As the Towne families started moving West, many of their paths took them through Ohio. As we explore their westward journeys, we are making plans to hold our 2025 reunion in Cincinnati where notably descendants of Jacob, Edmund, Mary and Rebecca left legacies which will be featured in About Towne this year.

Cincinnati was the home of Elizabeth C. Nourse, a world-acclaimed artist who was born in Cincinnati and trained in the Design School of Cincinnati. Her work has been displayed in the Cincinnati Museum of Art, as well as other museums. Her twin sister Adelaide was a wood carver whose husband Benn Pitman founded the Phonographic Institute of Cincinnati and invented the electro-process of relief engraving in 1856.

A short 13 mile drive from Cincinnati takes us to North Bend, Ohio, the burial site of President William Henry Harrison, whose daughter Lucy Singleton Harrison married David Kirkpatrick Este, an attorney who moved from New Jersey to Cincinnati and later became a Justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio. He was a Mary descendant. Their daughter, Florence Este, was also an acclaimed painter who lived in Paris at the same time as Elizabeth Nourse.

We are looking for volunteers to serve on a committee to plan this reunion. If you would like to help out contact Tamara at reunions@townefolk.com

Watch for updates in About Towne and here as detailed reunion plans are developed.