Romance among Boulder’s first homesteaders

Olive Hagadone

November 12, 2025

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6ca17688d4b77d4d5491a9ff907810b6 — Drew and Karen Jackson, the oldest living descendents of 19th century Boulder Valley homesteader Edward Ryan, dance at the Ryan family reunion in June 2024 at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. (Provided by Joyce Keeler).

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Excerpted from Boulder: Its Friends and Neighbors, written by Boulder’s only female mayor, Olive Hagadone, and originally published serially in The Monitor in 1985-86.

Continuous service of 39 years as a bank director should surely qualify Edward Ryan for a spot in the Guiness Book of Records. He was one of the organizers of the Boulder National Bank in 1888and was still there when it was sold to the Butte group in 1927.

But the real Ryan story is a love story of two pioneers of Jefferson County.

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