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Herbert Ryding (51995958)
Suggested edit: HERBERT C. RYDING (7/1863-4/12/1945, 81 years)
Thirteen years passed between the retirement of Herbert C. Ryding as president of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company and his death at his home here during the past weekend. But those were not inactive years. It was a happy and fruitful and useful period of a long life.
Many men, reaching the Biblical span of three score years and ten, have attained a high degree of success in their chosen work and financially secure would have been content to loaf and play. But not Mr. Ryding. He took over the old Comer plantation in Barbour County. There cotton had been king for a hundred years. But cotton was uncertain in its profits and in its future. So, Mr. Ryding and his wife, the former Eva Comer, ordered the cotton fields turned into pastures and the cotton warehouses into barns. This year, for the first time in a century, no cotton is growing on the famous old plantation, and white-faced cattle from the fields, fattened only on Dutch clover and Dallis grass pastures, topped both the cow and calf market in Montgomery.
In the final chapter of his life, Mr. Ryding displayed many of the qualities that made him a success – energy, vision, initiative, and foresight. These characteristics brought him a young steel and iron man, from England to the challenging opportunities of the United States and in 1907 to Birmingham. He rose to the T.C.I. presidency during the hard years of the depression.
When he reached the retirement age, he was still vigorous, so he turned into a new field of interest. And there as during the years of his industrial leadership, he served himself and the state he had come to adopt by showing what could be done in Alabama with a cattle industry. The twilight of his life was marked, as had been his sunlit years, with useful activity.
A LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT ENDS
Barbour County has lost a grand citizen in the death of Mr. Herbert C. Ryding. The county was especially proud of him because he was a Barbour countian by choice and not by birth. Mr. Ryding was born in England, son of an eminent surgeon in the British Navy. The father, hoping the son would also become a surgeon, educated him carefully and sent him to Heidelberg for four years. Mr. Ryding did not like surgery and spent another year studying to be a barrister and an opportunity came to him to join one of the big iron companies in Wales. There he learned practical metallurgy and showed such promise that he was called to the United States as a young man and this has been his home to him since that time.
In 1907, he came to Alabama from Ohio as assistant to the president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. In 1917, he became vice president, and in 1930 was elected president.
It was upon his retirement in 1933 that he and Mrs. Ryding, who was Governor B.B. Comer’s daughter, Eva, went to Barbour county and took up farming in earnest. Becoming a highly successful cattle raiser, Mr. Ryding seemed to get enormous enjoyment out of everything the Alabama Black Belt region had to offer. He loved to hunt and to fish and to ride the countryside. The welfare work done by him and Mrs. Ryding in north Barbour county where the population is overwhelmingly Negro is incalculable and has set a pattern for all such work in rural Alabama. They established health and dental clinics. They have built a manual training school. They have aided the Negro churches attended the Negro services with advice and counsel. They have shown the Negro farmers by practical example how to make better crops, how to use better seed, how to improve their land, how to treat their livestock. Their home and estate at Old Spring Hill has been a center for a wide field of welfare activity, that kept constant and close contacts with Birmingham, with Montgomery and with all the communities of their own region. It is sad for Alabama to lose such a man in Herbert Ryding, but he had reached the age of 82, and passed after a life of exceptional fullness and achievement.
From Birmingham comes word of the death of Herbert Ryding. You can’t think of anyone else who ever came from so far away and grew to be so much a part of Alabama. Its industry and agriculture, its North and South. Its social and public life and its most native family life. The genial, competent, loyal gentleman from England “belonged” and his passing takes from us all a loved possession. For Mrs. Ryding, who was Eva Comer, daughter of Braxton Bragg Comer, sympathy is compounded with appreciation of the way, she had shared her husband’s life and made great contribution even as he was making them. ON the same day in 1930 in which he was named to Alabama’s biggest industrial post, the presidency of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, she was awarded The Birmingham News Cup for outstanding public service. People thought of them together. They were always “the Rydings.” She may be sure in her loss that he will be remembered through her now whatever she goes.
What some of us will miss most is the geniality of Herbert Ryding. Nothing in his years of hard work and great achievement ever robbed him of that warm, friendly personality, that sociability in response to people and thing which made him welcome everywhere.
Contributor: W.D. Hosey (46850918) • wdhosey@windstream
Find A Grave contributor, W.D. Hosey has made the following suggested edits.
Herbert Ryding (51995958)
Suggested edit: HERBERT C. RYDING (7/1863-4/12/1945, 81 years)
Thirteen years passed between the retirement of Herbert C. Ryding as president of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company and his death at his home here during the past weekend. But those were not inactive years. It was a happy and fruitful and useful period of a long life.
Many men, reaching the Biblical span of three score years and ten, have attained a high degree of success in their chosen work and financially secure would have been content to loaf and play. But not Mr. Ryding. He took over the old Comer plantation in Barbour County. There cotton had been king for a hundred years. But cotton was uncertain in its profits and in its future. So, Mr. Ryding and his wife, the former Eva Comer, ordered the cotton fields turned into pastures and the cotton warehouses into barns. This year, for the first time in a century, no cotton is growing on the famous old plantation, and white-faced cattle from the fields, fattened only on Dutch clover and Dallis grass pastures, topped both the cow and calf market in Montgomery.
In the final chapter of his life, Mr. Ryding displayed many of the qualities that made him a success – energy, vision, initiative, and foresight. These characteristics brought him a young steel and iron man, from England to the challenging opportunities of the United States and in 1907 to Birmingham. He rose to the T.C.I. presidency during the hard years of the depression.
When he reached the retirement age, he was still vigorous, so he turned into a new field of interest. And there as during the years of his industrial leadership, he served himself and the state he had come to adopt by showing what could be done in Alabama with a cattle industry. The twilight of his life was marked, as had been his sunlit years, with useful activity.
A LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT ENDS
Barbour County has lost a grand citizen in the death of Mr. Herbert C. Ryding. The county was especially proud of him because he was a Barbour countian by choice and not by birth. Mr. Ryding was born in England, son of an eminent surgeon in the British Navy. The father, hoping the son would also become a surgeon, educated him carefully and sent him to Heidelberg for four years. Mr. Ryding did not like surgery and spent another year studying to be a barrister and an opportunity came to him to join one of the big iron companies in Wales. There he learned practical metallurgy and showed such promise that he was called to the United States as a young man and this has been his home to him since that time.
In 1907, he came to Alabama from Ohio as assistant to the president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. In 1917, he became vice president, and in 1930 was elected president.
It was upon his retirement in 1933 that he and Mrs. Ryding, who was Governor B.B. Comer’s daughter, Eva, went to Barbour county and took up farming in earnest. Becoming a highly successful cattle raiser, Mr. Ryding seemed to get enormous enjoyment out of everything the Alabama Black Belt region had to offer. He loved to hunt and to fish and to ride the countryside. The welfare work done by him and Mrs. Ryding in north Barbour county where the population is overwhelmingly Negro is incalculable and has set a pattern for all such work in rural Alabama. They established health and dental clinics. They have built a manual training school. They have aided the Negro churches attended the Negro services with advice and counsel. They have shown the Negro farmers by practical example how to make better crops, how to use better seed, how to improve their land, how to treat their livestock. Their home and estate at Old Spring Hill has been a center for a wide field of welfare activity, that kept constant and close contacts with Birmingham, with Montgomery and with all the communities of their own region. It is sad for Alabama to lose such a man in Herbert Ryding, but he had reached the age of 82, and passed after a life of exceptional fullness and achievement.
From Birmingham comes word of the death of Herbert Ryding. You can’t think of anyone else who ever came from so far away and grew to be so much a part of Alabama. Its industry and agriculture, its North and South. Its social and public life and its most native family life. The genial, competent, loyal gentleman from England “belonged” and his passing takes from us all a loved possession. For Mrs. Ryding, who was Eva Comer, daughter of Braxton Bragg Comer, sympathy is compounded with appreciation of the way, she had shared her husband’s life and made great contribution even as he was making them. ON the same day in 1930 in which he was named to Alabama’s biggest industrial post, the presidency of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, she was awarded The Birmingham News Cup for outstanding public service. People thought of them together. They were always “the Rydings.” She may be sure in her loss that he will be remembered through her now whatever she goes.
What some of us will miss most is the geniality of Herbert Ryding. Nothing in his years of hard work and great achievement ever robbed him of that warm, friendly personality, that sociability in response to people and thing which made him welcome everywhere.
Contributor: W.D. Hosey (46850918) • wdhosey@windstream
Suggested Edit
Find A Grave contributor, W.D. Hosey has made the following suggested edits.
Herbert Ryding (51995958)
Suggested edit: HERBERT C. RYDING (7/1863-4/12/1945, 81 years)
Thirteen years passed between the retirement of Herbert C. Ryding as president of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company and his death at his home here during the past weekend. But those were not inactive years. It was a happy and fruitful and useful period of a long life.
Many men, reaching the Biblical span of three score years and ten, have attained a high degree of success in their chosen work and financially secure would have been content to loaf and play. But not Mr. Ryding. He took over the old Comer plantation in Barbour County. There cotton had been king for a hundred years. But cotton was uncertain in its profits and in its future. So, Mr. Ryding and his wife, the former Eva Comer, ordered the cotton fields turned into pastures and the cotton warehouses into barns. This year, for the first time in a century, no cotton is growing on the famous old plantation, and white-faced cattle from the fields, fattened only on Dutch clover and Dallis grass pastures, topped both the cow and calf market in Montgomery.
In the final chapter of his life, Mr. Ryding displayed many of the qualities that made him a success – energy, vision, initiative, and foresight. These characteristics brought him a young steel and iron man, from England to the challenging opportunities of the United States and in 1907 to Birmingham. He rose to the T.C.I. presidency during the hard years of the depression.
When he reached the retirement age, he was still vigorous, so he turned into a new field of interest. And there as during the years of his industrial leadership, he served himself and the state he had come to adopt by showing what could be done in Alabama with a cattle industry. The twilight of his life was marked, as had been his sunlit years, with useful activity.
A LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT ENDS
Barbour County has lost a grand citizen in the death of Mr. Herbert C. Ryding. The county was especially proud of him because he was a Barbour countian by choice and not by birth. Mr. Ryding was born in England, son of an eminent surgeon in the British Navy. The father, hoping the son would also become a surgeon, educated him carefully and sent him to Heidelberg for four years. Mr. Ryding did not like surgery and spent another year studying to be a barrister and an opportunity came to him to join one of the big iron companies in Wales. There he learned practical metallurgy and showed such promise that he was called to the United States as a young man and this has been his home to him since that time.
In 1907, he came to Alabama from Ohio as assistant to the president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. In 1917, he became vice president, and in 1930 was elected president.
It was upon his retirement in 1933 that he and Mrs. Ryding, who was Governor B.B. Comer’s daughter, Eva, went to Barbour county and took up farming in earnest. Becoming a highly successful cattle raiser, Mr. Ryding seemed to get enormous enjoyment out of everything the Alabama Black Belt region had to offer. He loved to hunt and to fish and to ride the countryside. The welfare work done by him and Mrs. Ryding in north Barbour county where the population is overwhelmingly Negro is incalculable and has set a pattern for all such work in rural Alabama. They established health and dental clinics. They have built a manual training school. They have aided the Negro churches attended the Negro services with advice and counsel. They have shown the Negro farmers by practical example how to make better crops, how to use better seed, how to improve their land, how to treat their livestock. Their home and estate at Old Spring Hill has been a center for a wide field of welfare activity, that kept constant and close contacts with Birmingham, with Montgomery and with all the communities of their own region. It is sad for Alabama to lose such a man in Herbert Ryding, but he had reached the age of 82, and passed after a life of exceptional fullness and achievement.
From Birmingham comes word of the death of Herbert Ryding. You can’t think of anyone else who ever came from so far away and grew to be so much a part of Alabama. Its industry and agriculture, its North and South. Its social and public life and its most native family life. The genial, competent, loyal gentleman from England “belonged” and his passing takes from us all a loved possession. For Mrs. Ryding, who was Eva Comer, daughter of Braxton Bragg Comer, sympathy is compounded with appreciation of the way, she had shared her husband’s life and made great contribution even as he was making them. ON the same day in 1930 in which he was named to Alabama’s biggest industrial post, the presidency of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, she was awarded The Birmingham News Cup for outstanding public service. People thought of them together. They were always “the Rydings.” She may be sure in her loss that he will be remembered through her now whatever she goes.
What some of us will miss most is the geniality of Herbert Ryding. Nothing in his years of hard work and great achievement ever robbed him of that warm, friendly personality, that sociability in response to people and thing which made him welcome everywhere.
Contributor: W.D. Hosey (46850918) • wdhosey@windstream
Find A Grave contributor, W.D. Hosey has made the following suggested edits.
Herbert Ryding (51995958)
Suggested edit: HERBERT C. RYDING (7/1863-4/12/1945, 81 years)
Thirteen years passed between the retirement of Herbert C. Ryding as president of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Company and his death at his home here during the past weekend. But those were not inactive years. It was a happy and fruitful and useful period of a long life.
Many men, reaching the Biblical span of three score years and ten, have attained a high degree of success in their chosen work and financially secure would have been content to loaf and play. But not Mr. Ryding. He took over the old Comer plantation in Barbour County. There cotton had been king for a hundred years. But cotton was uncertain in its profits and in its future. So, Mr. Ryding and his wife, the former Eva Comer, ordered the cotton fields turned into pastures and the cotton warehouses into barns. This year, for the first time in a century, no cotton is growing on the famous old plantation, and white-faced cattle from the fields, fattened only on Dutch clover and Dallis grass pastures, topped both the cow and calf market in Montgomery.
In the final chapter of his life, Mr. Ryding displayed many of the qualities that made him a success – energy, vision, initiative, and foresight. These characteristics brought him a young steel and iron man, from England to the challenging opportunities of the United States and in 1907 to Birmingham. He rose to the T.C.I. presidency during the hard years of the depression.
When he reached the retirement age, he was still vigorous, so he turned into a new field of interest. And there as during the years of his industrial leadership, he served himself and the state he had come to adopt by showing what could be done in Alabama with a cattle industry. The twilight of his life was marked, as had been his sunlit years, with useful activity.
A LIFE OF ACHIEVEMENT ENDS
Barbour County has lost a grand citizen in the death of Mr. Herbert C. Ryding. The county was especially proud of him because he was a Barbour countian by choice and not by birth. Mr. Ryding was born in England, son of an eminent surgeon in the British Navy. The father, hoping the son would also become a surgeon, educated him carefully and sent him to Heidelberg for four years. Mr. Ryding did not like surgery and spent another year studying to be a barrister and an opportunity came to him to join one of the big iron companies in Wales. There he learned practical metallurgy and showed such promise that he was called to the United States as a young man and this has been his home to him since that time.
In 1907, he came to Alabama from Ohio as assistant to the president of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. In 1917, he became vice president, and in 1930 was elected president.
It was upon his retirement in 1933 that he and Mrs. Ryding, who was Governor B.B. Comer’s daughter, Eva, went to Barbour county and took up farming in earnest. Becoming a highly successful cattle raiser, Mr. Ryding seemed to get enormous enjoyment out of everything the Alabama Black Belt region had to offer. He loved to hunt and to fish and to ride the countryside. The welfare work done by him and Mrs. Ryding in north Barbour county where the population is overwhelmingly Negro is incalculable and has set a pattern for all such work in rural Alabama. They established health and dental clinics. They have built a manual training school. They have aided the Negro churches attended the Negro services with advice and counsel. They have shown the Negro farmers by practical example how to make better crops, how to use better seed, how to improve their land, how to treat their livestock. Their home and estate at Old Spring Hill has been a center for a wide field of welfare activity, that kept constant and close contacts with Birmingham, with Montgomery and with all the communities of their own region. It is sad for Alabama to lose such a man in Herbert Ryding, but he had reached the age of 82, and passed after a life of exceptional fullness and achievement.
From Birmingham comes word of the death of Herbert Ryding. You can’t think of anyone else who ever came from so far away and grew to be so much a part of Alabama. Its industry and agriculture, its North and South. Its social and public life and its most native family life. The genial, competent, loyal gentleman from England “belonged” and his passing takes from us all a loved possession. For Mrs. Ryding, who was Eva Comer, daughter of Braxton Bragg Comer, sympathy is compounded with appreciation of the way, she had shared her husband’s life and made great contribution even as he was making them. ON the same day in 1930 in which he was named to Alabama’s biggest industrial post, the presidency of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company, she was awarded The Birmingham News Cup for outstanding public service. People thought of them together. They were always “the Rydings.” She may be sure in her loss that he will be remembered through her now whatever she goes.
What some of us will miss most is the geniality of Herbert Ryding. Nothing in his years of hard work and great achievement ever robbed him of that warm, friendly personality, that sociability in response to people and thing which made him welcome everywhere.
Contributor: W.D. Hosey (46850918) • wdhosey@windstream
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