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History of the Great Lakes
Illustrated, In Two Volumes, Vol. II
Chicago, J. H. Beers & Co., 1899

           [261-262]

               CAPTAIN DALLAS RYDER, the present master of the Codorus, is
            one of the eight children, five sons and three daughters, of
	    DAVID and HANNAH (JACKSON) RYDER.
	       He was born in the town of Lyme, Jefferson county, N.Y.,
	    where he assisted his father at farming, and attended the
	    district schools, until sixteen years of age. At that time, in
	    answer to the government's call for help, he entered the
	    Thirty-fifth New York Volunteers, went to the front, and, after
	    two years of service, re-enlisted in the Frontier (Twenty-sixth
	    New York) Cavalry, from which he was discharged with the rank
	    of second lieutenant. He immediately began sailing, and has
	    ever since continued to follow the lakes, becoming a very suc-
	    cessful and competent navigator, as his record and the high-
	    class steamer which has been committed to his care will show.
	    His first service was before the mast on the Henry Hoag, on
	    which he remained about six months, after which he was on the
	    Gilmore, Penfield, Selkirk, and one or two others in the same
	    capacity. In 1871 he went as second mate on the steamer
	    Lawrence, and in 1872-73 was the mate of the Brooklyn, then
	    master of the Buckeye one season, and the Lowell two seasons.
	    He entered the service of the Anchor line in 1881 as mate of
	    the Juniata, on which he continued for two seasons, and was
	    next on the Annie Young one season. Following this he was
	    master of the Gordon Campbell one season and Juniata seven
	    seasons, and for the past three seasons, including that of
	    1897, of the Codorus, one of the two finest boats of the line.
	    Captain Ryder has twenty-four issues of master's papers, and
	    during his entire career has been fortunate, as well, as
	    careful, having never experienced any serious disaster. The
	    closest approach to one was while he was on the Brooklyn, her
	    boilers exploding when she was ten miles below Detroit, and
            killing eleven men, our subject escaping with a broken arm.
               In February, 1865, CAPTAIN RYDER was married to MISS ANNETTE
            WILSON, also from Lyme, and they have two children, a son and a
            daughter; the eldest, ARCHIE, being a law student at the
            Buffalo University.
               The Captain is a member of the Ship Masters Association of
            Buffalo, No. 2; of Chaumont Lodge No. 172, F. & A. M., and of
            Lodge No. 498, I. O. F. and the G. A. R. The family residence
            is at Three Mile Bay, Jefferson county. New York.

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