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An Appreciation of Russell Ritchie Bryan
Colorado School of Mines lost a valued alumnus when Russel Ritchie Bryan, Met. E. 1908, died at Cananea on Feb. 12, 1970. Mexico lost on of its old foreign Residents who had spent much of his professional life in the country. After graduating from public schools in Denver, Russ Bryan went on to professional studies at Golden. Born in Denver on March 27, 1886, he had still not strayed from his home state when granted a degree in Metallurgical Engineering by Colorado School of Mines in 1908. Thereafter he was seldom in it except for brief employment at the Tomboy, in Telluride, and a Bureau of Mines project at Colorado Springs during those years when he was amassing experience for later accomplishments. Interspersed with those early jobs were others at the Sunnyside in Eureka, at Anaconda Test Laboratory in Montana and work in California gold mines. He married Edith Ann Skinner in 1914.
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