Comfort Tyler
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| name = Comfort Tyler
| image = Comfort_Tyler.jpg
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|mf=yes|1764|02|22}}
| birth_place = Ashford, Connecticut, United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1827|08|05|1764|02|22}}
| death_place = Montezuma, New York, United States
| occupation = Early settler, surveyor and engineer, instrumental in the development of Onondaga County
| spouse = Deborah Wemple (died 1785)
Elizabeth "Betsey" Brown (died October 21, 1827)
| burial_place = Oakwood Cemetery, Syracuse, New York
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Comfort Tyler (February 22, 1764{{snd}}August 5, 1827), one of the original settlers of modern Syracuse, New York, brought his family in the spring of 1788 to what became the hamlet of Onondaga Hollow on the future Seneca Turnpike, south of the city's center today. He joined Asa Danforth and Ephraim Webster, the first whites to settle there, who had obtained permission to live there from the Onondaga. Tyler built the more ambitious house in Onondaga Hollow and contributed his engineering skills to the development of Central New York.
Tyler was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1796,{{Cite web |title=A New Nation Votes |url=https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/vq27zp53g |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=elections.lib.tufts.edu}} representing Onondaga County, and an unsuccessful Federalist candidate for the 16th congressional district in 1802, losing to John Patterson.{{Cite web |title=A New Nation Votes |url=https://elections.lib.tufts.edu/catalog/wm117q661 |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=elections.lib.tufts.edu}}
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External links
- [https://archive.today/20070813162503/http://www.emich.edu/public/geo/gen/genealogy.onondaga.html Colonel Comfort Tyler at Onondaga]
- [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM3KMC Comfort Tyler Memorial Pyramid in Oakwood Cemetery]
- [https://www.flickr.com/photos/jade19721/2787714021/ Colonel Comfort Tyler memorial]
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Category:Military personnel from Syracuse, New York
Category:Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Syracuse, New York)
Category:People from Ashford, Connecticut
Category:People from Manlius, New York
Category:People from Onondaga County, New York
Category:New York (state) Federalists