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Portrait & Biographical Album of Ionia and Montcalm Counties, Michigan (state libr dbs) Chapman Bros 1891 Chicago pp 359-361
ISAAC E TYLER is one of the oldest settlers in Orange Township, Ionia County, and one of its original organizers. His pioneer experience was full of interest and exemplified strongly the necessary qualities of early settlers in a new country. His father, Dean M Tyler, was a Vermont farmer, later in life a mason. His mother Phoebe (Post) Tyler, was a native of the same State. There they were married and resided for a number of years. Then removing to Cayuga County, and later to Livingston County, NY.
In 1836 the family started for Michigan, and halted one year in Oakland County before coming on to Ionia County, where they settled in 1837, upon section 13. Taking his farm of perfectly raw land directly from the Government, he set about cultivating it. In 1848 Isaac Tyler had the anguish of witnessing his father killed before his eyes by the falling of a tree, July 13. The widow remained on the farm for about a year, and then went to live with her youngest daughter in whose home she died April 13, 1863. Both she and her husband were members of the Baptist Church before coming West, and in their new home they helped organize the First Baptist Church in Portland, Mr Tyler officiating in this church in the capacity of Deacon. He was always interested in public affairs, helped to organize Orange Township, and was one of the first Justices of the Peace here. He was born August 12, 1793. His wife was born July 4 of the same year. His parents were Moses and Mehitable (Merrill) Tyler.
The parents of our subject were married in Whitestown, Oneida County, NY, December 25, 1815. Of their seven children, five are now living; Isaac E; Betsey A, widow of John Brown; Dean M Jr, who lives in Lapeer County; Laura R, Mrs. Crawford, of Owosso; and Caroline R, now Mrs Briggs, of Clinton County. Isaac E was born January 15, 1816 in Oneida County, NY. There he received a common-school education, and began work for himself at twenty-one years of age. Coming to Michigan in 1836, he spent two years in Oakland County and came to this county in 1838, settling upon eighty acres of land on section 24. Having built a log house and thus prepared for a home, he returned to Oakland County and married January 5, 1840, Elizabeth Brown, a daughter of Jabez and Ann Brown, pioneers of that region and natives of Yarmouth, England. He lived with this wife upon his eighty acres, clearing and improving it, and establishing a happy home until June 22, 1854. Of their five children four are now living: Amelia J, born September 17, 1840, is the wife of Dr. John Smith, now living in New Decatur, Ala. They have three children. Dr Smith was a Captain in the Civil War in the Ninth Michigan Infantry. Emerson, deceased; Sarah A, born September 9, 1845; Louisa M, born September 21, 1846, is the wife of James Page; they live in Nebraska and have one child. Melvina C, born July 26, 1850, lives in Nebraska with her husband Donald McCellum and her two children.
Mr Tyler was a second time united in marriage with Mrs Sarah (Brown) Fields, a sister of his first wife. There were no children as the offspring of this union. She died July 20, 1858. He again married January 1, 1860, Eliza G Hitchock, a daughter of Otis and Sarah (Delano) Hitchcock. Mr Hitchcock was born in Massachusetts, May 9, 1795, and his wife in New York, April 25, 1796. They were married in the Empire State in 1819, in Herrietta, near Rochester, and in 1823 removed to Cattaraugus County, and always resided there upon a farm. He served in the War of 1812, and died June 19, 1873. His wife survived him three years. Of their twelve children seven are now living. Mrs Tyler was their sixth child, and was born August 11, 1828 at Randolph NY, where she grew to womanhood and was given by her parents a good education. Mr Hitchcock was a Deacon in the Baptist Church, in the affairs of which both he and his wife were deeply interested. Local schools found in him a warm friend and promoter. Being a pioneer in Cattaraugus County, and a man of pronounced views and life, in temperance and in religion he carried great influence, and was always a prominent man in the nieghborhood. He brought up a fine family of children, sending his youngest son into the army during the Civil War. This son, Alvin, died during the war from disease incurred while in the service.
Mr and Mrs Tyler have been blessed by the birth of four children: Adeline C, born January 15, 1861, is the wife of John Rossman, and is living in Belding; Otis D, born September 28, 1862, has married Alta Tenney; they live on section 24. William I, born January 31, 1865, is a practicing physician at Niles, Mich; Mary Elizabeth, born January 22, 1867, was at her death in the freshness of youth, and the center of a large circle of loving friend. (sic) ......She was graduated from Portland High School in the Class of '85, and was soon employed as teacher in the grammer department until failing health compelled her to give up her chosen and loved profession..... She united with the Baptist Church in February, 1884....
Mr and Mrs Tyler are both members of the Baptist Church, in which he has been a Deacon for fifty years. They are both deeply interested in Sunday-school work, and are active in this line. The subject of this sketch is one of the two men now living of all those who helped to organize Orange Township. He has for years been a Highway Commissioner and Director of Schools. He now has one hundred and sicty-five acres of land, most which is undercultivation. He carries on the farm work himself, and practices mixed farming. All the building have been put up by himself. He has long been a member of the Republican party, and prominent as a temperance man. He joined the first temperance society organized in Livingston County, NY, and his wfie is a member of the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
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