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Harry
E. Linton (his registered name was "Henry") was born 21-JUL-1853 in Sheffield England. His
parents were William Frederick Linton (b. 1815) and his wife Ellen (b. 1815 -
nee Brown). At
the time of the 1841 census, William and Ellen Linton and family were living on
Furnival St. (backside) within Enumeration
District 15 of Sheffield South. According to 1841 and 1851 census data, Harry's
siblings included: George (b. 1834), Frederick (b. 1836), Ann (b. 1838), Emily
(b. 1840), William (b. 1843), Edwin (b. 1845), James (b. 1848) and Ellen (b.
1850). All of the foregoing were born in the County of York, West Riding. His
siblings birthdates are from census entries and therefore approximate to +/- 1 year. Ellen
Linton (nee Brown), arrived in New York on 20-OCT-1862 aboard
the vessel Adelaide, accompanied by her sons Henry and William and daughter
Emily (Emely). Harry Linton died
19-MAR-1930 in Pensacola Florida. He married Sarah A. Meek 28-NOV-1878 at
Canton, Stark County, Ohio. Their daughter, Nora Linton, was born
24-DEC-1880 and she eventually married Charles Samuel Erbland. Sarah died
12-APR-1881 and Harry remarried to Kate Rex Dillon 30-OCT-1883. Donald
Erbland told me (Mardon Erbland, Donald's son) that his grandfather, Harry
Linton, was involved in the cutlery business and always had lots of fancy knives
around him. According to the Directory of
the City of Canton for the year 1884-85, Harry E. Linton and his brothers, William and
Edward (born Edwin), were all involved in the cutlery business in
Canton. According to newspaper
accounts, it was referred to as the "Linton Bros. cutlery works".
One of the sons of William Linton was Ralph H. Linton, who in 1920 was
"Manager" at a cutlery company in Tidioute Pennsylvania. This
occupation appears in the 1920 census, Roll=T625_1657, Pennsylvania,
Warren County, Tidioute, ED# 172. By 1920, the Tidioute
Cutlery Co. had long-since changed names and moved to Cattaraugus County
NY, so the name of the company where Ralph H. Linton worked in Tidioute is
unknown. Harry and his brothers, William and Edwin, were principles in the
founding of the Canton Cutlery Co.
According to the Canton City Directory for the years 1883·84,
1884·85 and 1899, Harry
was first Supt. then Manager of The Canton Cutlery Co. I (Mardon Erbland) recall that
Harry's grandson, Donald Erbland, often said to me how Harry's interest in the cutlery business
had a connection with the famous Sheffield
Steel of Harry's birthplace. The 1841
Census for Sheffield South shows that the occupation of Harry's father,
William Frederick Linton, was "pen knife grinder". The original of
the upper left photograph is a
tin-type. It appears that the cheeks were hand-colored.
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Nora Emily
Linton, age about 18 years. She was born in Canton, Ohio on 24-DEC-1880 and died 06-MAR-1912 in Canton. She married Charles Samuel Erbland on 16-MAY-1901.
The stamp in the lower left of the source photo is actually pressed into the cardboard
on which the photo is printed. The stamp reads, "A. VIGNOS CANTON,
OHIO." Augustus
Vignos was also involved in the cutlery business in Canton.
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1896 Young Ladies Bible
Class, Buckingham Mission, Canton Ohio. Nora Linton is sitting at the
extreme right of the front row. Ida Meek is sitting at the left hand of
the man in the center (to his right as you look at the picture). Ida Meek
was actually Ida Detimore, having been taken in to the Meek household and raised
as a daughter after Ida's parents perished in a house fire. Ida was never
legally adopted, although she was raised as a "Meek" and is listed in
the 1880 census as Mathew's "adopted
daughter".
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L
to R: Nora Linton and Helen Bostick is
written on the back of the source image. Nora Linton's mother had a
sister, Kathryn (known as "Kate") Bostick (nee Meek). We have no
proof but suspect that Helen was Kate's daughter, which would make Nora and
Helen 1st cousins.
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Harry
Linton and a group of people posed before the steps of house number
"620" (street unknown). Harry is the man in the front row
between the two women. Notice that the man on the right of the front row is
holding a horse shoe.
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John
Gaylord Erbland, Harry E.Linton (grandfather) and Hilda Erbland.
Harry Linton was the father of Nora Linton, John and Hilda's mother. Photo was
probably taken about 1908.
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Nora
Linton is in the middle row on the left. The image is circa 1900.
Nora Linton was born 24-DEC-1880. The names appearing in the list on the reverse side of
the source photo seem to be the following but this is probably not exactly correct, since some names are not very legible: Sema Griswill, Ethel Stinmil, Nora Linton, Don Stianner, Marie Killen, Edith Killian and Edith Carnes.
There are only 7 names listed, even though there are 8 people in the photo. The
nature of this group is not known.
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