San Diego County Biographies
 
JOHN SCHUYLER

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is Oceanside's hardware merchant and practical tinner, having worked at the 
business most of the time for the last thirty-seven years. Notwithstanding the 
time he has followed the business he is almost as active as a boy. He seems to 
have learned the proverb. " He that by the plow would thrive, must either hold 
himself or drive." So, should you go into his fine, large brick store, if you 
did not find him waiting on a customer, you would find him working away in his 
shop as fast as though he were a journeyman again working by the piece. He was 
born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, July 2, 1836. His father, Josephus Schuyler, a 
farmer, was born in the State of New York in 1808, and died in San Bernardino 
County, California, in 1888, having just attained the age of four score years. 
Mr. Schuyler's mother, Nancy (Rogers) Schuyler, was born in New York State in 
1801. She was married to Mr. Josephus Schuyler in 1831, and had a family of four 
children, the subject of this sketch being the third. He received a 
common-school education. When sixteen years of age he went to learn the tinner's 
trade, after which he worked as a journeyman in several of the western States. 
In 1858 he came to California, where he worked in several places, and returned 
to New York city in 1864. He worked at Hudson for a year and then went to 
Nebraska, where he remained until 1884, when he came with his family to San 
Bernardino, California, where he engaged in business. In 1887 he came to 
Oceanside and started his present hardware business on Second street. In 1888 he 
built his brick store on Third street. It is 26 x 85 feet, two stories high, and 
has a glass partition which divides the store from the shop. His store is filled 
with a full line of hardware, and he does business for fifteen miles around, and 
even sells some bills to people twenty-five miles away. He was married in 1864 
to Miss Ann Frances Barlow, who was born in Connecticut May 19, 1884. She is the 
daughter of W. S. Barlow, of Stockbridge, Connecticut, who carried on a piano 
business in New York city for a long time. They have a family of three children, 
two boys and one girl: Mary, born at Falls City, Nebraska, in 1870; Frank B., 
born in Falls City in 1872, and Wilton S., born at Superior, Nebraska, in 1875. 
Mr. Schuyler is a member of the Odd Fellows organization, and is president of 
the board of trustees of the city of Oceanside.
 
SOURCE:  An Illustrated History of Southern California:  Embracing the Counties 
of San Diego, San Bernardino, Los Angeles and Orange, and the Peninsula of Lower 
California� Chicago:  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1890.  p.-  267-268