“The History of Jefferson County, Wisconsin”, published: Chicago:  Western 
Historical Company.   1879.


JASON C. TYLER, farmer, Sec. 16; P. O. Aztalan; born May 4, 1825, in 
Washington Co., Vt., where he worked as a farmer and in a saw-mill for his father; 
in October, 1848, he came to Wisconsin and located in Aztalan Township, Jefferson 
Co., and bought on School Section 16 eighty acres of land; in 1849, built a large 
frame house, in which they still live; on arrival, the land was all unbroken, with 
plenty of deer and wild animals roaming about; in breaking the first fifteen acres, 
they used a two-foot plough, with seven yoke of oxen attached, turning in oak-scrub 
and everything as it came.  Married Miss Elizabeth Rose, of Fort Atkinson, a native 
of England, Oct. 7, 1849; they have four children – Henry H., born Nov. 11, 1850; 
Edwin E., July 26, 1853; Julia A., April 15, 1857; Willis E., Dec. 7, 1863.  Mr. 
Henry Rose, father of Mrs. Tyler, came to America in 1837  and landed at 
Milwaukee June 30, of that year, with his family, and stayed with Mr. Dwight Foster, 
of Fort Atkinson; he bought a farm two miles from there, where Mrs. T. lived till her 
marriage.  Mr. Rose died in August, 1864; the estate still belongs to the family.


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