It is true that ranch dressing was invented at Hidden Valley Ranch near Santa Barbara, California, by a real salad-wranglin' rancher. In the 50s and 60s Steve Henson and his wife, Gayle, shared their 120-acre dude ranch with University of California at Santa Barbara students and other festive partiers for rousing weekend shindigs.
William was born in Calgary while his father, Michael Nylander, played for the Calgary Flames. He spent the majority of his youth in the United States where his father played for a multitude of NHL teams, spending the summers in Sweden. His family later moved to Sweden when he was 14.
William, the subject of this sketch, was born in White Deer township, Northumberland county now New Columbia, Union county on the 22d of November, 1787. In 1810 he became a citizen of Jersey Shore. When he came to this place it was a small village and the surrounding country was mostly a wilderness.