Tyler, Nathan Bailey
Gunsmith, Postmaster
Gunsmith, Postmaster
Birth: July 14, 1828, Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio
Death: April 22, 1915, Clearfield, Clearfield County, Ohio
Burial: Oakwood Cemetery, Warren, Trumbull County, Ohio
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Nathan Bailey Derrow Tyler or N. B. Tyler, as he preferred, was born July 14, 1828, in Vienna Township. He was the son of Abel Tyler and Sylvia Lewis. It is likely he was named for Reverend Nathan Bailey Derrow, minister of the Vienna Presbyterian Church, who died in 1828.
Photo of N. B. Tyler taken on the upper pond of the Valhalla Fruit Farm, Pacolet Valley, Polk County, North Carolina.Image courtesy of the Vienna Historical Society
N .B Tyler established Tyler Rifle Works in Vienna Township in 1852 where rifles, shotguns, pistols, ammunition, and hunting knives were manufactured.
He also served for a time as Vienna's postmaster.
N. B. Tyler married Mary Elizabeth Williams on February 10, 1848, in Vienna.
Mary Elizabeth (Williams) TylerImage courtesy of the Vienna Historical Society
Updated 8/13/2020
This article is adapted from Fred L. Martin and James Bradley, "A Genealogical History of Vienna," in Vienna, Ohio, Where We Live and Let Live: Town 4, Range 2 of the Connecticut Western Reserve (Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1999), pp. 72-73. Additional research by Shirley T. Wajda, March 2012.