Richard Rundel Tryon Sr (1902 - 1978)

Born 13 Dec 1902 in Maumee, Lucas, Ohio, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Delicia Gertrude (Williams) Tryon — married 3 Jun 1925 (to 1955) in Toledo, Lucas, Ohio, USA

Died 15 Apr 1978 at age 75 in Maumee, Lucas, Ohio, United States

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Biography

Richard was born in 1902, son of Newton Eugene Tryon and Isabel Rundel. He married Delicia Gertrude Williams in 1925 and they had three children. He died in 1978.

Biography from "The Tryon Family in America" by Wesley Tryon, 1969, Second Edition published 1980 by Richard Rundel Tryon, Jr., son of the subject of this profile:

RICHARD RUNDEL TRYON 9.81a, son of Newton Eugene Tryon 8.131f and Isabella (Rundel) Tryon, was born in Maumee, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1902. He married Delicia Gertrude Williams, daughter of Williams Evans Williams and Gertrude Delicia (Abel) Williams, in 1921. She was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Dec. 24, 1903. They had three children:

Patricia Ann 10.85a,

Richard Rundel, Jr. 10.85b,

Carolyn Jean 10.85c.

At the time of his marriage he was managing editor of the Palm Beach Times and Sebring News, then small towns in Florida to which he had been sent following two years of college at Ohio State University in Columbus. His earliest experience as a reporter was with the Toledo Blade in Toledo, Ohio. His career was cut short in 1926 by the collapse of a real estate boon in Florida, and they moved to Odessa, Texas. There he restored a press and published the first newspaper in that then small town. Convinced that Odessa would not grow, he left three years later and relocated in Cincinnati, Ohio, taking employment with the Associated Press. His first-born daughter, Patricia, arrived during this, period. The Associated Press then moved him to Cleveland, Ohio, where son Richard and second daughter Carolyn were born. The A.P. sent the family then east to Bronxville, N.Y., where in 1937 he opened a printing business in Mount Vernon, publishing one of the earliest college weekly newspapers for New York University.

Unfortunately, the Mount Vernon printing venture failed financially and the family spent the next fifteen years moving from Bronxville, N. Y. , to Maumee, Ohio, to Harrington Park, N.J., to Silver Spring, Md., to Rye, N Y., and to Dutch Neck, and then Princeton, N.J.

During these years his career included a wide variety of editorial assignments and public relations jobs. He pioneered the Navy "E" program during World War II and worked with such organizations as the National Association of Manufacturers, National Association of Lumbermen, and served in an editorial capacity for McGraw-Hill, as the editor of Factory magazine. He started the National Chemergic Digest, published by the National Chemergic Counci1) and wrote one of the earliest definitive treatisies on modern industrial pension programs which had begun to come into existence in the last half of the 1940's, following World War II.

Economic hardship and the scattering of his family led to divorce from Gertrude (Williams) Tryon in 1955. In spite of several attempts at reconeiliation desired by both he and his wife, the opportunity for remarriage ended with the death of Gertrude in 1960. She is buried in Dutch Neck, N.J.

Most of the years between 1964 when his mother died in Maumee, Ohio, and his death on Apr. 15, 1978, were dedicated to the task of finishing a manuscript started in the 1940's. He lived in the family home in Maumee and searched endlessly for the logical arguments needed to set forth his desire to publish a book that would create for mankind a fuller understanding of God's universe and the events of history which have led to religious, moral, economic, and political confusion.

Although ill health slowed his ambitious undertaking, his determination was bolstered by the encouragement of Lucille Huffman of the nearby town of Sylvania, Ohio. They had planned to be married when the book was finished. He also had at least two inventions patented.

Sources

• "Ohio, County Births, 1841-2003", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6LN-7BF : 1 January 2021), Rundell Richard Tryon, 13 Dec 1902, Maumee, Lucas, Ohio, United States.

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLNB-HS4 : accessed 8 February 2021), Richard R Tryon in household of Newton E Tryon, Maumee, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 163, sheet 13A, family 36, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1210; FHL microfilm 1,375,223.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MD58-DLM : 3 February 2021), Richard Fryon in entry for Eugene Fryon, 1920.

• "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2Q3R-7G4 : 26 August 2019), Richard R Tryon and Gertrude Williams, 01 Jun 1925; citing Marriage, Lucas, Ohio, United States, , Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4SY-D6R : accessed 8 February 2021), Richard R Tryon, Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 33A, line 12, family 5, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1762; FHL microfilm 2,341,496.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWFT-TCM : 9 January 2021), Richard R Tryon in household of Newton E Tryon, Maumee, Maumee, Lucas, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 48-43, sheet 7A, line 22, family 150, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3106.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JKKP-VZK : 7 January 2021), Richard Tryon, Apr 1978; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).

• "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VKL5-ZTQ : 12 November 2019), Richard R Tryon, 15 Apr 1978, Maumee, Lucas, Ohio.

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 February 2021), memorial page for Richard Rundel Tryon Sr. (13 Dec 1902–15 Apr 1978), Find A Grave: Memorial #45224871, citing Wakeman Cemetery, Waterville, Lucas County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by Sherril Buckner (contributor 49500061).