Butte County
Biographies
JOSEPH B. TYLER.--A hard-working, progressive farmer of Butte County is to be found in the person of Joseph B. Tyler, who takes a particular pride in being a native son of the state. He was born on March 7, 1872, in Tulare County, being the fifth in order of birth of the seven children (five of whom are living) that were born to David Marks and Marion (Washburn) Tyler. The father and mother were both born, reared, and married in St. Joseph County, Mich. They came to California in 1871 and settled in Tulare County, where Mr. Tyler engaged in raising blooded stock, being associated with his two brothers, who were ranchers in that section. About 1889 he removed to Butte County, where he died on June 10, 1917, aged about seventy-seven years. He is buried at Chico. Mrs. Tyler, still hale and hearty at the age of seventy-five, makes her home near Nord. Great-grandfather Comfort Tyler owned the site of the present city of Syracuse, N. Y.; and it was known in his day as Tyler’s Hollow. Grandfather Joseph Tyler, accompanied by his two sons, John and James, came to California in 1849, having outfitted his own vessel that brought them around the Horn. He was taken with a fever, and went ashore at San Diego, where he died. His sons took his body back East, and afterwards they came across the plains and engaged in the cattle business on a large scale in California. It was from this date that the Tyler family became established in this state.
Joseph B. Tyler received his education in the public schools of Tulare and Butte Counties; and at the age of thirteen he started to work by the month on the various ranches in the vicinity of his father’s home. From a small boy he was a partner with his father in his ranching enterprise in Butte County, and when he was nineteen he became overseer of the stock on the Dr. Glenn ranch, in what is now Glenn County. He was in the employ the Glenn ranch for nearly six years, when he again came back to Butte County and worked as a ranch hand until he was able to make a start for himself. From an early age he has been self-supporting; and though he has met with many discouragements, in the main he has been fairly successful, and has made a name and a place for himself in the county in which the greater part of his life has been passed. At the present time he is successfully engaged in raising grain on a ranch that was a part of the Burdick property, which was an inheritance of Mrs. Tyler, from her father.
On September 5, 1906, Mr. Tyler was united in marriage with Miss Leila A. Burdick, a daughter of Cyrenus J. and Sarah (Dibble) Burdick, who are mentioned at length on another page of this work. Four children have blessed the union on Mr. and Mrs. Tyler: Adelpha Marion, Sarah Anita, Joseph E., and Leonard Arden. This happy family reside on their ranch of one hundred sixty acres, which is an inheritance from the estate of C. J. Burdick. Mr. Tyler is prominent in lodge work, and is a Past Grand of Durham Lodge, No. 311, I. O. O. F.; and both Mr. and Mrs. Tyler belong to the Rebekahs. He is an adherent of Republican principles, and is a man who has many friends. Both himself and wife are highly esteemed.
Transcribed
by Roseann Kerby.
Source: "History of
Butte County, Cal.," by George C. Mansfield, Pages 1108-1109, Historic Record Co, Los Angeles, CA, 1918.
© 2009 Roseann Kerby.
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