CACrown ArchivesThe cinema collection
EN/FR
Search
Menu
Research dossier · People & Ideas

Daniel Ryan Sr.

American politician

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
People and ideasInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ108003856 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daniel Ryan Sr. (1861/1862–1923) was an Irish-American politician who served as a member and president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.

Biography

Ryan was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago, settling in the Englewood neighborhood.

In his early career in Chicago, he worked at the Union Stock Yards. At the Union Stock Yards, he would quickly become a successful buyer. He would later become a cement contractor.

He would become a prominent Democratic politician, becoming the party's leader in Chicago's 32nd ward.

Ryan was a charter member of the Englewood Council of the Knights of Columbus. He also was a 4th degree member of the LaSalle Assembly, a member of the St.

Editorial summary

“Daniel Ryan Sr.” enters the record as american politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Daniel, Ryan and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1861, 1862, 1923—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Daniel, Ryan and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Daniel Ryan Sr.” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Daniel, Ryan and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108003856. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1861, 1862 and 1923.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

Best used for
  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
Verify next

Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Daniel Ryan Sr.”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Daniel Ryan Sr. primary sources, Daniel Ryan Sr. archive and Daniel research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Daniel Ryan Sr.”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Subject index

Search terms from this dossier

Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Daniel Ryan Sr.” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.