Third Generation

18. J Frank TYLER was born on 19 Nov 1857 in Columbia , New York.¹¹ Biography of¹¹ J. FRANK TYLER.

J. Frank Tyler, living on section 13, Che­banse township, has attained a prominence as a poultry-raiser that has made him known not only through Iroquois county and Illinois but in various parts of the Union and in Canada as well. He was born in Columbia county, New York, November 19. 1857, a son of John J. Ty­ler, who was likewise a native of that county.
J. Frank Tyler is one of six children, all of whom reached adult age, and he is the fourth in order of birth. He was reared to farm life and was afforded good school privileges. He always remained at home, coming with his parents to Illinois. and in later years he purchased eighty acres of the estate.
On the 2d of April, 1879, Mr. Tyler was mar­ried to Miss Lenora Overhue. a native of Han­over, Germany, and a daughter of Charles Over­hue, who in 1865 be came a resident of Kankakee county, Illinois, where he spent his remaining days, passing away at the age of seventy-seven years, while his wife died at the age of sixty years. Following his marriage Mr. Tyler added to the dwelling upon the farm and otherwise im­proved the buildings there. He has erected a good barn and has carried forward the work of developing and cultivating his farm, this claim­ing his attention for several years. In 1880, however, he began raising fancy poultry and for twenty-one years has made a specialty of barred Plymouth Rock chickens. The business in­creased so rapidly that he has eliminated all other business interests and concentrated his energies upon his poultry-raising, having from fifteen hundred to two thousand birds each year, mostly of very high grade. He is today recognized as one of the foremost poultry men in Illinois and has made exhibits throughout the state, where he has won many premiums. He ships fine birds all over the country, his trade extending to all parts of the United States and to Canada. He has received as high as three dollars for a
setting of eggs and twenty-five dollars bra single bird for breeding purposes. He has sold as many as eighty thousand eggs in a single season for hatching purposes. He annually packs from one hundred and fifty to one hundred and seventy-five cases of eggs, there being thirty dozen to the case, so that his average sales yearly are fifty thousand. His business has thus grown continually until it has assumed very extensive proportions and has long since become a most profitable industry.
In politics Mr. Tyler was for many years a supporter of democracy but in later years has voted with the prohibition party at national elec­tions and independently at local elections. He is without aspiration for office yet is not remiss in the duties of citizenship. Fraternally be is connected with Chebanse lodge No.994, M. W. A., and with the Court of Honor, No. 25, at Springfield. Both he and his wife are members of the Congregational church at Chebanse and are highly esteemed residents of this part of the county. Mr. Tyler is recognized as a man of excellent business ability and executive force and is regarded as authority upon the subject of poul­try-raising, his practical ideas being demonstrated in his successful management of a business that has long since reached extensive proportions.

J Frank TYLER and Lenora OVERHUE were married on 2 Apr 1879.¹¹