"Heart of Radio" inventor a former Fairfieldian

DUNWOODY, REED, BRADLEY, WATERS, WILSON

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 6/29/2006 at 13:16:58

"Fairfield Weekly Ledger-Journal", Aug. 30, 1928, Pg. 1

INVENTOR OF "HEART OF RADIO" IS A FORMER FAIRFIELD CITIZEN.

General H.H.C. DUNWOODY went from here to West Point; Was in Charge of Weather Forecasting for the Weather Bureau for Years, and Headed the Signal Corps of the American Army in the Cuban Campaign. (Photo)....

Olt timers remember Gen. Henry H.C. DUNWOODY when he was a boy in school here and up to all the pranks of a lively lad. His parents came here in the '50s from the east, his father setting up a tin shop. Their home was at 604 North Court Street, now the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson REED. The house then occupied the whole block of ground. When the DUNWOODYs died -- both the general's father and mother lie in Evergreen (City) Cemetery -- the property was sold to Joseph BRADLEY who lived there with his family for many years.

General DUNWOODY and T. S. WATERS were boys together and Mr. WATERS still chuckles over their escapades. For the first time in all these years, Mr. WATERS the other day revealed the fact that the loud noise heard one night some 65 years ago was he and the embryo soldier setting off one of the stumps that in olden days here were set in the streets as crossings for pedestrians. The boys had got hold of some powder and an augur and exploded the stump as a lark. Sen. James F. WILSON appointed Young DUNWOODY to West Point in 1862 and thenceforth he was nearly lost to Fairfield, although he made frequent visits back to his boyhood home and is now filled with the desire to come back for another visit. He was born in Highland County, Ohio, Oct. 23, 1842, and so is in his 86th year. He now lives at Ovid, New York.....

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.