a gift from President Grover Cleveland. Ryan died at age 79, nine days before his eightieth birthday. The Archbishop is described as "..a man of strong opinions who navigates the stormy waters of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century church without either making many enemies or compromising his basic beliefs." References External links 1831 births 1911 deaths 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States 20th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United States Roman Catholic archbishops of Philadelphia Irish expatriate Catholic bishops Irish emigrants to the United States (before 1923) Alumni of Carlow College People from County Tipperary Clergy from Philadelphia Burials at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis Religious leaders from Missouri