Horatio Tyrrell

(From a biographical sketch of Henry Taft Culver)

On July 8, 1857, at North Ridgeville, at the home of Horatio and Eliza ( Lewis ) Tyrrell. he was married to their daughter, Helen E.. born October 29, 1832. in a log house on her father's farm, about one mile east from the center of North Ridgeville. Horatio Tyrrell was born November 14, 1805. at Waterbury, Connecticut, a son of Tillotson and Electa (Wilmot) Tyrrell, natives of Connecticut. In July of 1810 Tillotson Tyrrell moved from that commonwealth to Ohio, and he was the first man to settle in Ridgeville township, and Electa Wilmot Tyrrell was the first white woman to cross the Cuyahoga river west. Both Tillotson Tyrrell and his wife spent the remainder of their lives in Ridgeville township and died there. Horatio Tyrrell when a boy went to Portage county. Ohio, where he married, and returning to Ridgeville settled on the farm where he ever afterward lived, and where he died on the 25th of April. 1878. He married on the 13th of January, 1827. Eliza Lewis, born at Vernon, Oneida county, New York. March 7, 1806, a daughter of Oliver Lewis, born January 25, 1758. at Farmington, Connecticut, and he died March 21, 1830. at Ridgeville. Ohio. He married on March 13. 1783. Lucinda North, born July 16, 1762, and she died January 13, 1838, at Ridgeville. She was a daughter of David and Sarah North, of Worthington, Vermont. Oliver Lewis was a member of Lieutenant Bidwell's Company, which was called out during the Revolutionary war, he having entered the service on the 19th of August, 1776. He was by trade a miller, and he also gained a reputation as a bridge builder. On coming to the Western Reserve he settled at Mantua, in Portage county, and coming from there to Ridgeville he lived here during old age with his second son, Oliver H. Lewis. He was buried at North Ridgeville.

The children of Horatio and Eliza (Lewis) Tyrrell are:

Lucia A., the deceased wife of Nelson Salisbury ;

Edgar H., who married Mrs. Arabelle (King) Terrell, was a resident of Ridgeville, and he served as a Civil war soldier;

Sarah died before marriage ;

Helen E., who became Mrs. Culver ;

Marion, born August 10, 1835, married Darius Chamberlain on December 29, 1870, and she died in Cleveland, September 6, 1906;

S. Esther, born May 29, 1837, died September 13, 1850:

Frances E., born February 28, 1841, married John M. Stich, September 12, 1872, and moving to Clinton, Iowa, died there May 14, 1905 ;

Bert L., born March 19, 1843, married Lucinda Tyrrell on November 2, 1873, and resides in Cleveland ; and

Chase W., born November 25, 1846, married Celia Gill on April 7, 1872, and he died in Cleveland, May 17, 1908.

A daughter, Frances Helen, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Culver on the 22d of April, 1863, at LaPorte, Indiana. She married W. H. Snow on December 17, 1884, at Boston, Massachusetts, and Harold Culver Snow was born to them at Jamaica Plain, that state, January 7, 1886. He married Ena Mae Butler on October 6, 1909. She was born at Ridgeville, Ohio, November 11, 1882, a daughter of Theodore and Sarah Butler, of North Ridgeville.

Henry T. Culver is a Knight Templar Mason, a director in the Savings Deposit Bank and Trust Company, a former director in one of the Lorain banks, and he is interested in two Lorain banks and in all of the banks of Elyria save one. He is a representative business man and a public-spirited citizen.

Bibliographic information:

• History of the Western Reserve
• by Upton, Harriet Taylor; Cutler, Harry Gardner, 1856-
• Publication date 1910
• Topics Western Reserve (Ohio) -- History, genealogy
• Publisher Chicago ; New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
• Collection allen_county; americana
• Digitizing sponsor MSN
• Contributor Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
• Language English
• Volume 2
• Call number 31833024056142
• Camera Canon 5D
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• Openlibrary_edition OL14013418M
• Openlibrary_work OL5857724W
• Pages 886
• Possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
• Ppi 500
• Scandate 20080728155857
• Scanfactors 11
• Full catalog record MARCXML
• Page 952
• https://archive.org/details/historyofwestern02upto