Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 663
LEONARD G. TYLER

Leonard G. TYLER, drug dealer at Dunlap, was born June 3, 1849, in Berkshire County, Massachussetts. He is the son of Henry N. and Harriet A. (COON) TYLER, natives of Massachusetts and Vermont respectively, and of English-Scotch and Irish extraction. Our subject was reared in Chittenden County, Vermont, from his third year. In 1863 he went to Montpelier, where he entered the drug store of N. K. BROWN, and in the autumn of 1865 went to Chicago, where he remained until 1869, and then went to Oregon, Illinois, and after the Chicago fire returned to that place, continued in the drug business for a short time and then came to Harrison County, Iowa, and located on a farm three miles from Dunlap, where he partially improved a one hundred and twenty acre farm, and lived upon the same for four years. He then came to Dunlap and engaged in the grocery business with his brother, Charles H. TYLER, who is now deceased, and who was the pioneer furniture dealer at that point. Our subject remained with his brother one year and then entered the employ of R. B. HILLIS in his general store. After being in that store two years he took charge of the old Tyler Hotel for a few months, and then became a salesman with his brother-in-law, J. A. NAY, in the hardware business, continuing that for one year, and then entered the drug store of A. L. MANNING, whose business he afterward purchased, and now operates. He carries a $5,000 stock of drugs and medicines. He also handles musical supplies and sewing machines.

He was married September 12, 1888, to Miss Edith J. NORTON, of Blair, Nebr., who is a native of Illinois. Her parents are Luther M. and Theodosia NORTON. Our subject and his wife have one child -- Leone Genevieve.  Mr. TYLER is a believer in the principles of the Republican party and has belonged to the Odd Fellows Order for twenty-one years. He has passed all the chairs in the Subordinate Lodge and of the Encampment.

Of our subject's father and mother, it may be said that they are both living, the father past eighty-five years and the mother past eighty years of age. They had a family of ten children -- Laura, wife of J. A. NAY, of Long Pine, Nebraska; Charles, deceased; Albert, a resident of Defiance, Iowa; Frank, a resident of Omaha, Nebr.; Ida, wife of James GURFRY, residing in Iowa; Walter B., drowned in the Platte River in Nebraska; Edward V., deceased; Percy W., living near Ute, Iowa; Ernest G., a resident of Logan.   Mr. TYLER has been a correspondent for some of the leading journals, and is one of the prime movers of the Chautauqua club, and takes an active part in all that tends to build up good society in Harrison County.

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