Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
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ERNEST G. TYLER

Ernest G. TYLER, abstract and loan agent at Logan, is a native of Vermont, but has been a resident of Harrison County since 1867. He was born in Hinesburg, Vt., February 15, 1856, and is the son of Henry N. and Harriet A. (COON) TYLER. The father was a native of Massachusetts, and was of English descent, while the mother was born in Vermont, and was of Scotch extraction. Our subject's father's father, was Amasa TYLER, and the mother's father was William COON, a captain in the War of 1812, whose wife was Grace BLAIR, of New York. The COON name is a derivation of the MACCUNE, of Scotland. Of Amasa TYLER's family, there were four children: Henry N., the father of our subject, being the youngest, and he was the father of ten children, of whom our subject Ernest G., was the youngest. He spent his early life in the old Green Mountain State, and when ten years of age the family removed to Minnesota, remained one year, and in March, 1867, came to Dunlap, Iowa, where the parents still live.

Ernest G. attended school at Dunlap, and graduated from the Iowa Agricultural College, at Ames, in 1878, with the degree of Civil Engineer. He established his present abstracting business in 1880, and made the first set of complete abstract books in Harrison County, and has made two complete sets since then.

Politically, Mr. TYLER, believes in the fundamental principles and political economy as it is found in the planks of the National platform of the Republican party.

He was married September 5, 1883, at Logan, to Miss Hattie CADWELL, oldest daughter of Phineas and Harriett M. (FISKE) CADWELL, who came to Harrison County in 1855, and whose sketch appears elsewhere in this work. Two children have blessed this marriage union: Hattie A. and Merle, the former born May 8, 1887, and the latter April 16, 1891.

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