Lassen County Biographies

Jerry Tyler

Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Nov. 2004

This file is part of the California Genealogy & History Archives http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cagha/index.htm


 
He was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1828. When three years old he went with 
his parents to Cleveland, Ohio. As soon as old enough he worked at anything 
which offered. Was a messenger in the Granville bank, and afterwards learned the 
mason�s trade, at which he continued until twenty years of age. Was soon 
afterwards married to Miss Elizabeth Pulford, and then went to Johnson county, 
Iowa, where he purchased some land and also engaged in the livery business. He 
soon sold his interests here, and came to Lassen county, California, bringing 
with him twenty-five buggies and carriages, and a lot of fine horse. He stopped 
for a time at the place where Mr. Ridenour now lives, but afterwards removed to 
Nicholas Clark�s place, a part of whose house he rented. The following January, 
while they were out, their little girl Francis accidentally set fire to the 
house, the fire consuming it and all their household effects. Soon after, he 
bought from Mr. Kingsbury the place he now lives on, near Milford. Mr. Tyler was 
again married February 14, 1864, to Miss Parker. Their children are Grant, born 
May 20, 1865; Thomas Sheridan, July 27, 1868; Stanton Farragut, September 17, 
1870; Jessie Louise, July 27, 1874; Laura Edith, January 29, 1876; Sumner 
Custer, January 24, 1878; and Stanley Edson, February 2, 1881. Mr. Tyler is the 
inventor of a very ingenious appliance for unloading, stacking, and distributing 
hay and grain.  
 
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from 
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco,  1882. p 503