Micajah Townsend Tryon

     Micajah Townsend Tryon was born on 28 January 1834 at Clarenceville, Missisquoi Co, Quebec.¹ He was the son of Benjamin Tryon and Hannah A. Salls. Micajah Townsend Tryon married Isadora Rice, daughter of Cornelius Rice, on 3 April 1855 at New York.¹ Micajah Townsend Tryon married Caroline Phoebe Adams, daughter of Daniel Adams, in 1895; After their marriage, they lived in a house on East Main Street in one one of the houses built by him until his death in 1902.² Micajah Townsend Tryon died on 8 August 1902 at Ogdensburg City Hospital, Ogdensburg, St Lawrence Co, New York, at age 68; "Last Friday at 7 PM occurred the death of Micajah Tryon. He died at Ogdensburg City Hospital where he had undergone a surgical operation. For several years Mr. Tryon had been a resident of Winthrop, and he was very highly respected by those who knew him. He leaves a wife and four children, Mrs. Alexander, Albert, Clement and Howard, of New Rochelle. His funeral was held Sunday at the M.E. church, Brasher Falls; interment at Brasher Falls."³ He was buried on 10 August 1902 at Fairview Cemetery, Brasher Falls, St Lawrence Co, New York.^3,1
     He appeared on the census of 22 August 1870 at Stockholm, St Lawrence Co, New York; Micajah Tryon, 35, Isadore, 32, Alfred, 12, Howard, 7, Della, 3; Sarah Burk, 16, and George Woolsworth, 15, domestic servants, as well as Lebbeus Curtis, 22, farm laborer.⁴