EDWARD L. RYERSON, EX-HEAD OF INLAND STEEL, IS DEAD AT 84

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R001300420001-4
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 2, 2001
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• Publication Date: August 3, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

P3~~, Approved For Release 2001 c Yd4'~ 6lA-RDP80-0160
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Edward L. Ryerson, cliairmanl
Otf:Inlaitc} Steal Company from,
19,10 to 1953, died early today
(:flow along illness. TIC was 8,11
'ears old.
p Survivors are his Nvidovr,
Vora. ?;utter l:yeYSnn; a dauuh-
f.er, Nora I2. Ranney; a ,all, L,I-i
Vnrd L. Ryerson Jr.; eb h;.
;rr;;nclc:'lilurcn, and fair grc.at-
giendchildre.n.
i,ierrior;al services Will be.
}ir'..d GWednes jay at St. JjnS11
3 3.. scopal Ca t.hadral hero.
*n ~
} dv ar{1 Earned lI c-rson, 'a
he,~edita.ry Chicago steel man..
}fact a ten recoril of civic ac-
tivity there and won national l
1LC0 1lit10 5 OIE, Of the i1,0 L1 S
effective 1 . ten for the 1:1 1912
CIII~tYII? }
Mr. I ci-son was born in Clil
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ca;o and r;.,.; lycd his I1h03.I
fro!11 Yale's' Sheffield Scientific!,'erson, was killed in action
? Clloal in 19;08, folio\,ed by far-',n tLe Army Air' pore'; in 1914.
tiler study at M,a,"'chuscttsi
ho titute of Teclulolo ~'. He b^-; !i Republican in 3) nitlcs, '`Ir.
chin pre irieft of Joseph T.iik Orson was a C'. `ate to tile'
by r oa. ? f-cu, Inc., founded in-,'erty's 10,10 and 7 '14 conven-
which erns the tar ;est in-I`ons and in 1952 became pres-
c)cp r 'ant sled and 'roll Serv!CE!':dennt of the Republican Cit'r-
cpncernin the country v;hen it ^n5 Finance Committee of
was in rged in IS.35 v.'ith Inland '.Ilinois.
S?trel, the larr eot li;depa_ndc''lt~ ito bras chairman eiacl'ttldS of
rnanuiacturers. . the hospital ?.Tannin? Commis-
r. ? ltycrson . became vices :ion Of i.`_etreprclitan Chicago, a
? }uiirnlctn and then chairinal inl;::st presider Of the Con-11nl-
a9 0, stepping sewn at the age!nity Fund of Chicago and of the
J)f G6 in 19153. In 11;51 the stel'John Crerar I..ibrary and a past
ndustry had riven him t}7elcha1-tiled of the National Com-
Gaiy 'lern02'1al i 1edal, 115 hl`r1l.jlnlttCe for 1 oa11CIation> and
of ?av ard, in recognition ofd 11iSt5 for Community Welfare.
uhlic relations :efforts on }ts lie had been a fellow of the
e}lalf. Yale Corporation front 193`; to
1944, chairman of the trustees
Is'erc eci hol'e' }=:oord r
of the University of Chicago
Fie was president of the-Chi- and president ofiho Orchestral
c F o Council of Social Agen- Association of Chicago from
cie later the Welfare Council, 193S-to 1952. -
from 1927 to 19366 and in 1930 Mr. Ryerson also had been a
wa.c appointed -to _ the Cover- lay delegate to General Con-
poi's Commission on Unem- ventions of the Episcopal
ployhnent and Relief, serving as Church in 1940 and 191+6 and a
chairman of the Illinois 1'siuer- member of the National Lay
gency Relief. Commission in Committee of the National
1932-33. Council of Churches. He was a
shortly after World War. Ii former trustee of the Carnegie
broke out in Europe, Mr. Rv:r-1j_ndo\ymc:nt for International
sort said in a Norr York s,:?_-eehlPeace.
that business men wanted 110 In 191'8 he headed a delega.-
bu iness improvement `9esult- Lion of American steel -ex'ec-
in,r= directly or indirectly ham 1ltiyeS Who toured the Soviet
vat'." For a time he supported Union and who, on their return,
the "America First:" movement, said they were "greatly inl-
,opjiosing American luvolvenlentlpressed" by its steel production.
in the conflict. Ile resigned a~I-Ia concluded that the United
few weeks before Pearl Harbor, Slates should substantially in-
re.tiearch.
stn tiny that the country could crease steel industry
find itself at war "at any mo- Mr. Ryerson was appointed
)Meta" and calling for "unified by President Eisenhower to his
action by all our people." Board of Consultants on lor-
In 1917 he had been con'- eign Intelligence Activities set
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siL red to ,.ircroft production. 1igcnce Agency and other agen-?
lie -Illaiific-d f's at pilot and he-,cies engaged in forei ;n intel-