An Illustrated History of the State of Washington, by Rev. H.K. Hines, D.D., The
Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, IL., 1893, pages 346-347
	
	
	CHARLES M. RYMAN, one of the most popular educators of the State, and the
present Superintendent of Schools in Klickitat county, Washington, is a native
of Indiana, born in Sullivan county, July 29, 1857. His parents were John and
Margaret (McKinney) Ryman, also Indianans by birth; the father died in 1857, and
the mother afterward removed to Clark county, Illinois. There Charles M. grew to
manhood and received his education in the public schools; he was a student in
the commercial college at Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1879, and the following year
he began teaching. He has devoted his time and energies to this profession and
has won an enviable reputation throughout the country.
	Desirous of making a home on the Pacific coast he came to Portland, Oregon,
in 1886, and taught for two years in Marion county. He then made a trip to the
East, and before his return he was united in marriage to Miss Mahala Piety of
Indiana, this happy ceremony being solemnized March 21, 1889.
	Upon his return to the coast Mr. Ryman settled in Goldendale and for a
period of four years was one of the leading teachers in the city schools. In the
fall of 1892 he was elected County Superintendent of Schools, a position for
which he has shown a peculiar fitness, and one he has filled with great
satisfaction to his constituency and to the patrons of the schools.
	Politically, he affiliates with the Republican party. He is a member of the
Masonic order and of the I.O.O.F. Although the duties of his office are arduous
he finds time to direct the cultivation of 160 acres, a tract that he owns,
lying twenty miles northwest of the city.
	Mr. and Mrs. Ryman have had two children, Mabel, and a little daughter named
Goldie who died in infancy.
	
	
Submitted to the WA. Bios Project in September 2003 by Jeffrey L. Elmer
	
	
	
	
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