When Dublin Wasn’t Doublin’

When Dublin Wasn’t Doublin’ is a humorous and endearing volume that combines heartfelt personal memoir, inherited family lore, and a resounding spirit of pure Americana. With a family tree that includes John Sells, the founder of Dublin, as well as Revolutionary War heroes, John Davis and Ann Simpson Davis, Tim Sells is uniquely qualified to offer insight on this exceptionally American story of the lives lived by his progenitors and the life he experienced growing up on the banks of the Scioto River. In addition to his family’s history, Sells recounts fascinating episodes ranging from the execution of the great Wyandot chief, Leatherlips, to the elephant races in the Sell’s Brother’s Circus, to the day that John Dillinger’s gang passed through town, to the time when a grocery store fire and the proprietor’s mistrust of banks led to it actually raining money in the streets of Dublin. Tim Sells was born and raised in Dublin, Ohio. Sells graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State University, where he was named to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. After serving in the US Army, Sells was a juvenile probation officer and a Welfare Department income maintenance worker in Franklin County. He subsequently was employed by the State of Ohio as a disabled veterans outreach worker for thirty years, retiring in 2009. He is fond of saying, “I love to wake up in the morning with nothing to do, and go to bed at night and only have half of it done”.