Lot # : 185 - DR. TYLER WOOD BED VINTAGE

THE BEDS INTERNAL MEASUREMENTS ARE 73 X 54. INFORMATION PROVIDED FROM THE FAMILY. “ “Venango County, Pennsylvania – Her Pioneers and People, Volume 1, 1919. It concerns Dr. William C. Tyler (1838-1928), to whom this bed belonged. He slept in it as a bachelor, circa 1860, and it was used by subsequent generations of his family until 2023. Please read on to learn more of my great great grandfather, a highly respected gentleman of honorable stature. Kathi Clark, Franklin William C. Tyler, M.D., son of Calvin and Emma (White) Tyler, was born Jan. 6, 1838, at Hiram, Portage Co., Ohio, and in his youth enjoyed unusual educational advantages for the times, attending Hiram College at his birthplace, during the presidency of James A. Garfield at that institution. During his young manhood he taught school in Ohio five years, meanwhile reading medicine under Dr. John French for three vears, and entering the medical department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, in 1862, graduating in 1863 with the degree of M. D. After a year's practice at Munson, Ohio, Dr. Tyler severed early associations for better promise in his chosen work, settling at Rouseville, Venango Co., Pa., where he has ever since resided. Leaving his parents' home at Hiram, Ohio, on horseback, he journeyed thus to his new location, arriving at Rouseville July 14, 1864; since then he has been in active practice in and around the borough. During the first ten years of his residence here, he visited his patients on horseback, riding much of the time through dense woods, and when roads improved took to driving. In 1869, he became a partner in a drug business at Rouseville, acquiring sole ownership of the store in 1876 and conducting it ever since in connection with his practice — the only drug store in the borough and one of the most popular in this section of Venango County. He has also had some oil interests, and altogether has prospered very satisfactorily in the management of his material affairs. During the early days here, local conditions made his work very arduous; nevertheless, he prizes the experience and enjoys recalling the many interesting features which marked the oil development in this region, as well as the beginnings of its industrial progress in other lines. With all the responsibilities of his personal interests, he has been public-spirited about giving his time and thought to assisting in the general advancement, and has been called upon to serve the borough in many important positions, councilman, burgess, and member of the school board, in all of which he has performed his duties most efficiently. He served two terms as commissioner of Cornplanter Township. Like his father, he is a staunch Republican in political belief. Dr. Tyler was one of the first thirty-second-degree Masons in this section. He was made a Mason at Garrettsville, Ohio, and assisted in the organization of Fraternal Lodge. No. 483, F. & A. M., at Rouseville, in 1870, being now its only surviving charter member. He belongs to Caldwell Consistory at Bloomsburg. On June 4, 1873, Dr. Tyler married, at Rouseville, Ella Conant, who died July 6, 1873, and is buried in Grove Hill cemetery, Oil City. On Oct. 19, 1875, he married (second) her sister, Angeline Conant, at Morenci, Mich., and by that union had three daughters: Ella A., the wife of Fred J. Wilkins, of Rouseville; Rowena W., now the wife of Dr. C. C. Moyar, son of William Moyar, who is in practice at Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Edith G., living at home. The mother died Sept. 18. 1907 and is buried in Grove hill Cemetery.