Notable connections: the Dwyer and Tisdell/Connelly side of Jerome Edwin Dwyer (1939-2015)

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Notable connections: the Dwyer and Tisdell/Connelly side of Jerome Edwin Dwyer (1939-2015)

Research report, 6 October 2026. Nothing in the archive was changed. The scope was the father's side of Jerome Dwyer: John Dwyer and Mary Ryan; Cornelius S. Dwyer and Martha Ann Tisdell; Henry C. Tisdell and Elizabeth Connelly; Henry's sisters Bessie (Tisdell) Chisholm and Mary A. Quill; and Elizabeth's brothers James and Michael Thomas Connelly.

Tiers: [D] documented (a primary record, an index or transcript of one, or an obituary); [C] compiled (a county history, a family genealogy, a ship's cruise book, Wikipedia, an online tree); [I] inferred; [T] tradition. Ratings: proven / probable / possible / unproven.

Summary

  1. One famous-kin candidate with real evidence: Capt. Edgar John Boudinot Jr., USN (born at Turlock, California, c. 1920; death not found). He was a naval aviator with two Distinguished Flying Crosses, one from World War II and one from Korea. He commanded USS Bexar (APA-237) and then USS New Orleans (LPH-11), 1969-1970. He was CO while New Orleans was named and fitted out as primary recovery ship for Apollo 14, though command passed on 15 Dec 1970, before the February 1971 splashdown. He was the son of Edgar J. Boudinot and Agnes Lenora (Dwyer) Boudinot, Edwin C. Dwyer's sister, which makes him a first cousin of Jerome Dwyer. The link is Probable. His public footprint is modest: Navy publications and award citations, but no Wikipedia article. Suggested category: close.

  2. One unproven lead: Genevieve Belleveau (b. 1984, Bemidji), a performance artist with a Wikipedia article. She grew up at Puposky, Beltrami Co., Minn., the hamlet where Henry Tisdell's son Joseph settled. Joseph's daughter Mary Elizabeth Tisdell married Daniel Beliveau at Bemidji in 1924. No record links Genevieve to that couple. Not a connection until her grandparents are identified.

  3. Nothing notable found for the Chisholm, Quill and Connelly sub-branches, the Butte Daltons, the other Dwyer siblings, or the rest of Henry Tisdell's grandchildren. The searches are listed in Part 5. Several ancestors' siblings and in-laws held minor local offices (Part 2). These give color but not famous kin.

  4. New ancestor material. The two volumes of the 1916 Renville County history differ on several facts about Henry and Elizabeth Tisdell, and volume I adds a good deal; the archive has so far read only volume II.

    • Elizabeth Connelly lived at Cohoes, N.Y. before coming to Minnesota in 1854 "to keep house for her brothers". The Dwyers were also living at Cohoes in 1875.
    • The couple lived at Savage (then called Hamilton), Scott Co.
    • They homesteaded on section 10 and bought land on section 16. Section 16 was state school land, which explains the difference from volume II.
    • Their first house was an A-frame "roof set on the ground".
    • They retired to Northfield in 1910 and moved to Lakeville in May 1913.

    A 1936 Hayes family genealogy gives Joseph Tisdell's birth (23 Apr 1869, Hamilton, Minn.), his wife and nine children. The trade press shows that the Edwin C. Dwyer Co. was the Seattle parts-and-service agent for the Miehle Printing Press Co. from 1950. Seattle directories from 1966 to 1985 trace the company as Edwin C. Dwyer Co. Inc., dealing in printers' supplies and equipment at 126 Elliott Ave. W.

Part 1. Famous-kin candidates

1.1 Capt. Edgar John Boudinot Jr., USN (c. 1920 - ?)

  • Why notable. He was a career naval aviator:
    • Entered the Navy in 1942 as an aviation cadet. Commissioned ensign and designated Naval Aviator in November 1943.
    • Distinguished Flying Cross for 13 Oct 1944, as an ensign in the USNR: during an enemy aerial torpedo attack "he pressed home his attack on an enemy torpedo airplane ... and shot it down in flames."
    • Gold Star in lieu of a second DFC for 16 Jan 1952, as a lieutenant with Fighter Squadron 52 (VF-52) in Korea. He led division strikes on heavily defended rail bridges and made a lone high-speed damage-assessment pass, and his aircraft was hit four times.
    • Five Air Medals in all: three in World War II and two in Korea.
    • B.S., University of Maryland, 1960; M.S., George Washington University, 1965.
    • Commanding Officer of USS Bexar (APA-237) from September 1965.
    • Commanding Officer of USS New Orleans (LPH-11), 18 Dec 1969 - 15 Dec 1970. The ship was named primary recovery ship for Apollo 14 in September 1970 and prepared for it under him. His successor, Capt. Robert E. Moore, was in command for the recovery on 9 Feb 1971.
    • Next posting: the staff of Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, in London.
  • Sources for notability:
  • Suggested category: close. He is the first cousin of Jerome and a nephew of Edwin C. Dwyer. "public" would also fit.
  • Shared couple: Cornelius Sylvester Dwyer (1862-1941) and Martha Ann Tisdell (1863-1947). Through them he also descends from John Dwyer and Mary Ryan, and from Henry C. Tisdell and Elizabeth Connelly.
  • Line from the couple's child:
    1. Agnes Lenora Dwyer (1892/3-1976), m. Edgar John Boudinot, San Francisco, 5 June 1919
    2. Edgar John Boudinot Jr. (c. 1920 - ?)
  • Evidence by step:
    • Agnes, daughter of Cornelius and Martha. San Francisco marriage record of 5 June 1919, naming her parents Cornelius S. Dwyer and Martha Ann Tisdell (FamilySearch 1:1:QL41-174P) [D]. Already in the archive (Dwyer_Master_Research.md, section 4). Proven.
    • Edgar J. Jr., son of Edgar J. and Agnes L. Boudinot:
  • Overall confidence: Probable. A son "jr" living with Edgar J. and Agnes L. Boudinot in 1943, a Turlock birthplace, and the name Lenore all agree. No birth record has been seen. The California Birth Index gives the mother's maiden name and would make this Proven (expected: Boudinot, Edgar John, c. 1920, Stanislaus Co., mother's maiden name Dwyer). Also worth getting: his death record or obituary.
  • Relationship to Jerome Dwyer: first cousin (son of his father's sister).
  • Caveat on notability. No Wikipedia article was found. He is a decorated officer and ship's captain documented in Navy sources, not a public figure. Use him if "close" admits near kin of modest note; otherwise leave him out.

1.2 Lead only, not a connection: Genevieve Belleveau (b. 1984)

  • Why notable. A performance artist with a Wikipedia article: born in Bemidji, grew up at Puposky, Minn., and has a B.A. from Bennington College (2007). Works include The Church of gorgeousTaps and The Mobile Monastery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve_Belleveau [C]
  • Why she came up. Joseph Tisdell (b. 23 Apr 1869, Hamilton [now Savage], Minn.), son of Henry and Elizabeth (Connely) Tisdell, married Evelyn Brooks Hayes and lived at Puposky. All nine of their children were born there [C: Katharine F. Richmond, John Hayes of Dover, New Hampshire (1936), vol. II, p. 603, no. 808, https://archive.org/details/johnhayesofdover02rich]. Their eldest, Mary Elizabeth Tisdell (b. 22 May 1907), married Daniel Beliveau at Bemidji on 27 June 1924 [C, same]. Daniel was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Beliveau of Maple Ridge, near Puposky [D: Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 19 Feb 1913, p. 3, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1913-02-19/ed-1/?sp=3; 8 Aug 1922, p. 2, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1922-08-08/ed-1/?sp=2].
  • The gap. A 2013 Bemidji Pioneer article on the sculptor Caleb Belleveau lists these generations: father Al Belleveau (sculptor; mother Cate); grandfather Albert Belleveau, who brought a welder to the family land in the 1950s; and a great-great-grandfather who was "the smithy in the woods of Puposky". https://bemidjipioneer.com/entertainment/art/394871-bemidji-roots-influence-sculptor-caleb-third-generation-belleveau-take-art [C].
    • Nothing found names Genevieve's parents.
    • Nothing found names Albert Belleveau's parents.
    • Cyril Beliveau had at least three sons (Daniel, Charles, Martin), so a Puposky Belleveau need not descend from Daniel and Mary.
  • If the line held (Henry Tisdell → Joseph Tisdell → Mary Elizabeth (Tisdell) Beliveau → [Albert?] → [Al?] → Genevieve), she would be Jerome's second cousin twice removed. Rating: unproven (namesake and place only).
  • To settle it: obituaries of Albert Belleveau and of Daniel and Mary (Tisdell) Beliveau (Bemidji Pioneer; Beltrami County death records); the 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses of Beltrami County for Daniel Beliveau's household.

Part 2. Minor public footprints in the wider family (not famous kin)

These are offices and roles, not fame. They could give color to the ancestors' stories, or fill the "close" category only if the bar there is low.

  • Mrs. Mary Ann Quill and Thomas Quill, Cedar Lake Township, Scott Co., Minn.
    • Mary A. Quill was Henry Tisdell's probable sister. Curtiss-Wedge's Joseph Chisholm biography calls her "a sister of his mother", who was Bessie (Tisdell) Chisholm [C].
    • "In 1861 a school was taught by Mrs. Mary Ann Quill in a log house situated in the south-east quarter of section 7, where school No. 32 now is." This was one of the first schools in the township.
    • Cedar Lake's first town meeting was held "at the house of Thomas Quill, April 11, 1858", and he was elected chairman. He was also Cedar Lake's member of the first Scott County board of supervisors (1858).
    • Source: Neill and Bryant, History of the Minnesota Valley (1882), pp. 291, 340-341 [C]: https://archive.org/details/historyofminneso00nort
    • That Thomas was Mary Ann's husband is inferred (same surname and township) [I].
  • Michael Connelly and James Connelly, Burnsville Township, Dakota Co.
    • Elizabeth's brothers by name and place: the 1857 territorial census has Jas and M. C. Connolly in this township, and "Mike Connelly" was in Henry Tisdell's 1865 household [D, archive]. That they are these men is Probable [I].
    • Michael Connelly was clerk at the first recorded town meeting (3 Apr 1860) and clerk and justice in 1867. He is on the township's list of Civil War veterans.
    • J. Connelly was supervisor in 1865, and James Connelly in 1869.
    • Source: Curtiss-Wedge, History of Dakota and Goodhue Counties (1910), vol. I, pp. 436-439 [C]: https://archive.org/details/historyofdakotag11curt
    • The Civil War unit has not been looked up.
  • George H. Chisholm, the probable nephew raised in Henry's household in 1870-1875.
    • "G. H. Chisholm" was an incorporator of the Morton Elevator Co., 25 Feb 1897 (Curtiss-Wedge, Renville, vol. I, p. 537) [C].
    • The "old George Chisholm farm" was on section 17, Birch Cooley (vol. I, pp. 504-505) [C].
    • That this is the same George is inferred [I].
  • Thomas Tisdell, son of Henry, was a Norfolk Township supervisor in 1916 (Curtiss-Wedge, Renville, vol. II, Norfolk Township town officers) [C].
  • W. J. Tisdell, town clerk of Puposky, 1912 (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 16 Dec 1912, p. 7) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1912-12-16/ed-1/?sp=7. Very probably William, son of Henry (see Part 3.1, "the Puposky Tisdells").

Part 3. Notable-ancestor material

3.1 Henry C. Tisdell (c. 1837 Ireland - 29 Dec 1918, New Ulm)

What the two volumes of Curtiss-Wedge say. Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, History of Renville County (1916) has two family biographies. They come from different sons and do not fully agree. The archive has so far cited only the second.

Point Vol. I, pp. 386-387 (Thomas H. Tisdell) Vol. II, pp. 1117-1118 (Edward Tisdell) Records already in the archive
Henry's birth Ireland, 1837 Ireland; "seventy-eight" in 1916 (c. 1838) 1836-1840 [D]
Came to America 1852 1858 1850 (1900 census); 1863 (1910 census)
Marriage St. Louis, 1859 St. Louis, 1860 22 May 1860, St. Louis [D index]
Elizabeth born London, 1840; "came to America as a young girl, lived in Cohoes, New York, for a while, and in 1854 came to Minnesota to keep house for her brothers" (not given) 1857 territorial census with brothers Jas and M. C. Connolly [D]
After marriage "lived for a while in Savage, Minnesota" (not given) Burnsville, Dakota Co., 1865 [D]; son Joseph born 23 Apr 1869 at Hamilton, Minn. [C, Hayes genealogy]. Hamilton was renamed Savage in 1904 [C, Wikipedia]
Land "homesteaded land in section 10 and purchased land in section 16" "came to Renville county in 1870 where he homesteaded in section 16, securing 160 acres" BLM tract book entry, 30 May 1868 [D index]
First house "built with sloping walls, in the form of a letter A, had the appearance of a roof set on the ground" (not given)
Standing "With the years they prospered and became leading people in the community"
Retirement "In 1910 they retired. Then they moved to Northfield, Minn., residing there until May, 1913, when they moved to Lakeville" farmed section 16 "until 1910 and is now living with his son Edward" (1916) Elizabeth died at Lakeville Twp, 11 July 1913 [D]
Elizabeth's death "July 10, 1913, at the age of seventy-three years, after an illness of three weeks duration" "died July, 1913" 11 July 1913 (death record); 10 July (FaG)
Children "ten children, six boys and four girls" "six boys and five girls" (11) 1900 census: ten born, nine living [D]

Sources: vol. I, https://archive.org/details/historyofrenvill01curt (full text: https://archive.org/stream/historyofrenvill01curt/historyofrenvill01curt_djvu.txt); vol. II, https://archive.org/details/historyofrenvill02curt.

Section 10 versus section 16. Under the Organic Act of 1849 and the Enabling Act of 1857, sections 16 and 36 of every Minnesota township were school-trust land, granted to the state and sold by the state from 1862. They were not open to federal homestead entry [C: Minnesota DNR, Lexicon of State-Owned Lands, https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/lands_minerals/publications/lexicon_of_state_owned_lands.pdf]. Volume I is therefore very probably right: a federal homestead on section 10 and a purchase of state school land on section 16, where the home farm and Edward's birthplace were [I]. The 30 May 1868 tract-book entry is a good candidate for the section-10 homestead entry [I]. Reading that entry, and Henry's state school-land purchase certificate, would settle it.

Other points worth noting.

  • Cohoes. Elizabeth lived at Cohoes before 1854. John and Mary (Ryan) Dwyer were living at Cohoes in 1875 and were the Tisdells' next-door neighbours at Birch Cooley by 1880 [D, archive]. This may be coincidence. It could also be a Cohoes acquaintance that helped draw the Dwyers to Renville County [I, a hypothesis only].
  • Hamilton/Savage and Cedar Lake. Hamilton (now Savage) and Cedar Lake are both in Scott County. That is where Henry's probable sister Mary Ann Quill lived, and where she raised her orphaned nephew Joseph Chisholm [C]. So the Tisdell siblings were neighbours in Scott County in the 1860s [I].
  • The Puposky Tisdells. Two of Henry's sons settled at Puposky, Beltrami Co.:
    • Joseph Tisdell (b. 23 Apr 1869, Hamilton) married Evelyn Brooks Hayes (b. 31 May 1886, Fir, Marshall Co.), a descendant of John Hayes of Dover, N.H. Their children, all born at Puposky: Mary Elizabeth (1907; m. Daniel Beliveau 1924), Henry Charles (1909), Joseph Jr. (1911), Joseph (b. and d. 3 Feb 1913), Martha Nellie (1914), Nellie Lydia (1915), Frank (1917), Sarah (1918), Edward (1920) [C, Richmond (1936), vol. II, p. 603].
    • Joseph was posting notices and working on the Puposky-Maple Ridge county road in 1907 (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 17 Apr 1907, p. 5) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1907-04-17/ed-1/?sp=5
    • "Mrs. Joseph Tisdell" hosted the Larkin club at Puposky in June 1917, with a recitation by "Mary Tisdell" (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, 29 June 1917, p. 4) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1917-06-29/ed-1/?sp=4
    • W. (W. J.) Tisdell was town clerk of Puposky (16 Dec 1912) and farmed "between Puposky and Foulds" (1 Feb 1919, p. 1) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1919-02-01/ed-1/?sp=1
    • Other Tisdell children at Puposky, not among Joseph's: Vernae (Vernie), Dorothy, Flora and Clarence. Vernae and Flora attended high school in Bemidji, and their grandfather was N. G. Reynolds (27 July 1921, p. 4; 31 Mar 1922, p. 3) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1922-03-31/ed-1/?sp=3. They are very probably W. J.'s children by a Reynolds wife [I].
    • That W. J. is Henry's son William (c. 1874-1953) is Probable [I: he lived beside his brother Joseph, and the surname is rare].
  • Thomas H. Tisdell (b. 7 Feb 1865, Dakota Co.) married Ellen Lorden on 28 Jan 1896. She was a daughter of Dennis Lorden and Mary Connelly (vol. I, p. 387) [C]. Whether Mary (Connelly) Lorden was kin to Elizabeth Connelly (a niece, say) is an open question. Nothing found says so.
  • Edward Tisdell's line. Edward (b. 7 June 1880, section 16) married Charlotte Nuens, 10 Jan 1910. Their son Eugene Edward Tisdell (31 Jan 1928 - 5 Jan 2022) farmed near Morton for 35 years, worked 13 years for Renville County, and served in the Army in the Korean War. Obituary [D]: https://www.hafh.org/obituary/Eugene-Tisdell

Suggested short life story (each sentence is drawn from the sources above):

Henry Tisdell was born in Ireland about 1837 and came to America in the 1850s. On 22 May 1860, at St. Louis, he married Elizabeth Connelly, a London-born girl who had lived at Cohoes, New York, before coming to Minnesota in 1854 to keep house for her brothers. The couple lived first at Hamilton (now Savage) in Scott County and at Burnsville in Dakota County. They then went west to Birch Cooley Township in Renville County, where the Battle of Birch Coulee had been fought in 1862. There they homesteaded on section 10 and bought school land on section 16. Their first house had sloping walls in the shape of a letter A, "a roof set on the ground". They prospered, had ten children, and became, in a son's words, "leading people in the community." In 1910 they retired to Northfield and in 1913 to Lakeville, where Elizabeth died that July. Henry spent his last years with his son Edward on the home farm and died at New Ulm on 29 December 1918. He was buried at St. John's, Morton.

Still missing: Henry's obituary (New Ulm Review or Morton Enterprise, January 1919; neither was reachable in Chronicling America for that month); his death certificate (no. 2056); the section-10 homestead file.

3.2 Edwin C. Dwyer and the Edwin C. Dwyer Co.

New documentation from this pass

Suggested short life story:

Edwin Cornelius Dwyer was born at Birch Cooley, Renville County, Minnesota, on 8 July 1897. After moves to Otter Tail County and Montana, he grew up from about age twelve at Turlock in California's San Joaquin Valley. He was working for the Turlock Irrigation District when he registered for the draft in 1918, and served in the Army in the First World War. In 1935 he left San Francisco for Seattle, married Winifred Flynn at Portland that November, and went into the printing-machinery trade. In 1942 he was with the Harry W. Brintnall Co., the Pacific Coast distributors of bookbinding machinery. By 1950 his own Edwin C. Dwyer Co. was the agent that stocked Miehle press parts and serviced Miehle presses in Washington. Its men erected new presses in Seattle plants, and Winifred kept the office. He belonged to the Knights of Columbus, the Holy Name Society and the Craftsmen's Club, and died at Seattle on 11 September 1969. The company outlived him. As Edwin C. Dwyer Co. Inc., dealers in printers' supplies and equipment at 126 Elliott Avenue West, it was run by his widow and their son Jerome into the 1980s.

Still missing: Washington corporation records (the Secretary of State's search blocked automated access); Seattle directories for 1936-1965 (not full-text searchable on archive.org); the founding notice in Inland Printer or Pacific Printer.

3.3 John Dwyer's moves: context

Where and when What was there Sources
Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., N.Y., c. 1848 An Erie Canal town. The canal was being enlarged through the 1840s-1850s by largely Irish labor. Any link to John's work is [I] only. (general; no record of John's work)
Ohio, c. 1852 Son William's birthplace. The reason for the move is unknown.
Moriah (Mineville/Port Henry), Essex Co., N.Y., c. 1853-55 Iron mining. Large operations at Mineville and Witherbee began about 1850, and the Cheever ore bed "began to be worked seriously" in 1853. "The boom in iron trade first drew Irish settlers in the 1840s," and the Irish "soon constituted most of the town." Witherbee, Sherman & Co. (1862) became the dominant firm. [C] Town of Moriah history, https://www.townofmoriahny.gov/?p=2100 ; CLUI, https://clui.org/projects/adirondack/explore-adirondack_park/mineville-mine-pit ; Passage Port, https://passageport.org/journey/the-story-of-iron-in-crown-point-moriah/13-the-heart-of-mineville/
Black Brook, Clinton Co., N.Y., 1860-1870 The J. & J. Rogers iron works, sole proprietors of the Black Brook forges from 1835. Ten forge fires there produced 75 tons of blooms a week; 22 fires across the firm's works; 43 covered charcoal kilns; "a landed estate exceeding fifty thousand acres ... to secure an inexhaustible supply of fuel"; ore "derived wholly from the Palmer mine". Town population 3,452 (1860), 3,561 (1870). [C] W. C. Watson (1869) via https://localwiki.org/hsl/Black_Brook ; Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Brook,_New_York
Cohoes, Albany Co., N.Y., 1875 The Harmony Mills. By the late 1860s they had 203,000 spindles, "the largest number of spindles in the United States for a single location". Mill No. 3 was 1,185 ft long. In the 1860s the workers were "largely made up of young, unmarried Irish women", and child labor tripled 1860-1880. The family's daughters, then 16-21, were of mill age [I]. The 1875 census occupations are still unread. Elizabeth Connelly had lived at Cohoes before 1854 (above). [C] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Mills
Birch Cooley Twp, Renville Co., Minn., 1880; Bandon Twp 1885 Prairie and coulee country above the Minnesota River, where the Battle of Birch Coulee (2-3 Sept 1862) cost U.S. forces their heaviest casualties of the Dakota War. The township was organized in 1867. Morton village, in the southeast of the township, later grew up around granite quarries and the M. & St. L. railway. [C] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Birch_Coulee ; Curtiss-Wedge vol. II, pp. 884-885

The pattern is Irish industrial labor in New York's iron and textile towns, then a late move to Minnesota farmland. It fits a family working its way from wages to land [I]. No record says what John did before 1880. The 1875 Cohoes census page should show occupations.

Part 4. Checked and ruled out (unrelated or unproven)

Person or record Why not a connection
Edwin C. Dwyer of Portland, Ore.: lumberman (Dwyer Fuel Co., Dwyer Lumber & Plywood), Port of Portland, bank director; Univ. of Oregon '27, Phi Delta Theta; in Who's Who on the Pacific Coast (1951) and Who's Who in the West (1951, 1956) Unrelated namesake. A Portland family (Anthony J., Robert F. Dwyer). The Who's Who entries could be read only through index snippets; they are very probably this Portland businessman, not Edwin of Seattle [I].
Rev. Edwin C. Dwyer, J.C.L., Diocese of Saginaw; Edwin C. Dwyer of Franklin, N.H.; E. C. Dwyer, honorary pallbearer, San Francisco 1926 (Organized Labor); seaman Edwin Dwyer, HMS Dorsetshire murder trial, Hong Kong 1938 Unrelated namesakes.
Elias Boudinot (1740-1821), Elias Boudinot (Cherokee, d. 1839), Elias Cornelius Boudinot, Brig. Gen. Truman E. Boudinot No link found to Edgar J. Boudinot's family. Even if one existed, they would be kin of Agnes Dwyer's husband, not of Jerome.
Tisdell/Tisdall namesakes on Wikipedia: Clem Tisdell (Australian economist), Steph Tisdell, Tonia and Terrence Tisdell (Liberian footballers), Keith Tisdell, Christopher C. Tisdell, Elizabeth Tisdell, Peggy Dell (born Margaret Tisdell, Irish singer); Mark Tisdel (Michigan legislator) No linking evidence. Different countries and families.
Lt. Moses H. Tisdell (Worcester, Spanish-American War) and the New England Tisdales The colonial Tisdale family of Massachusetts. Henry was Irish-born. Unrelated.
Hugh Connelly, sheriff of Dakota Co. for nine years (m. Sarah, of Rosemount) Namesake in the same county. No link found to Thomas Connelly's children. Unproven.
"M. J. Dwyer, aged 65", said to have died on the steps of the Butte library, with the funeral "from the residence of Mr. J. Dalton, 312 E. Granite" Seen only in a search-engine summary of a Utah Digital Newspapers page (https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=4116371 or ?id=4091833) that refused direct access. Unverified. It is not Michael J. Dwyer (1849-1935, Bronx). Possibly kin of the Butte Daltons; a lead only.
Genevieve Belleveau See 1.2: unproven (namesake and place only).
William Wichman (Renville Co. sheriff and legislator) and other Wikipedia "People from Renville County / Olivia / Redwood Falls / Bird Island / Turlock / Lakeville / Bemidji" entries Category lists scanned. No family surnames except Belleveau.

Part 5. What was searched, by sub-branch ("nothing notable found" results)

  • Tisdell descendants (Thomas H., Joseph, William, James, Frank, Edward Tisdell; Sarah Lucy Tracy, Arizona; Mary Margaret Dey, California; Ella Wicks, Washington):
    • Wikipedia full-text search for "Tisdell" and "Tisdell" + Minnesota.
    • Wikipedia "People from ..." categories for Renville County, Olivia, Redwood Falls, Bird Island, Lakeville, Bemidji, Turlock and Butte.
    • archive.org full-text search (Tisdell + Morton/Minn/Puposky).
    • Chronicling America (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, Redwood Gazette).
    • Web searches for Tracy/Dey/Wicks obituaries; WikiTree (no profiles for this family).
    • Found: the Puposky families, the Hayes genealogy, Eugene E. Tisdell's obituary. No notable descendant found.
  • Chisholm (Bessie Tisdell's line): Curtiss-Wedge vols. I-II; web searches for Joseph Chisholm's children (Ross, Edgar, Raymond, Elmer, Ambrose, and daughters Mrs. Carr and Mrs. Clancy). Nothing notable.
  • Quill (Mary A. Quill): History of the Minnesota Valley (1882); web and Wikipedia searches. Only the local offices in Part 2.
  • Connelly (James; Michael Thomas): History of Dakota and Goodhue Counties (1910), Wikipedia and web. Only the local offices in Part 2.
  • Dwyer siblings of Cornelius:
    • Kate Dalton of Butte: Chronicling America has no Butte or Anaconda papers for Oct 1908; montananewspapers.org was blocked by the proxy.
    • John J. Dwyer (Butte), Mary Ann McCauley (Vermont), Michael J. Dwyer (Bronx), William (Ohio/Indianapolis/Covington): web and archive.org searches.
    • Nothing found.
  • Cornelius's grandchildren (Boudinot, Neuman, Golden, and the children of Henry V., Lawrence L., John F. and Raymond P. Dwyer):
    • archive.org full text of San Francisco and Monterey directories; Navy registers and journals; web searches.
    • Found Capt. Edgar J. Boudinot Jr. Nothing found for the Golden, Neuman or other Dwyer grandchildren.
  • Patricia (Dwyer) Mulka's descendants were not researched (living people).
  • Not reachable from here: Find a Grave, Ancestry, FamilySearch, MNHS people search, Minnesota Official Marriage System, California Birth Index sites, Washington Secretary of State, montananewspapers.org, Utah Digital Newspapers. HathiTrust and the Google Books API were also unavailable (HathiTrust blocked with a 403; the Google Books API was over its quota).

Part 6. New facts and conflicts to raise with the user (not applied)

  1. Joseph Tisdell: born 23 Apr 1869 at Hamilton (now Savage), Minn.; married Evelyn Brooks Hayes (b. 31 May 1886, Fir, Marshall Co.); lived at Puposky, Beltrami Co.; nine children named (3.1) [C, Richmond 1936]. The archive has "c. 1868-72".
  2. Thomas H. Tisdell: born 7 Feb 1865, Dakota Co.; married Ellen Lorden 28 Jan 1896; nine children named in vol. I, p. 387 [C].
  3. Henry and Elizabeth:
    • Immigration 1852 versus 1858, and marriage year 1859 versus 1860: the two Curtiss-Wedge volumes conflict.
    • Elizabeth lived at Cohoes and came to Minnesota in 1854.
    • The couple lived at Savage (Hamilton).
    • Homestead on section 10 and purchase on section 16 (section 16 was school land).
    • The A-frame first house.
    • Retirement to Northfield in 1910 and Lakeville in May 1913.
    • Elizabeth's age at death given as 73.
  4. Edwin's house number: 5605 6th Av NW in the directories, versus S.W. in the archive.
  5. Edwin's 1942 employer: the Harry W. Brintnall Co. was a San Francisco-based Pacific Coast distributor of bookbinding and printing machinery with a Seattle branch since at least 1934. This is a possible thread back to his San Francisco years.
  6. Edwin C. Dwyer Co. Inc.: Miehle parts and service agent (1950); 126 Elliott Av W (1973-1985); Burien (2014-15); officers in the 1970s-80s as listed in 3.2.
  7. Agnes (Dwyer) Boudinot's husband and son: Edgar J. Boudinot Sr. was a career Navy machinist, later Chief Machinist and CWO-2; the family lived at 963 Hayes St. (1931) and 1255 33rd Ave., San Francisco (1941-43). Their son Capt. Edgar J. Boudinot Jr. is described in 1.1.
  1. # Notable connections: the Dwyer and Tisdell/Connelly side of Jerome Edwin Dwyer (1939-2015)
  3. Research report, 6 October 2026. Nothing in the archive was changed. The scope was the father's side of Jerome Dwyer: John Dwyer and Mary Ryan; Cornelius S. Dwyer and Martha Ann Tisdell; Henry C. Tisdell and Elizabeth Connelly; Henry's sisters Bessie (Tisdell) Chisholm and Mary A. Quill; and Elizabeth's brothers James and Michael Thomas Connelly.
  5. Tiers: [D] documented (a primary record, an index or transcript of one, or an obituary); [C] compiled (a county history, a family genealogy, a ship's cruise book, Wikipedia, an online tree); [I] inferred; [T] tradition. Ratings: proven / probable / possible / unproven.
  7. ---
  9. ## Summary
  11. 1. **One famous-kin candidate with real evidence: Capt. Edgar John Boudinot Jr., USN** (born at Turlock, California, c. 1920; death not found). He was a naval aviator with two Distinguished Flying Crosses, one from World War II and one from Korea. He commanded USS *Bexar* (APA-237) and then USS *New Orleans* (LPH-11), 1969-1970. He was CO while *New Orleans* was named and fitted out as primary recovery ship for Apollo 14, though command passed on 15 Dec 1970, before the February 1971 splashdown. He was the son of Edgar J. Boudinot and **Agnes Lenora (Dwyer) Boudinot**, Edwin C. Dwyer's sister, which makes him **a first cousin of Jerome Dwyer**. The link is **Probable**. His public footprint is modest: Navy publications and award citations, but no Wikipedia article. Suggested category: **close**.
  12. 2. **One unproven lead: Genevieve Belleveau** (b. 1984, Bemidji), a performance artist with a Wikipedia article. She grew up at Puposky, Beltrami Co., Minn., the hamlet where Henry Tisdell's son Joseph settled. Joseph's daughter Mary Elizabeth Tisdell married Daniel Beliveau at Bemidji in 1924. No record links Genevieve to that couple. **Not a connection** until her grandparents are identified.
  13. 3. **Nothing notable found** for the Chisholm, Quill and Connelly sub-branches, the Butte Daltons, the other Dwyer siblings, or the rest of Henry Tisdell's grandchildren. The searches are listed in Part 5. Several ancestors' siblings and in-laws held minor local offices (Part 2). These give color but not famous kin.
  14. 4. **New ancestor material.** The two volumes of the 1916 Renville County history differ on several facts about Henry and Elizabeth Tisdell, and volume I adds a good deal; the archive has so far read only volume II.
  15. - Elizabeth Connelly **lived at Cohoes, N.Y.** before coming to Minnesota in 1854 "to keep house for her brothers". The Dwyers were also living at Cohoes in 1875.
  16. - The couple lived at **Savage (then called Hamilton), Scott Co.**
  17. - They **homesteaded on section 10 and bought land on section 16**. Section 16 was state school land, which explains the difference from volume II.
  18. - Their first house was **an A-frame "roof set on the ground"**.
  19. - They retired to **Northfield in 1910 and moved to Lakeville in May 1913**.
  21. A 1936 Hayes family genealogy gives **Joseph Tisdell's birth (23 Apr 1869, Hamilton, Minn.), his wife and nine children**. The trade press shows that **the Edwin C. Dwyer Co. was the Seattle parts-and-service agent for the Miehle Printing Press Co. from 1950**. Seattle directories from 1966 to 1985 trace the company as Edwin C. Dwyer Co. Inc., dealing in printers' supplies and equipment at 126 Elliott Ave. W.
  23. ---
  25. ## Part 1. Famous-kin candidates
  27. ### 1.1 Capt. Edgar John Boudinot Jr., USN (c. 1920 - ?)
  29. - **Why notable.** He was a career naval aviator:
  30. - Entered the Navy in 1942 as an aviation cadet. Commissioned ensign and designated Naval Aviator in November 1943.
  31. - **Distinguished Flying Cross for 13 Oct 1944**, as an ensign in the USNR: during an enemy aerial torpedo attack "he pressed home his attack on an enemy torpedo airplane ... and shot it down in flames."
  32. - **Gold Star in lieu of a second DFC for 16 Jan 1952**, as a lieutenant with Fighter Squadron 52 (VF-52) in Korea. He led division strikes on heavily defended rail bridges and made a lone high-speed damage-assessment pass, and his aircraft was hit four times.
  33. - Five Air Medals in all: three in World War II and two in Korea.
  34. - B.S., University of Maryland, 1960; M.S., George Washington University, 1965.
  35. - **Commanding Officer of USS *Bexar* (APA-237)** from September 1965.
  36. - **Commanding Officer of USS *New Orleans* (LPH-11), 18 Dec 1969 - 15 Dec 1970.** The ship was named primary recovery ship for Apollo 14 in September 1970 and prepared for it under him. His successor, Capt. Robert E. Moore, was in command for the recovery on 9 Feb 1971.
  37. - Next posting: the staff of Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Naval Forces Europe, in London.
  38. - **Sources for notability:**
  39. - USS *New Orleans* (LPH-11) cruise book, 1971, p. 16 (ship's biography of Capt. Boudinot) [C]: https://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/New_Orleans_LPH_11_Cruise_Book/1971/Page_16.html
  40. - Military Times Hall of Valor, both DFC citations, service no. 0-326176 [C, transcribing the citations]: https://valor.militarytimes.com/?p=335963
  41. - *All Hands*, Dec. 1953, pp. 55-56 (page uncertain in the OCR), "Gold star in lieu of second award" under "For heroism or extraordinary achievement in aerial flight" [D]: https://archive.org/details/allhands4314unit
  42. - Wikipedia, USS *New Orleans* (LPH-11), for the Apollo 14 recovery date [C]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_New_Orleans_(LPH-11)
  43. - **Suggested category:** close. He is the first cousin of Jerome and a nephew of Edwin C. Dwyer. "public" would also fit.
  44. - **Shared couple:** Cornelius Sylvester Dwyer (1862-1941) and Martha Ann Tisdell (1863-1947). Through them he also descends from John Dwyer and Mary Ryan, and from Henry C. Tisdell and Elizabeth Connelly.
  45. - **Line from the couple's child:**
  46. 1. Agnes Lenora Dwyer (1892/3-1976), m. Edgar John Boudinot, San Francisco, 5 June 1919
  47. 2. Edgar John Boudinot Jr. (c. 1920 - ?)
  48. - **Evidence by step:**
  49. - *Agnes, daughter of Cornelius and Martha.* San Francisco marriage record of 5 June 1919, naming her parents Cornelius S. Dwyer and Martha Ann Tisdell (FamilySearch 1:1:QL41-174P) [D]. Already in the archive (Dwyer_Master_Research.md, section 4). **Proven.**
  50. - *Edgar J. Jr., son of Edgar J. and Agnes L. Boudinot:*
  51. - **San Francisco directories** [D]:
  52. - 1931: "Boudinot Edgar J (Agnes) h963 Hayes": https://archive.org/details/polkscrockerlang0000vari_k2f5
  53. - 1941: "Boudinot Edgar J (Agnes L) eng h1255 33d av": https://archive.org/details/polkscrockerlang0000vari_i8x0
  54. - **1943: "Boudinot Edgar J (Agnes L) USN hil255 33d av" (OCR for h1255), then "Edgar J jr USN 11255 33d av" (OCR for r1255), then "» Edna M sten Pan Am Airways r1255 33d av"**: a son, and apparently another family member, residing at the same house in the Polk convention. The OCR text is open in the scan https://archive.org/details/polkscrockerlang0000vari_i6l3 (file polkscrockerlang0000vari_i6l3_djvu.txt, around line 109241, on or next to printed p. 178; the archive.org metadata misdates this scan to 1909, but its title is the 1943 directory). A second scan of the same directory, polkscrockerlang0000vari_t1m1, is a lending item and was read only through archive.org full-text-search snippets.
  55. - **Born at Turlock, California** [C, cruise-book biography]. Cornelius and Martha Dwyer's family lived at Turlock (Route 4, Box 135) from about 1909 to 1920 [D, archive], and Agnes married in 1919. A first child born at her parents' home there about 1920 fits [I].
  56. - **He named a daughter "Jessica Lenore"**: born at the Army hospital, Fort Ord, in June 1953, "to Lt & Mrs Edgar J Boudinot". This echoes his mother's middle name, Lenora [D for the birth notice: *Army, Navy, Air Force Journal*, 18 July 1953, https://archive.org/details/sim_armed-forces-journal_1953-07-18_90_46; I for the inference].
  57. - His father, Edgar J. Boudinot Sr., was also career Navy. He was a machinist promoted to Chief Machinist (warrant officer) in 1942 (*Army and Navy Journal*, 16 Sep 1942, https://archive.org/details/sim_armed-forces-journal_1942-09-16_80_7) and later carried as CWO-2, retired, in the Navy registers [D].
  58. - Monterey directory, 1953: "Boudinot Edgar J jr (Heather S) USN" [D]: https://archive.org/details/ccarm_005839
  59. - Congressional Record, 1964: "Boudinot, Edgar J., Jr." on a Navy promotion list [D]: https://archive.org/details/sim_congressional-record-proceedings-and-debates_august-20-september-8-1964_110
  60. - **Overall confidence: Probable.** A son "jr" living with Edgar J. and Agnes L. Boudinot in 1943, a Turlock birthplace, and the name Lenore all agree. No birth record has been seen. The California Birth Index gives the mother's maiden name and would make this Proven (expected: Boudinot, Edgar John, c. 1920, Stanislaus Co., mother's maiden name Dwyer). Also worth getting: his death record or obituary.
  61. - **Relationship to Jerome Dwyer:** first cousin (son of his father's sister).
  62. - **Caveat on notability.** No Wikipedia article was found. He is a decorated officer and ship's captain documented in Navy sources, not a public figure. Use him if "close" admits near kin of modest note; otherwise leave him out.
  64. ### 1.2 Lead only, not a connection: Genevieve Belleveau (b. 1984)
  66. - **Why notable.** A performance artist with a Wikipedia article: born in Bemidji, grew up at Puposky, Minn., and has a B.A. from Bennington College (2007). Works include *The Church of gorgeousTaps* and *The Mobile Monastery*. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genevieve_Belleveau [C]
  67. - **Why she came up.** Joseph Tisdell (b. 23 Apr 1869, Hamilton [now Savage], Minn.), son of Henry and Elizabeth (Connely) Tisdell, married Evelyn Brooks Hayes and lived at **Puposky**. All nine of their children were born there [C: Katharine F. Richmond, *John Hayes of Dover, New Hampshire* (1936), vol. II, p. 603, no. 808, https://archive.org/details/johnhayesofdover02rich]. Their eldest, **Mary Elizabeth Tisdell (b. 22 May 1907), married Daniel Beliveau at Bemidji on 27 June 1924** [C, same]. Daniel was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Beliveau of Maple Ridge, near Puposky [D: *Bemidji Daily Pioneer*, 19 Feb 1913, p. 3, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1913-02-19/ed-1/?sp=3; 8 Aug 1922, p. 2, https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1922-08-08/ed-1/?sp=2].
  68. - **The gap.** A 2013 *Bemidji Pioneer* article on the sculptor Caleb Belleveau lists these generations: father Al Belleveau (sculptor; mother Cate); grandfather Albert Belleveau, who brought a welder to the family land in the 1950s; and a great-great-grandfather who was "the smithy in the woods of Puposky". https://bemidjipioneer.com/entertainment/art/394871-bemidji-roots-influence-sculptor-caleb-third-generation-belleveau-take-art [C].
  69. - Nothing found names Genevieve's parents.
  70. - Nothing found names Albert Belleveau's parents.
  71. - Cyril Beliveau had at least three sons (Daniel, Charles, Martin), so a Puposky Belleveau need not descend from Daniel and Mary.
  72. - **If the line held** (Henry Tisdell → Joseph Tisdell → Mary Elizabeth (Tisdell) Beliveau → [Albert?] → [Al?] → Genevieve), she would be Jerome's second cousin twice removed. **Rating: unproven (namesake and place only).**
  73. - **To settle it:** obituaries of Albert Belleveau and of Daniel and Mary (Tisdell) Beliveau (Bemidji Pioneer; Beltrami County death records); the 1930, 1940 and 1950 censuses of Beltrami County for Daniel Beliveau's household.
  75. ---
  77. ## Part 2. Minor public footprints in the wider family (not famous kin)
  79. These are offices and roles, not fame. They could give color to the ancestors' stories, or fill the "close" category only if the bar there is low.
  81. - **Mrs. Mary Ann Quill and Thomas Quill, Cedar Lake Township, Scott Co., Minn.**
  82. - Mary A. Quill was Henry Tisdell's probable sister. Curtiss-Wedge's Joseph Chisholm biography calls her "a sister of his mother", who was Bessie (Tisdell) Chisholm [C].
  83. - "In 1861 a school was taught by Mrs. Mary Ann Quill in a log house situated in the south-east quarter of section 7, where school No. 32 now is." This was one of the first schools in the township.
  84. - Cedar Lake's first town meeting was held "at the house of Thomas Quill, April 11, 1858", and he was elected chairman. He was also Cedar Lake's member of the first Scott County board of supervisors (1858).
  85. - Source: Neill and Bryant, *History of the Minnesota Valley* (1882), pp. 291, 340-341 [C]: https://archive.org/details/historyofminneso00nort
  86. - That Thomas was Mary Ann's husband is **inferred** (same surname and township) [I].
  87. - **Michael Connelly and James Connelly, Burnsville Township, Dakota Co.**
  88. - Elizabeth's brothers by name and place: the 1857 territorial census has Jas and M. C. Connolly in this township, and "Mike Connelly" was in Henry Tisdell's 1865 household [D, archive]. That they are these men is Probable [I].
  89. - Michael Connelly was clerk at the first recorded town meeting (3 Apr 1860) and clerk and justice in 1867. He is on the township's list of Civil War veterans.
  90. - J. Connelly was supervisor in 1865, and James Connelly in 1869.
  91. - Source: Curtiss-Wedge, *History of Dakota and Goodhue Counties* (1910), vol. I, pp. 436-439 [C]: https://archive.org/details/historyofdakotag11curt
  92. - The Civil War unit has not been looked up.
  93. - **George H. Chisholm**, the probable nephew raised in Henry's household in 1870-1875.
  94. - "G. H. Chisholm" was an incorporator of the Morton Elevator Co., 25 Feb 1897 (Curtiss-Wedge, *Renville*, vol. I, p. 537) [C].
  95. - The "old George Chisholm farm" was on section 17, Birch Cooley (vol. I, pp. 504-505) [C].
  96. - That this is the same George is inferred [I].
  97. - **Thomas Tisdell**, son of Henry, was a Norfolk Township supervisor in 1916 (Curtiss-Wedge, *Renville*, vol. II, Norfolk Township town officers) [C].
  98. - **W. J. Tisdell**, town clerk of Puposky, 1912 (*Bemidji Daily Pioneer*, 16 Dec 1912, p. 7) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1912-12-16/ed-1/?sp=7. Very probably William, son of Henry (see Part 3.1, "the Puposky Tisdells").
  100. ---
  102. ## Part 3. Notable-ancestor material
  104. ### 3.1 Henry C. Tisdell (c. 1837 Ireland - 29 Dec 1918, New Ulm)
  106. **What the two volumes of Curtiss-Wedge say.** Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, *History of Renville County* (1916) has two family biographies. They come from different sons and do not fully agree. The archive has so far cited only the second.
  108. | Point | Vol. I, pp. 386-387 (Thomas H. Tisdell) | Vol. II, pp. 1117-1118 (Edward Tisdell) | Records already in the archive |
  109. |---|---|---|---|
  110. | Henry's birth | Ireland, 1837 | Ireland; "seventy-eight" in 1916 (c. 1838) | 1836-1840 [D] |
  111. | Came to America | **1852** | **1858** | 1850 (1900 census); 1863 (1910 census) |
  112. | Marriage | St. Louis, **1859** | St. Louis, **1860** | 22 May 1860, St. Louis [D index] |
  113. | Elizabeth | born **London, 1840**; "came to America as a young girl, **lived in Cohoes, New York, for a while, and in 1854 came to Minnesota to keep house for her brothers**" | (not given) | 1857 territorial census with brothers Jas and M. C. Connolly [D] |
  114. | After marriage | "lived for a while in **Savage, Minnesota**" | (not given) | Burnsville, Dakota Co., 1865 [D]; son Joseph born 23 Apr 1869 at **Hamilton**, Minn. [C, Hayes genealogy]. Hamilton was renamed Savage in 1904 [C, Wikipedia] |
  115. | Land | "**homesteaded land in section 10 and purchased land in section 16**" | "came to Renville county in 1870 where he homesteaded in section 16, securing 160 acres" | BLM tract book entry, 30 May 1868 [D index] |
  116. | First house | "built with sloping walls, in the form of a letter A, had the appearance of a roof set on the ground" | (not given) | |
  117. | Standing | "With the years they prospered and became leading people in the community" | | |
  118. | Retirement | "In 1910 they retired. Then they moved to **Northfield, Minn.**, residing there until May, 1913, when they moved to **Lakeville**" | farmed section 16 "until 1910 and is now living with his son Edward" (1916) | Elizabeth died at Lakeville Twp, 11 July 1913 [D] |
  119. | Elizabeth's death | "July 10, 1913, at the age of seventy-three years, after an illness of three weeks duration" | "died July, 1913" | 11 July 1913 (death record); 10 July (FaG) |
  120. | Children | "ten children, six boys and four girls" | "six boys and five girls" (11) | 1900 census: ten born, nine living [D] |
  122. Sources: vol. I, https://archive.org/details/historyofrenvill01curt (full text: https://archive.org/stream/historyofrenvill01curt/historyofrenvill01curt_djvu.txt); vol. II, https://archive.org/details/historyofrenvill02curt.
  124. **Section 10 versus section 16.** Under the Organic Act of 1849 and the Enabling Act of 1857, **sections 16 and 36 of every Minnesota township were school-trust land**, granted to the state and **sold by the state** from 1862. They were not open to federal homestead entry [C: Minnesota DNR, *Lexicon of State-Owned Lands*, https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/lands_minerals/publications/lexicon_of_state_owned_lands.pdf]. Volume I is therefore very probably right: a federal homestead on section 10 and a purchase of state school land on section 16, where the home farm and Edward's birthplace were [I]. The 30 May 1868 tract-book entry is a good candidate for the section-10 homestead entry [I]. Reading that entry, and Henry's state school-land purchase certificate, would settle it.
  126. **Other points worth noting.**
  127. - **Cohoes.** Elizabeth lived at Cohoes before 1854. John and Mary (Ryan) Dwyer were living at Cohoes in 1875 and were the Tisdells' next-door neighbours at Birch Cooley by 1880 [D, archive]. This may be coincidence. It could also be a Cohoes acquaintance that helped draw the Dwyers to Renville County [I, a hypothesis only].
  128. - **Hamilton/Savage and Cedar Lake.** Hamilton (now Savage) and Cedar Lake are both in Scott County. That is where Henry's probable sister Mary Ann Quill lived, and where she raised her orphaned nephew Joseph Chisholm [C]. So the Tisdell siblings were neighbours in Scott County in the 1860s [I].
  129. - **The Puposky Tisdells.** Two of Henry's sons settled at Puposky, Beltrami Co.:
  130. - **Joseph Tisdell** (b. 23 Apr 1869, Hamilton) married Evelyn Brooks Hayes (b. 31 May 1886, Fir, Marshall Co.), a descendant of John Hayes of Dover, N.H. Their children, all born at Puposky: Mary Elizabeth (1907; m. Daniel Beliveau 1924), Henry Charles (1909), Joseph Jr. (1911), Joseph (b. and d. 3 Feb 1913), Martha Nellie (1914), Nellie Lydia (1915), Frank (1917), Sarah (1918), Edward (1920) [C, Richmond (1936), vol. II, p. 603].
  131. - Joseph was posting notices and working on the Puposky-Maple Ridge county road in 1907 (*Bemidji Daily Pioneer*, 17 Apr 1907, p. 5) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1907-04-17/ed-1/?sp=5
  132. - "Mrs. Joseph Tisdell" hosted the Larkin club at Puposky in June 1917, with a recitation by "Mary Tisdell" (*Bemidji Daily Pioneer*, 29 June 1917, p. 4) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1917-06-29/ed-1/?sp=4
  133. - **W. (W. J.) Tisdell** was town clerk of Puposky (16 Dec 1912) and farmed "between Puposky and Foulds" (1 Feb 1919, p. 1) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1919-02-01/ed-1/?sp=1
  134. - Other Tisdell children at Puposky, not among Joseph's: Vernae (Vernie), Dorothy, Flora and Clarence. Vernae and Flora attended high school in Bemidji, and their grandfather was N. G. Reynolds (27 July 1921, p. 4; 31 Mar 1922, p. 3) [D]: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1922-03-31/ed-1/?sp=3. They are very probably W. J.'s children by a Reynolds wife [I].
  135. - That W. J. is Henry's son William (c. 1874-1953) is **Probable** [I: he lived beside his brother Joseph, and the surname is rare].
  136. - **Thomas H. Tisdell** (b. 7 Feb 1865, Dakota Co.) married Ellen Lorden on 28 Jan 1896. She was a daughter of Dennis Lorden and **Mary Connelly** (vol. I, p. 387) [C]. Whether Mary (Connelly) Lorden was kin to Elizabeth Connelly (a niece, say) is an **open question**. Nothing found says so.
  137. - **Edward Tisdell's line.** Edward (b. 7 June 1880, section 16) married Charlotte Nuens, 10 Jan 1910. Their son **Eugene Edward Tisdell (31 Jan 1928 - 5 Jan 2022)** farmed near Morton for 35 years, worked 13 years for Renville County, and served in the Army in the Korean War. Obituary [D]: https://www.hafh.org/obituary/Eugene-Tisdell
  139. **Suggested short life story** (each sentence is drawn from the sources above):
  140. > Henry Tisdell was born in Ireland about 1837 and came to America in the 1850s. On 22 May 1860, at St. Louis, he married Elizabeth Connelly, a London-born girl who had lived at Cohoes, New York, before coming to Minnesota in 1854 to keep house for her brothers. The couple lived first at Hamilton (now Savage) in Scott County and at Burnsville in Dakota County. They then went west to Birch Cooley Township in Renville County, where the Battle of Birch Coulee had been fought in 1862. There they homesteaded on section 10 and bought school land on section 16. Their first house had sloping walls in the shape of a letter A, "a roof set on the ground". They prospered, had ten children, and became, in a son's words, "leading people in the community." In 1910 they retired to Northfield and in 1913 to Lakeville, where Elizabeth died that July. Henry spent his last years with his son Edward on the home farm and died at New Ulm on 29 December 1918. He was buried at St. John's, Morton.
  142. Still missing: Henry's obituary (New Ulm Review or Morton Enterprise, January 1919; neither was reachable in Chronicling America for that month); his death certificate (no. 2056); the section-10 homestead file.
  144. ### 3.2 Edwin C. Dwyer and the Edwin C. Dwyer Co.
  146. **New documentation from this pass**
  147. - **1942 employer: the Harry W. Brintnall Co.** (2306 3rd Ave., Seattle, from his draft card [D, archive]). Brintnall was the "coast distributor of bookbinding machinery and supplies". It was headquartered in San Francisco at 51 Clementina St. for 26 years, then at 430 Howard St. from 1935, with branches in Los Angeles and Seattle.
  148. - The Seattle branch was at 419 First Ave. S. in 1934 and moved about 1 May 1935 to 2620 Second Ave., under Emerich Radsovich [D, trade press]:
  149. - *Bookbinding Magazine*, Dec. 1934: https://archive.org/details/sim_book-and-magazine-production_1934-12_20_6
  150. - *Bookbinding Magazine*, Apr. 1935, "Two Brintnall Offices Move": https://archive.org/details/sim_book-and-magazine-production_1935-04_21_4
  151. - Edwin came from San Francisco in 1935, so a Brintnall connection is plausible, but no record of him at Brintnall before 1942 was found [I].
  152. - **Conflict to raise:** his obituary has him founding his own firm in 1935, but his 1942 card names Brintnall as his employer. The firm may have started small or as Brintnall's service agent, or the founding year may be loose.
  153. - **1950: Miehle's parts-and-service agent for the Pacific Northwest.** Miehle Printing Press & Mfg. Co. of Chicago, maker of the Miehle flatbed cylinder and Vertical presses, moved its Northwest sales under its San Francisco office. "Arrangements have been made with Harry Hill Co., Portland, and Edwin C. Dwyer Co., Seattle, to stock Miehle repair parts and handle service in the area": Oregon, Washington, Montana and northern Idaho [D, trade press]:
  154. - *Photo-Lithographer*, June 1950: https://archive.org/details/sim_modern-lithography_1950-06_18_6
  155. - *Printing Equipment Engineer*, June 1950, p. 93: https://archive.org/details/sim_printing-management_1950-06_80_3
  156. - Miehle background [C]: https://www.howardironworks.org/collection/cp-miehlev50x-1973.html
  157. - **1954.** "Jim Bernard, of the Edwin C. Dwyer Co., Seattle, ... erected" a new Miehle No. 29 offset press at American Printing & Lithographing Co., Seattle (*Modern Lithography*, Aug. 1954) [D]: https://archive.org/details/sim_modern-lithography_1954-08_22_8
  158. - **Seattle city directories, 1966-1985** [D]:
  159. - 1966: "[Jerome] E (Patricia) hlpr Edwin C Dwyer Co r Alderwood"; "Winifred I Mrs (Edwin C Dwyer) r5605 6th Av NW": https://archive.org/details/polksseattleking0000vari
  160. - 1973 (Seattle Credit Bureau/Polk), 1975, 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1985: classified under PRINTERS' SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT as "**Dwyer Edwin C Co Inc, 126 Elliott Av W**", "prntrs sups equip" or "prntrs equip". Officers: **Jerome E. pres, Patricia A. sec-treas, Winifred I. (Wid Edwin C) v-pres**. Several mechanics, a machinist and an assistant manager are listed as employees.
  161. - 1973: https://archive.org/details/seattlecreditbur0000vari
  162. - 1975: https://archive.org/details/1975seattlekingc0000vari
  163. - 1977: https://archive.org/details/1977seattlecityd0000unse
  164. - 1978: https://archive.org/details/1978seattlecityd0000unse
  165. - 1981: https://archive.org/details/1981seattlekingc0000vari
  166. - 1985: https://archive.org/details/1985seattlewashi0000vari
  167. - 2001: "Edwin C Dwyer Co", 206-241-2955 (*American Business Blue Book*): https://archive.org/details/bwb_TV-144-269
  168. - 2014-15: "Dwyer Edwin C Co", 15830 Ambaum Blvd SW, Burien (*South King County Yellow Book*): https://archive.org/details/B-001-000-309
  169. - So the company was incorporated by 1973 and still listed in 2014-15 [D/I].
  170. - **Address discrepancy to raise.** The directories (1966, 1977, 1985) put the family home at **5605 6th Av NW** (Phinney Ridge/Ballard). The archive has "5605 6th Ave. S.W." from the 1942 card and the obituary summary. The funeral Mass at **St. Alphonsus, a Ballard parish**, fits NW [I]. Re-read the 1942 card image and the obituary.
  172. **Suggested short life story:**
  173. > Edwin Cornelius Dwyer was born at Birch Cooley, Renville County, Minnesota, on 8 July 1897. After moves to Otter Tail County and Montana, he grew up from about age twelve at Turlock in California's San Joaquin Valley. He was working for the Turlock Irrigation District when he registered for the draft in 1918, and served in the Army in the First World War. In 1935 he left San Francisco for Seattle, married Winifred Flynn at Portland that November, and went into the printing-machinery trade. In 1942 he was with the Harry W. Brintnall Co., the Pacific Coast distributors of bookbinding machinery. By 1950 his own Edwin C. Dwyer Co. was the agent that stocked Miehle press parts and serviced Miehle presses in Washington. Its men erected new presses in Seattle plants, and Winifred kept the office. He belonged to the Knights of Columbus, the Holy Name Society and the Craftsmen's Club, and died at Seattle on 11 September 1969. The company outlived him. As Edwin C. Dwyer Co. Inc., dealers in printers' supplies and equipment at 126 Elliott Avenue West, it was run by his widow and their son Jerome into the 1980s.
  175. Still missing: Washington corporation records (the Secretary of State's search blocked automated access); Seattle directories for 1936-1965 (not full-text searchable on archive.org); the founding notice in *Inland Printer* or *Pacific Printer*.
  177. ### 3.3 John Dwyer's moves: context
  179. | Where and when | What was there | Sources |
  180. |---|---|---|
  181. | Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., N.Y., c. 1848 | An Erie Canal town. The canal was being enlarged through the 1840s-1850s by largely Irish labor. Any link to John's work is **[I]** only. | (general; no record of John's work) |
  182. | Ohio, c. 1852 | Son William's birthplace. The reason for the move is unknown. | |
  183. | Moriah (Mineville/Port Henry), Essex Co., N.Y., c. 1853-55 | Iron mining. Large operations at Mineville and Witherbee began about 1850, and the Cheever ore bed "began to be worked seriously" in 1853. "The boom in iron trade first drew Irish settlers in the 1840s," and the Irish "soon constituted most of the town." Witherbee, Sherman & Co. (1862) became the dominant firm. | [C] Town of Moriah history, https://www.townofmoriahny.gov/?p=2100 ; CLUI, https://clui.org/projects/adirondack/explore-adirondack_park/mineville-mine-pit ; Passage Port, https://passageport.org/journey/the-story-of-iron-in-crown-point-moriah/13-the-heart-of-mineville/ |
  184. | Black Brook, Clinton Co., N.Y., 1860-1870 | The **J. & J. Rogers** iron works, sole proprietors of the Black Brook forges from 1835. Ten forge fires there produced 75 tons of blooms a week; 22 fires across the firm's works; **43 covered charcoal kilns**; "a landed estate exceeding fifty thousand acres ... to secure an inexhaustible supply of fuel"; ore "derived wholly from the Palmer mine". Town population 3,452 (1860), 3,561 (1870). | [C] W. C. Watson (1869) via https://localwiki.org/hsl/Black_Brook ; Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Brook,_New_York |
  185. | Cohoes, Albany Co., N.Y., 1875 | The **Harmony Mills**. By the late 1860s they had 203,000 spindles, "the largest number of spindles in the United States for a single location". Mill No. 3 was 1,185 ft long. In the 1860s the workers were "largely made up of young, unmarried Irish women", and child labor tripled 1860-1880. The family's daughters, then 16-21, were of mill age [I]. The 1875 census occupations are still unread. Elizabeth Connelly had lived at Cohoes before 1854 (above). | [C] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Mills |
  186. | Birch Cooley Twp, Renville Co., Minn., 1880; Bandon Twp 1885 | Prairie and coulee country above the Minnesota River, where the **Battle of Birch Coulee** (2-3 Sept 1862) cost U.S. forces their heaviest casualties of the Dakota War. The township was organized in 1867. Morton village, in the southeast of the township, later grew up around granite quarries and the M. & St. L. railway. | [C] Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Birch_Coulee ; Curtiss-Wedge vol. II, pp. 884-885 |
  188. The pattern is Irish industrial labor in New York's iron and textile towns, then a late move to Minnesota farmland. It fits a family working its way from wages to land [I]. No record says what John did before 1880. The 1875 Cohoes census page should show occupations.
  190. ---
  192. ## Part 4. Checked and ruled out (unrelated or unproven)
  194. | Person or record | Why not a connection |
  195. |---|---|
  196. | **Edwin C. Dwyer of Portland, Ore.**: lumberman (Dwyer Fuel Co., Dwyer Lumber & Plywood), Port of Portland, bank director; Univ. of Oregon '27, Phi Delta Theta; in *Who's Who on the Pacific Coast* (1951) and *Who's Who in the West* (1951, 1956) | **Unrelated namesake.** A Portland family (Anthony J., Robert F. Dwyer). The Who's Who entries could be read only through index snippets; they are very probably this Portland businessman, not Edwin of Seattle [I]. |
  197. | Rev. Edwin C. Dwyer, J.C.L., Diocese of Saginaw; Edwin C. Dwyer of Franklin, N.H.; E. C. Dwyer, honorary pallbearer, San Francisco 1926 (*Organized Labor*); seaman Edwin Dwyer, HMS *Dorsetshire* murder trial, Hong Kong 1938 | Unrelated namesakes. |
  198. | Elias Boudinot (1740-1821), Elias Boudinot (Cherokee, d. 1839), Elias Cornelius Boudinot, Brig. Gen. Truman E. Boudinot | No link found to Edgar J. Boudinot's family. Even if one existed, they would be kin of Agnes Dwyer's husband, not of Jerome. |
  199. | Tisdell/Tisdall namesakes on Wikipedia: Clem Tisdell (Australian economist), Steph Tisdell, Tonia and Terrence Tisdell (Liberian footballers), Keith Tisdell, Christopher C. Tisdell, Elizabeth Tisdell, Peggy Dell (born Margaret Tisdell, Irish singer); Mark Tisdel (Michigan legislator) | No linking evidence. Different countries and families. |
  200. | Lt. Moses H. Tisdell (Worcester, Spanish-American War) and the New England Tisdales | The colonial Tisdale family of Massachusetts. Henry was Irish-born. Unrelated. |
  201. | Hugh Connelly, sheriff of Dakota Co. for nine years (m. Sarah, of Rosemount) | Namesake in the same county. No link found to Thomas Connelly's children. **Unproven.** |
  202. | "M. J. Dwyer, aged 65", said to have died on the steps of the Butte library, with the funeral "from the residence of Mr. J. Dalton, 312 E. Granite" | Seen only in a search-engine summary of a Utah Digital Newspapers page (https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=4116371 or ?id=4091833) that refused direct access. Unverified. It is not Michael J. Dwyer (1849-1935, Bronx). Possibly kin of the Butte Daltons; a lead only. |
  203. | Genevieve Belleveau | See 1.2: **unproven** (namesake and place only). |
  204. | William Wichman (Renville Co. sheriff and legislator) and other Wikipedia "People from Renville County / Olivia / Redwood Falls / Bird Island / Turlock / Lakeville / Bemidji" entries | Category lists scanned. No family surnames except Belleveau. |
  206. ---
  208. ## Part 5. What was searched, by sub-branch ("nothing notable found" results)
  210. - **Tisdell descendants** (Thomas H., Joseph, William, James, Frank, Edward Tisdell; Sarah Lucy Tracy, Arizona; Mary Margaret Dey, California; Ella Wicks, Washington):
  211. - Wikipedia full-text search for "Tisdell" and "Tisdell" + Minnesota.
  212. - Wikipedia "People from ..." categories for Renville County, Olivia, Redwood Falls, Bird Island, Lakeville, Bemidji, Turlock and Butte.
  213. - archive.org full-text search (Tisdell + Morton/Minn/Puposky).
  214. - Chronicling America (Bemidji Daily Pioneer, Redwood Gazette).
  215. - Web searches for Tracy/Dey/Wicks obituaries; WikiTree (no profiles for this family).
  216. - Found: the Puposky families, the Hayes genealogy, Eugene E. Tisdell's obituary. **No notable descendant found.**
  217. - **Chisholm (Bessie Tisdell's line)**: Curtiss-Wedge vols. I-II; web searches for Joseph Chisholm's children (Ross, Edgar, Raymond, Elmer, Ambrose, and daughters Mrs. Carr and Mrs. Clancy). **Nothing notable.**
  218. - **Quill (Mary A. Quill)**: *History of the Minnesota Valley* (1882); web and Wikipedia searches. Only the local offices in Part 2.
  219. - **Connelly (James; Michael Thomas)**: *History of Dakota and Goodhue Counties* (1910), Wikipedia and web. Only the local offices in Part 2.
  220. - **Dwyer siblings of Cornelius**:
  221. - Kate Dalton of Butte: Chronicling America has no Butte or Anaconda papers for Oct 1908; montananewspapers.org was blocked by the proxy.
  222. - John J. Dwyer (Butte), Mary Ann McCauley (Vermont), Michael J. Dwyer (Bronx), William (Ohio/Indianapolis/Covington): web and archive.org searches.
  223. - **Nothing found.**
  224. - **Cornelius's grandchildren** (Boudinot, Neuman, Golden, and the children of Henry V., Lawrence L., John F. and Raymond P. Dwyer):
  225. - archive.org full text of San Francisco and Monterey directories; Navy registers and journals; web searches.
  226. - Found Capt. Edgar J. Boudinot Jr. **Nothing found for the Golden, Neuman or other Dwyer grandchildren.**
  227. - Patricia (Dwyer) Mulka's descendants were not researched (living people).
  228. - **Not reachable from here:** Find a Grave, Ancestry, FamilySearch, MNHS people search, Minnesota Official Marriage System, California Birth Index sites, Washington Secretary of State, montananewspapers.org, Utah Digital Newspapers. HathiTrust and the Google Books API were also unavailable (HathiTrust blocked with a 403; the Google Books API was over its quota).
  230. ---
  232. ## Part 6. New facts and conflicts to raise with the user (not applied)
  234. 1. **Joseph Tisdell**: born 23 Apr 1869 at Hamilton (now Savage), Minn.; married Evelyn Brooks Hayes (b. 31 May 1886, Fir, Marshall Co.); lived at Puposky, Beltrami Co.; nine children named (3.1) [C, Richmond 1936]. The archive has "c. 1868-72".
  235. 2. **Thomas H. Tisdell**: born 7 Feb 1865, Dakota Co.; married Ellen Lorden 28 Jan 1896; nine children named in vol. I, p. 387 [C].
  236. 3. **Henry and Elizabeth**:
  237. - Immigration 1852 versus 1858, and marriage year 1859 versus 1860: the two Curtiss-Wedge volumes conflict.
  238. - Elizabeth lived at Cohoes and came to Minnesota in 1854.
  239. - The couple lived at Savage (Hamilton).
  240. - Homestead on section 10 and purchase on section 16 (section 16 was school land).
  241. - The A-frame first house.
  242. - Retirement to Northfield in 1910 and Lakeville in May 1913.
  243. - Elizabeth's age at death given as 73.
  244. 4. **Edwin's house number**: 5605 6th Av **NW** in the directories, versus S.W. in the archive.
  245. 5. **Edwin's 1942 employer**: the Harry W. Brintnall Co. was a San Francisco-based Pacific Coast distributor of bookbinding and printing machinery with a Seattle branch since at least 1934. This is a possible thread back to his San Francisco years.
  246. 6. **Edwin C. Dwyer Co. Inc.**: Miehle parts and service agent (1950); 126 Elliott Av W (1973-1985); Burien (2014-15); officers in the 1970s-80s as listed in 3.2.
  247. 7. **Agnes (Dwyer) Boudinot's husband and son**: Edgar J. Boudinot Sr. was a career Navy machinist, later Chief Machinist and CWO-2; the family lived at 963 Hayes St. (1931) and 1255 33rd Ave., San Francisco (1941-43). Their son Capt. Edgar J. Boudinot Jr. is described in 1.1.
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