Biography
Pat Ryan was identified as a prisoner at San Quentin penitentiary, California, in the December 1923 Industrial Pioneer. Henry George Weise introduced his poem "Standing Fast!" as written after visiting Ryan there. The magazine presented Ryan as a fellow worker in its special political-prisoner amnesty issue. The source does not identify his charge, sentence, admission or release date, or actual custody duration.
Pat Ryan was identified as a prisoner at San Quentin penitentiary, California, in the December 1923 Industrial Pioneer. Henry George Weise introduced his poem "Standing Fast!" as written after visiting Ryan there. The magazine presented Ryan as a fellow worker in its special political-prisoner amnesty issue. The source does not identify his charge, sentence, admission or release date, or actual custody duration. Documented as confined at San Quentin in the prose introduction to a poem published December 1923. The publication month is an observation, not an admission date; charge, conviction, sentence and custody endpoints remain unknown.
Industrial Pioneer, December 1923, printed page 6 (PDF page 8), prose introduction to Standing Fast!.
