Trafton Academy
__NOTOC__ Trafton may refer to the following: People * Mark Trafton (1801–1901), American minister and U.S. Congressman * Adeline Trafton (1842–1920), American author * George Trafton (1896–1971), American football player * Stephanie Brown Trafton (born 1979), American track and field athlete Places * Trafton, Washington * Trafton School, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places Other uses * Trafton script, designed by Howard Allen Trafton for Bauer Type Foundry Bauer is a German surname meaning "peasant" or "farmer". For notable people sharing the surname, see Bauer (surname). Bauer may also refer to: Education and literature * Bauer's Lexicon, a dictionary of Biblical Greek * Bauer College of Bus ...

Mark Trafton
Mark Trafton (August 1, 1810 – March 8, 1901) was a Methodist Episcopal minister who, as a member of the American Party served one term as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Family history Trafton's mother Margaret Dennett, was the daughter of Jacob Dennett, one of Bangor, Maine's original settlers. Early life Trafton was born in Bangor (then in Massachusetts' District of Maine) to Theodore and Margaret (Dennett) Trafton. When he was fifteen years old he was apprenticed to a Mr. Weed, a shoemaker of Bangor, Maine. Education Trafton studied at Kent's Hill Seminary, and was ordained pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church in Westfield, Massachusetts. In the early 1850s he traveled in Europe and published his letters home as ''Rambles in Europe: In a Series of Familiar Letters'' (Boston, 1852). The volume is dedicated to George W. Pickering, a cousin and prominent merchant in Bangor, Maine, who may have financed the trip. Trafton never lost touch with his ho ...
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Adeline Trafton
Adeline Trafton Knox (abt. 1842–1920?) was an American writer and novelist, she published most of her work in the 1870s. A daughter of minister (and one-term member of U.S. Congress) Mark Trafton,Genius-Romance-Hardship-Honor
''Christian Union'', p. 1686-88 (October 24, 1901) Trafton was born in Saccarappa, Maine around 1842 (sources vary, it was likely closer to 1842 though many say February 8, 1845). She studied for a time at Wesleyan Female College in

George Trafton
George Edward Trafton (December 6, 1896 – September 5, 1971) was an American professional football player and coach, boxer, boxing manager, and gymnasium proprietor. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1964 and was also selected in 1969 as the center on the NFL 1920s All-Decade Team. A native of Chicago, Trafton played college football for Knute Rockne's undefeated 1919 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team. He played professional football in the National Football League (NFL) as a center for the Decatur Staleys (1920), Chicago Staleys (1921), and Chicago Bears (1923–1932). He is credited as being the first center to snap the ball with one hand and was selected six times as a first-team All Pro. Trafton also competed as a boxer for a time. He also worked as an assistant football coach for Northwestern in 1922, the Green Bay Packers in 1944, and the Cleveland / Los Angeles Rams from 1945 to 1949. He was the head coach of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fro ...
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Stephanie Brown Trafton
Stephanie Brown Trafton (born December 1, 1979) is an American track and field athlete who won the discus throwing gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. She is thus one of only three American women to have ever won the event. She was a somewhat unusual athlete in that she had become a two-time Olympian before she had competed at a World Championships in Athletics. Her first World Championships in 2009 ended with a sub-par performance in the discus final, but in 2011, she placed sixth. In 2012, she secured her third trip to the Olympics, after a definitive performance at that year's American Olympic trials. Still, the best-performing American of 2012 finished off the medals podium in London in seventh place. Pre-Olympic career Brown Trafton has said she was inspired to become an Olympian as a 4-year-old watching Mary Lou Retton perform in the 1984 Summer Olympics. After a youth of attempting several different sports, she eventually divided her time between athlet ...
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Trafton, Washington
Trafton is a small unincorporated community located in Snohomish County, Washington. It is located near the city of Arlington, and although many things in the area are named Trafton (such as the historic Trafton School and Trafton Cemetery), most residents consider themselves residents of Arlington. Etymology The community derives its name from Trafalgar, Indiana. History Before colonization, the Stillaguamish had built a large winter village along the river, next to what is now the current site of Trafton. The village was called ''chuck-kol-che,'' with only the early transliteration of the native Lushootseed Lushootseed (txʷəlšucid, dxʷləšúcid), also Puget Salish, Puget Sound Salish or Skagit-Nisqually, is a language made up of a dialect continuum of several Salish tribes of modern-day Washington state. Lushootseed is one of the Coast Salis ... name being known. There were at least 200 people living at the village, with permanent structures including a large long ...
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Trafton School
The Trafton Elementary School in Arlington, Washington, USA was founded in 1888, rebuilt after a fire in 1912, and is listed on the Washington State Heritage Register and the National Register of Historic Places.Gale FiegeBudget squeeze may close beloved Trafton school ''Everett Herald'', 2010-02-05. Accessed online 2010-02-05. In February 2010, the Arlington School District was considering closing the school after the current school year. Then in June they indeed voted to do so. The two-story building, described in 2010 by the ''Everett Herald'' as "the oldest continuously operating small school in Washington", still retains its old school bell on the roof. It is the focal point of the Trafton community northeast of Arlington proper, and is the site of the annual Trafton Fair every September. As of 2010, the K-5 school has 135 students, from about 70 families. Faced with a $2.4 million budget crunch from the late-2000s recession, Arlington decided to close the school. According ...
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