- DAYTON D. TYLER, the prosperous proprietor of a sawmill in
Cadiz township, Green county,
- and one of the foremost citizens of his community, was born
in Chenango county, N.Y., Dec. 5, 1843, son of Simeon and Martha
Jane (CARD) TYLER, natives of New York state, who were wedded
in 1830.
- Simeon TYLER was a son of Broadstreet TYLER, who was born
in Connecticut, and after the
- close of the Revolution located in New York. He was of English
parentage, and served with great bravery throughout the war for
independence, enduring the hardships of the terrible winter at
Valley Forge, and serving under George Washington. He lost an
eye at the battle of Brandywine. Thrice married, he became the
father of twenty-one children. His death occurred when he was
aged ninety-eight years. Simeon TYLER, father of Dayton D., was
the father of six children, as follows: Martha J., deceased;
Dolphus, who resides in Tennessee; Aurelia, wife of H. B. MACK,
of California; Nathan C., of Martin, Wis.; Lucian D., who died
at the age of twenty; and Dayton D.
- Dayton D. TYLER came with his parents from New York to Stephenson
county, Ill., when he
- was but six years of age, and two years later was left an
orphan by the death of both his parents, and, when a little past
seventeen, was thrown out in the world to depend entirely upon
his own resources. On Sept. 10, 1861, he became a member of Company
B., 46th Ill. V.I., and served four years and twelve days. He
participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Corinth,
siege of Vicksburg, Hatchie, siege of Jackson, Miss., and was
taken prisoner while moving on Mobile, Ala., in March, 1865.
He received an honorable discharge Sept. 22, 1865. His brother
Dolphus served in the 92d Ill. V.I., and his brother Nathan was
a member of Company A, 92d Ill. Mounted Infantry, was taken prisoner,
and passed eleven and one-half months in Andersonville. Mr. TYLER
now conducts his sawmill on the old SAUCERMAN farm, and is meeting
with well-deserved success. He has ever been active in all that
tended toward the welfare of his town and county, and is one
of its most influential citizens. In politics he is a Democrat,
has filled the office of justice of the peace at Browntown, Winslow,
Ill., and Blanchardville, Wis., and was deputy sheriff of Green
county for six years under S. MORESE and Edward REUGER. Fraternally
he is identified with the Masons, becoming a member of that great
order in in 1866, and being a charter member of the Winslow Lodge,
No. 564; he now belongs to Smith Lodge, No. 31, Monroe, Wisconsin.
- On Oct. 5, 1865, Mr. TYLER was married to Miss Mary A. RODEBAUGH,
daughter of
- Thomas and Luvina (FERGUSON) RODEBAUGH, early settlers of
Stephenson county, Ill. Five children have come to bless their
marriage, namely: Jennie L., wife of W. P. STEER, of Winslow,
Ill.; Mary M., wife of Simon P. LYNCH, a farmer of Cadiz township;
Charles D., in partnership with his father (he married Kate KELLEY,
and has two children, Mary and Retha); Annie V., wife of William
Clarno, of South Wayne, Wis.; and Florence E., a dress maker
at home. The family are highly esteemed socially, and their friends
are all assured of a hearty welcome in the hospitable TYLER home.
-
- Taken from "Commemorative Biographical Record of
the Counties of Rock, Green, Grant, Iowa and Lafayette Wisconsin,"
(c)1901 Union Publishing; p. 552.
-
- Courtesy of Carol.
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