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Arthur J. Trory Photograph Collection
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Arthur J. Trory Photograph Collection
Special Collections and Archives
Arthur J. Trory Photograph Collection
The Arthur J. Trory Photograph collection
The Early Years, 1895-1927
Exhibition Catalogue
Chronology
by Betty Trory McCormick and Patricia McCormick Grant
ARTHUR JAMES TRORY 1879 - 1967
| 1879 | Born May 4 in Lyons, Ohio, the youngest of four children, to English immigrants. Father: Charles Edmund Trory, London. Mother: Elizabeth Trounce Trory, Land's End, England. C. E. Trory, a wheelwright, became a naturalized United States citizen in 1873. |
| 1882 | The Trory family relocated in Wauseon, Ohio, where he attended grammar school and completed one year of high school. |
| 1889 | Received a box camera as a gift, thus the beginning of his life-long interest in photography. |
| 1898 | Sojourned in Ada, Ohio, for an eighteen-month period, completing a course of study in Pharmacy at Ohio Northern University. Owned several cameras, finishing equipment, and several hundred photographs. Was recognized in Kent Courier-Tribune as a fine amateur photographer after having his prints published in a number of Northern Ohio newspapers. |
| 1900 | Received Assistant Papers in Pharmacy, May 1900. Returned to Kent. |
| 1901 | Opened a bakery store next to F. W. Trory Drug Store. |
| 1902 | Apprenticed employment for J. B. Hurst, Cleveland. |
| 1903 | Apprenticed employment for Panscost Pharmacy, Ashland; McDowell Brothers, Medina. Returned to Ada, Ohio, for four-week review course. Began working for brother, Charles, at Crestline in November. |
| 1904 | Hired by Lamparter Druggists, Akron, in March. |
| 1905 | Married Mabel L. Kelso, youngest daughter of Elias S. and Margaret Mackey Kelso of Kent on August 24. |
| 1906 | He and Mabel moved to Crestline to assist recently widowed brother, Charles. Later in year took ten-week review course at Scio. Apparently returned to Kent to work for brother, Fred. |
| 1912 | About this time he opened the first Bookstore and Photofinishing Room in the Tuttle Block on South Water Street. Made home in the Tuttle Apartments. |
| 1916 | Built summer home at Brady Lake from which he took the only picture known of the spectacular fire that destroyed the old Brady Lake Ice House. |
| 1918 | Birth of Elizabeth Jeanne, his only child, in March. Moved to Green Terrace, West Main Street, Kent. Began a chronological series of prints of daughter, her friends and activities, which encompassed the next forty-nine years. |
| 1919 | Sold the Bookstore in August. During next five years served respectively as Secretary and later President of Board of Trades; became first purchasing agent for Mason Tire and Rubber Company, Kent; was appointed first manager of the Kent Auto Club. |
| 1924 | Formed partnership with Charlie Scott in Grocery and Meat Market on North Mantua Street, Kent, at the foot of Crain Avenue Bridge. |
| 1926 | Resigned Auto Club. Bought drugstore in Hudson, Ohio, on December 2, and operated it until it was sold to Standard Drug in 1930. Moved family to Hudson about 1927. |
| 1930 | Bought a drugstore in Massillon, Ohio, at Corner of Eighth and North Street, N.E. This store was closed in 1935 as a result of foreclosure action by the Millersburg Bank during the Great Depression. Many personal items were lost, possibly including his Graphlex camera. |
| 1936 | Passed State Board Examination in Pharmacy in January. Until 1940 worked as pharmacist for Tuck Turner Drugs in Alliance and Ed Schuman Drugs in Canton. |
| 1940 | Bought drugstore at Springfield Center, Ellet, Ohio. He and his wife moved back to Kent, 1224 North Mantua Street, her family home. |
| 1949 | Retired from active business. Devoted his time to avocations of photography, gardening, traveling and "helping out" friends in drugstores in Ravenna and Kent. He and his wife celebrated their sixty-second wedding anniversary three months before his death. His interest in photography continued until Thanksgiving Day 1967 when he took several family photographs at his daughter's home in Massillon. |
| 1967 | He died on Sunday morning, November 26. |
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