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Two children were born of this marriage, both at the Cheshire street home, Cleveland.
I. Ella Maria Dunham, born January 21. 1864. She attended Rockwell school and the Central high school, Cleveland, and Cooper Seminary, Dayton, Ohio. She was married June 23, 1886, at Warren, to Albion Morris Dyer. They reside at No. 1905 East Seventy-third street, Cleveland.
The children of this marriage are:
i. Elbridge Griswold Dyer, born at New York City, May 15, 1887, graduated at the University school, Cleveland, class of 1906, and is now a student at Yale University.
ii. Sydney Dunham Dyer, born at Omaha, Nebraska, January 13, 1889, grad- uated at the University School, class of 1907, and now a student at Yale University. iii. Dorothy Dyer, born at Omaha, June 17, 1890, attended Miss Mittleberger's school, Cleveland, and is now in the East completing her education.
iv. Truman Dunham Dyer, born at Warren, January 26, 1896.
If. Tryon Griswold Dunham, born July 4, 1865, attended Rockwell school and Central High School, Cleveland, and Amherst College. He left college to engage in business. He married, June 20, 1891, at Warren, Clara Hunt. He resides at No. 317 Park avenue, that city.
Their only child is:
i. Tryon Hnnt Dunham, born at Warren, July 23, 1898.
ALBION MORRIS DYER was born in Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, Janu- ary 16, 1858. He came to Warren some time after marriage and lived there several years, later removing with his family to Cleveland. His father. Elbridge Gerry Dyer, was a pioneer manufacturer in Ohio, having come from Maine to Columbus about the year 1840 and engaged in the making
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of stoves and steam engines. He is a descendant of William Dyer of Hing- ham, Massachusetts, who was one of the original settlers of York county, Maine, in 1665. Mr. Dyer's mother, Margaret, was the daughter of Rev. William Teyrer, a Welsh farmer and preacher. She was born in Wales, November 27, 1825, her ancestors being of Scotch and Irish descent. The Teyrer family came from Anglesea Island, North Wales, in 1829, on account of disagreement with the collectors of the tithes. They came at once to Ohio, where many of their countrymen were settling, and broke forest for a home on the bank of the Scioto river in Radnor township, Delaware county.
Mr. Dyer, the youngest son in a family of six children, was raised in Hamilton, attending the public schools. He prepared for college at Day- ton, Ohio, and graduated at Madison (now Colgate) University, Hamilton, New York, with the degree of A. B., in 1884. He took post-graduate courses at Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, receiving from that institution the degree of A. M. Mr. Dyer was a newspaper writer in service of daily papers for many years in Cleveland, Youngstown, Buffalo, St. Louis and New York. He was associated with the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo and the St. Louis World's Fair in publicity work. In 1904 he returned to Cleveland and took charge of the Western Reserve Historical Society, of which he is the curator and a life member. His home is at 1905 East Seventy-third street, Cleveland. Mr. Dyer has been an active student and worker in American history. He has made careful examination of the manuscript and printed sources of American history in the large libraries and is now at Washington finishing for the Historical Society a bibliography of Ohio history covering the westward movement and the titles and surveys of the Northwest Territory.
Mr. Dyer married on June 23, 1886, Ella M. Dunham, at the home of her grandfather, Giles Oliver Griswold, 40 South street, Warren, Ohio. Mrs. Dyer was the eldest child of Truman and Angeline Eliza (Griswold) Dunham. There are four children : Elbridge Griswold Dyer, born May 15, 1887; Sydney Dunham Dyer, born January 13, 1889, both students at Yale College ; Dorothy Dyer, born June 17, 1890, and Truman Dunham Dyer, born January 26, 1896. They, with their parents, are members of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, Cleveland.
WILLIAM BISHOP KILPATRICK, born at Warren, Ohio, September 5, 1877, is the son of William and Grace (Hull) Kilpatrick. William Kil- patrick's parents came from Ireland and their older children were born in that country, but the father of the subject of this sketch was born in the United States. When a very young lad he was thrown on his own resources. He learned the iron moulder's trade and came from the East to Warren to join an elder brother who had located here. Here he married Grace Hull, who was descended on the maternal side from the Smith family, who came to the Western Reserve from Connecticut in the early days, and on the paternal side from eastern people also. Three children, Dexter, Jessie
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and William Bishop, were born to them. Mrs. Kilpatrick died April 23, 1908.
William B. Kilpatrick was graduated from the Warren high school in June, 1896. He read law in the office of George P. Hunter and was ad- mitted to the state bar in June, 1901, and to practice before the United States circuit court in March, 1902.
Mr. Kilpatrick, from early manhood, has been deeply interested in politics. In the fall of 1898 he cast his first vote and at the April election in 1899 was elected to the city council from the second ward on the Demo- cratic ticket. This ward was a workingman's ward, but usually Repub- lican, and the young Democrat's opponent was John L. Smith, a man of mature years, who had been county commissioner and twice mayor of the city. Mr. Kilpatrick served one term as councilman and declined a re- nomination.
In 1901 he ran for mayor and was defeated by William C. Ward, Republican. In 1903 he made the race again and was beaten by M. J. Sloane, the Republican nominee. Both times, however, the normally over- whelming Republican majority was greatly reduced, and these two cam- paigns paved the way to success in November, 1905, when he was elected mayor-the first Democrat to hold that office since the Civil war and the second to ever have held it. He was re-elected in November of 1907, after one of the hardest fought campaigns in the history of the city. His ad- ministration has been characterized by a strict enforcement of the laws governing the regulation of the liquor traffic and a constant desire to serve all the people irrespective of party.
Mr. Kilpatrick has estranged the machine politicians of his own party by his constant and earnest advocacy of fundamental Democracy and his supreme disregard for mere partisan politics. He has offended the liquor interests by his activity in the county local option campaign which resulted in a "dry" victory in Trumbull county in September, 1908. He has invoked the antagonism of the "big business" interests by his de- termined stand against the granting of franchises that were inimical to the interests of the people.
He vetoed the Hydro Electric Company's and the Warren Water and Light Company's franchises because the granting of these to private com- panies would defeat the right of the people to determine whether or not they desired municipal ownership, also because the city was not compen- sated in any way for the grants-not even accorded free lights for city buildings. Further reason for vetoing the Hydro Electric Company's franchise was that some of the councilmen were financially interested in the company. He vetoed the gas franchise of the Mahoning Gas Fuel Com- pany (supposedly the Standard Oil Company) because the grant was per- petual and the city received no compensation whatever; also because the franchise gave the right to the use of the streets to the Standard Oil Com- pany for "natural produced gas," and the regulation of the price of gas had only to do with "natural gas."
Mr. Kilpatrick ran for common pleas judge in 1908 and, though de-
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feated, carried his own city and cut down the Republican majority in the three counties represented as it never had been cut down before. He was a delegate to the state Democratic convention in Columbus in May, 1908, and a member of the resolutions committee of that convention.
One may estimate fairly well the kind of man Mayor Kilpatrick is by the character of the enemies he has made. But he has won friends among those classes which need befriending most. Since 1902 he has been president of the Trumbull County Humane Society and a member of the Board of County Visitors since 1905. He is a member of the National Child Labor League and was recently elected a member of the executive board of the Ohio Child Labor Committee.
He knows more than any one other person in Trumbull county about "how the other half lives." His study of conditions has convinced him that poverty is the cause of most human misery, and he does not assent to the easy doctrine that it is either necessary or inevitable. Though he has no formal church affiliations, he has very definite and positive religious beliefs, which are his political beliefs also.
Mr. Kilpatrick was married August 14, 1905, to Dorothy Robbins, daughter of Charles C. and Jennie Robbins, of Mesopotamia, Ohio. She is also a distant relative of Moses Cleaveland. Two sons, Bishop and Page, have been born to them.
MISS SARAH PAULINE AND THE LATE THOMAS ANDREWS BUSHNELL .- Miss Sarah Pauline and her brother, the late Thomas Andrews Bushnell, were the descendants of the early pioneers of Hartford township, Trumbull county, being the children of Eli Wells and Electa (Jones) Bushnell. Eli Wells Bushnell was the direct descendant of Francis Bushnell, one of the first settlers of Guilford, Connecticut, who landed at Boston in 1630. Eli Wells' grandfather, Captain Alexander Bushnell, was born at Lyme, Connecticut, December 2, 1739, and married Chloe Waite, February 12, 1761. Chloe Waite was the granddaughter of Thomas Waite, an English member of parliament, and one of the judges who signed the death warrant of Charles I, the Waite family coming to America about the time of the restoration in 1660.
Thomas Bushnell was the eldest son of Captain Alexander and Chloe (Waite) Bushnell, and was born at Lyme, Connecticut, January 11, 1762. He served during the later years of the Revolutionary war and married Rebecca Andrews toward its close. The latter was the daughter of Captain Nehemiah Andrews, called The Schoolmaster, of Hartford, Connecticut. It is a remarkable fact that Captain Alexander and Chloe (Waite) Bushnell were the parents of ten children, all of whom married in Connecticut and emigrated with their families to the Western Reserve. Thus the seeds of New England influences, moral, religious, and governmental, were trans- planted from the thin and rocky soil of New England to the deep, fertile ground of the West, there springing up and bearing abundant fruit. Thus it was that in 1804 Thomas and Rebecca (Andrews) Bushnell set out
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from Hartland for the West with their family, then numbering ten children, two being born after their arrival at Hartford, Ohio, namely, Amanda and Eli Wells.
Eli Wells Bushnell was the youngest of twelve children and was born at Hartford, Ohio, October 22, 1806, on the farm now owned by Mrs. Addie (Cone) Kepner, widow of the late Allen P. Kepner. His father, Thomas Bushnell, died April 10, 1817, his being the first death in the paternal family, and a severe shock to the community, as well as a terrible blow to the household. Eli learned the trade of edge tool making with Linus Parker, of Kinsman, and immediately after his marriage to Electa Jones (January 14, 1829) began life for himself in Austinburg, Ashtabula county, where his son Thomas Andrews, and a daughter, Cordelia Amanda. were horn. Mr. Bushnell being importuned by his brother, General Andrews Bushnell, to return to Hartford, did so in 1835, and remained there until his death in 1862. Ile was well known in the county as one of the best mechanics in the state, and for many years was proprietor of an ax factory, which also manufactured all kinds of edged tools. At one time every tool in his establishment was his own handiwork, including anvils, vises, screw- plates, trip-hammers, etc. It was a just matter of pride with him that he was able to repair any tool which was constructed of iron or steel, it mattered not how large or how small. His factory being destroyed by fire in 1859, he retired permanently from active business. Mr. Bushnell was an honest, conscientious, Christian man, who always remembered and practiced the Golden Rule. His heart was ever open to deeds of charity, and the poor and oppressed always found in him sympathy and help. He was one of the advance guards of the old liberty party, being one of its twelve first voters in this township. He was also a member of the Congregational church, of which he was one of the deacons. He died September 8, 1862.
Electa Maranda (Jones) Bushnell, wife of Eli Bushnell, was the fourth daughter of Elam and Sarah (Hyde) Jones, and was born in Hartford, January 25, 1808. Mrs. Bushnell was a lady of remarkable strength of mind and one of the pioneer schoolmistresses of the township. As Miss Jones she taught the first district school at Brockway's Mills, now known as Broekway, and made her home in the family of Abner Fowler, school director and representative of one of the pioneer families from Connecticut. She also taught several terms at Wheatland, Pennsylvania, living in the home of Rev. Isaac Satterfield, many of whose family have won national fame in the fields of theology and education. It was always her custom to associate with people of culture and education ; thus when she reached old age her mind was so well developed by reading and intercourse with people of intelligence that she impressed all as a woman of more than ordinary intellectual training.
Elam Jones, father of Electa (Jones) Bushnell, was the oldest son of Samuel and Ruth (Ackley) Jones, and was born at Barkhamstead, Con- necticut, September 29, 1724. Mr. Jones acquired more than an ordinary education : in addition to what he could obtain from the schools of the neighborhood, he received private instruction from Rev. Aaron Church, of
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Hartland, Connecticut. Previous to his migration he followed the profes- sion of teaching and surveying. In 1828 he built the first public.house in the township, at the "Center," and was for many years postmaster and township clerk. As he located here in 1805, he shared all the privations incident to pioneer life, finding in his wife a noble and loving companion, who with rare ability seconded his every effort.
Mrs. Sarah (Hyde) Jones, wife of Elam Jones, was born May 18, 1726, at Hartland, Connecticut, daughter of Uriah and Mehitable (Mar- vin) Hyde, formerly of Lyme, Connecticut. After a six weeks' trip from Barkhamstead, Connecticut, with her husband and baby daughter, Sarah Jones (afterwards Mrs. Jarvis Gates) arrived weary and perhaps homesick, on the 4th of July, 1805. Many years afterward she told her granddaughter, Miss Sarah P. Bushnell, that when they arrived at the center of the town- ship all the men of the locality were celebrating Independence Day by clearing the forest from the green. Upon this the schoolhouse soon arose, and in 1819 the church, which now stands as a reminder of the energy and perseverance of pioneer forefathers and mothers. This church is one of the historic buildings of the Western Reserve, and is said to be the first house of worship in Trumbull county, and one of the first adorned with a steeple, on the Western Reserve. It is now that part of the Centralized School used as a high school.
Mrs. Jones and her daughters furnished the dinners for the men who worked on the building, and Mrs. Philo Borden (Abigal Thompson), the suppers and lodging. Her daughters, Harriet Jones (afterwards Mrs. Linus Parker) and Electa Jones (afterwards Mrs. Eli Bushnell) carried all the dinners half a mile to save the time of the men. The farmers brought flax to Mrs. Jones, she spinning it into yarn, and her husband, with the help of his wife and daughters, made it into a rope three hundred feet long, by which the heavy timbers were lifted into the place they still occupy. Mr. Jones built the first tavern in the township, which now stands on the northeast corner of the public square, now belonging to the estate of the late Mrs. Rhoda Fowler Parsons, and for many years Mrs. .Jones was the agreeable, social hostess. It was long considered a rare treat for the Warren people to drive out to the "Jones Tavern," where they were entertained in royal style. Mrs. Jones lived to be almost ninety-five years of age, and most of the early history of Hartford township was obtained from her by her grandson, the late Thomas Andrews Bushnell, and her granddaughter, Sarah Pauline Bushnell. The children of Eli and Electa (Jones) Bushnell were: Thomas Andrews Bushnell, born 1829, died 1907; Cordelia Amanda, born January 13, 1832, married Florus Beardsley Plimpton in 1853 and is living at 1228 Sherman avenue, Allegheny, Penn- sylvania, and Sarah Pauline Bushnell.
Sarah Pauline Bushnell was born in Hartford, October 7, 1837, and still resides at the old homestead, much respected and loved by all who know her. Miss Bushnell is the recognized authority on township history, and contributed largely of her knowledge of the pioneer mothers of Hart- ford to the work known as the "Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the
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Western Reserve." Her researches have been liberally drawn upon for much of the subject matter of this sketch.
Miss Bushnell was educated in the public schools of her township and in the old Hartford Academic Institute, which furnished instruction equal to many of our modern colleges. When seventeen years of age she taught a school in Howland, then in Vienna. While visiting her aunt, Mrs. Le Myra (Jones) Hezlep, at St. Peter, Minnesota, she also taught some time in that place. On her return to Hartford she was called by Super- intendent James Marvin to take charge of one of the schools in Warren, and taught in that city for several consecutive years. In addition she taught at Kinsman several years; at Cleveland, Cincinnati, Sharon ( Penn- sylvania ) and at the high school in Hartford, only relinquishing this pro- fession to relieve her aged mother of the home duties. Early in life she united with the Congregational church and has always been a faithful, conscientious Christian lady. With her brother she did much to preserve the memories and early history of the pioneers of Hartford township.
When the Civil war broke out Miss Bushnell was one of the charter members of the "Aid Society and Sanitary Commission of Hartford," organized for the relief of the soldiers and their families. She has always given of her means and labor for the support of all philanthropie work. She has often been heard to say with pride that all four of her great- grandfathers fought in the war for Independence, several of her uncles in the war of 1812, and General Andrews Bushnell was an officer in that war, being wounded at Fort Erie; while not a few of her kinsmen fought and died that the "Union might be one and inseparable, now and forever."
The late Thomas Andrews Bushnell, although not born in this town- ship, lived here in the old homestead for nearly eighty years. Like his sister, Sarah P., he was educated in the schools of this place and in the Academic Institute. He was very proud of having pursued his course of instruction under such eminent teachers as John Lynch; the celebrated geologist, F. V. Hayden ; and Henderson Judd. It was always a source of great regret that circumstances were such that he was unable to attend college, but his whole life was given to study and the acquiring of knowl- edge. In 1860 he graduated from the Iron City Commercial College, at Pittsburg. When twenty-one years old he served as secretary of the first Republican primary held in Hartford township, and ever after voted that ticket. At the age of twenty-one he was elected township clerk, which office he filled for several years ; for a number of years was township treas- urer and for twenty consecutive years acted in the capacity of justice of the peace. He was a successful teacher, having taught the first high school in Fowler township in the early fifties. Mr. Bushnell was for many years president of the board of trustees of the Hartford Academic Institute, as well as a member of the Board of Education, always keeping at heart the educational interests of the township as well as any public improvement which was for the benefit of the community.
Mr. Bushnell was historian of the township, collecting with great care and accuracy the facts pertaining to the first century of its existence,
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which were published in the "History of Trumbull and Mahoning Coun- ties." He filled the office of president of the township centennial celebra- tion in 1899 and took great interest in preserving the memories of the pioneers. At an early age he united with the Congregational church and always took great interest in the spread of the Gospel. In his home and with his immediate friends were his refinement of character and nobility of soul best known and appreciated. As a friend he was most kind, stanch and true, very decided yet not arbitrary in his opinions: never compro- mising with sin or immorality. On September 1, 1906, Mr. Bushnell fell from a wagon, sustaining injuries which were the immediate cause of his death. He bore his terrible sufferings with his wonted fortitude, meeting the "Great Victor" without complaint or sigh, his soul passing from life's fitful fever into that mystic state where "the weary are at rest and the wicked cease from troubling."
Mrs. Cordelia (Bushnell) Plimpton, wife of Florus Beardsley Plimp- ton, formerly of Cincinnati, now of Allegheny, is an artist of considerable ability, having studied in Europe with Goode, Reifsthal and Schirmer. She has also won for herself an enviable reputation in the field of ceramics. having modeled a number of very valuable vases. Mrs. Plimpton was custodian of the Cincinnati department at the World's Columbian Expo- sition in 1893. She possesses considerable literary ability, having served as press correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial at the Paris Exposi- tion in 1878 and filled the same position at the Vienna Exposition.
DUDLEY S. TRACY, well known throughout Trumbull county as a justice of the peace and now a retired carriage and wagon builder of Hartford township, is a native of Hartford Center, where he was born May 4. 1829. His father, Azel Tracy, was a native of Connecticut, who came to Trumbull county about 1810, first locating at Warren and later at Hartford Center. He married a Miss Leffingweel, of this county, and one child was born to them, Charles, now deceased. Mr. Tracy's second wife was Phoebe Fitch, a daughter of Shalor Fitch, who was born November 2, 1267, her grandfather being John Fitch, the noted inventor, who con- structed the first steamboat to navigate the Delaware river, in 1787. Mr. and Mrs. Azel Tracy were the parents of three children: . Dudley S., of this review ; a daughter, who died in infancy, and James, who reached mature years, but is also deceased. In his early life the father learned the trade of a wagon maker and practically followed that occupation all his life. He was an earnest Whig and a radical abolitionist, being one of the leading promoters of the so-called "underground railroad," his shop being one of the stations on the line, at which slaves on their way to Canada were received for shelter until they could be forwarded. Through- out life he was also an earnest member of the Congregational church and took a leading part in its religious and charitable work.
Dudley S. Tracy was born, raised and educated in Hartford township and in early life learned the carriage trade under his father's instruction
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and has himself followed it the greater part of his life. In 1890 he engaged in pattern making and followed that skilled trade until 1904, when he retired on account of his age. He now resides upon a farm of sixty-five acres, but as he has never engaged in agriculture, prefers to rent his land. Mr. Tracy's wife was Miss Edna Ann Bishop, a daughter of Gaylord and Harriet Bishop, natives respectively of Connecticut and Vermont. Mrs. Tracy has for many years been active in the work of the Methodist church and was especially prominent in connection with the work of the Ladies' Aid Society during the Civil war. Mr. Tracy has always been a Republican and has taken active part in the local campaigns of his party. He has been twice eleeted to the office of justice of the peace and served as township clerk for several terms, and has otherwise been prominent in the publie affairs of the county. He is justly proud of his Masonic record, as he is probably the oldest member of the fraternity in Trumbull county, having been identified with the order for fifty-four years. He now belongs to Jerusalem Lodge No. 19, of Hartford.
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