The house at 891 Conway St., between Mendota and Forest streets is in the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood of St. Paul, about 2 miles east, southeast of the downtown central business district. It is an old inner-city neighborhood, settled and built mostly in the 1870s and 1880s, mainly by German and Irish immigrants. Like many St. Paul neighborhoods, Dayton's Bluff had it's own Police Substation, built in the mid-1880s in the 700 block of Margaret St., just off of East Seventh St., the neighborhood's main arterial street. William P. Clynch was a policeman working out of the Margaret Street Police Substation, according to the contemporary St. Paul City Directories. In 1910, the Clynch family was living at 702 Hudson St., in the same neighborhood. Both the house at 891 Conway, and the old Margaret Street Police Substation are still standing. The substation was converted for use as apartments around 1940. The Minnesota Historical Society has some nice photographs of the old Margaret St. Station, and many of the other neighborhood stations. They likely have a photograph of Officer Clynch in their collection as well. You can access the station photographs at their website: www.mnhs.org You will be happy to know that the Dayton's Bluff neighborhood survives much intact as it was in 1914, and the Clynch family if visiting today, would not have a hard time finding their old homestead. A large portion of the neighborhood is an Historic Preservation District, because of its wealth of historic architecture. The neighborhood was named for Lyman Dayton, a Minnesota Territorial pioneer from Rhode Island. He bought large parcels of land on the St. Anthony Hill (northwest of downtown) and also on the bluff which bears his name. He lived from 1850, with his wife and son, on the brow of Dayton's Bluff in a beautiful home (torn down in 1974) that overlooked the entire city. He was buried near his home when he died in 1865. Maria and Bates streets in the neighborhood are named for his wife Maria Bates Dayton. Dayton Avenue, on the St. Anthony hill is named for Lyman Dayton, and begins its westerly route, just north of our St. Paul Cathedral. Hope this helps. If you have any specific questions, please don't hesitate to ask. Best regards, Jim Sazevich, Historian St. Paul, Minnesota Louise Hopkins wrote: > I would like to know if anyone can tell me where 891 Conway St. St. Paul > would have been in 1914. > The Bother of my Greatgrandfather lived there at the time of his death. > He was living with his daughter and family------------Anne and William P. > Clynch. William was said to be a jailer. > Any info would be much appreciated! > Thank you. > Louise > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx