Adolphus Egerton Ryerson (24 March 1803 - 19 February 1882) was a minister, educator, politician, and public education advocate in early Ontario, Canada. He was born in Charlotteville, Norfolk County in the then-colony of Upper Canada. He joined the Methodist Episcopal Church at 18, and was forced to leave the home by his Anglican father. Becoming an itinerant minister - or circuit rider - in the Niagara area, … Wikipedia
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Egerton Ryerson was born in the Township of Charlotteville a short distance south of the village of Vittoria, once capital of the London District, on the 24th of March 1803. He was a son of one of the pioneer United Empire Loyalist families, which settle freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~methodists/groups.htm
Egerton Ryerson (1803-1882) was the son of a prominent loyalist farmer from the Norfolk area of south-western Ontario. Like a number of his brothers before him Ryerson became a Methodist Minister. He served the ministry for nearly 20 years before being www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/exhibits/education/ryerson...
To say that Egerton Ryerson was an important figure in the development of Methodism and the promotion of religious freedom in nineteenth-century Canada would be a severe understatement. Ryerson started out as a saddle-bag preacher and itinerant minister www.ryerson.ca/archives/egerton.html
Egerton Ryerson was born on March 24th, 1803, at Charlotteville, near Vittoria, in the county of Norfolk. He was the son of Colonel Joseph Ryerson , a United Empire Loyalist, and he maintained to the end that he believed in , and was, first and foremost, www.ryerson.ca/archives/naylor.html
