son, John Daniel Stradling, served as a private in Company B, 36th Indiana Infantry Regiment during the Civil War. He died of disease on September 4, 1863 during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi.

Jesse Clyde Ryan was born to Charles Hammond Ryan and Nettie Inez Lockwood in Muscatine County, Iowa on October 25, 1899. Ryan attended Oberlin Academy, Oberlin College, and Cornell College from which he graduated in 1915. He married Julia Winogene Shirey, daughter of Luther Shirey and Julia Stradling Shirey, in Muncie, Indiana on August 23, 1916. Ryan was the principal of Redwood Falls High School in Redwood Falls, Minnesota before he went to Trebizond, Turkey to work as a relief worker after World War I, primarily distributing flour to local Trebizond bakers. After returning from Turkey, Ryan worked in Muncie with such industries as Muncie Wheel Works and Ball Brothers, Inc. He left both Ball Brothers, Inc. and Muncie in 1943. He also owned part of the Dugger-Vanzant Packing Company, and had shares in several other local companies. Ryan lived and worked for a while in Madison, Wisconsin as the vice-President of Ray-O-Vac Company, before retiring to Tucson, Arizona in 1958.