Herkimer County NyArchives Biographies.....Tilyon, Abram November 25, 1838 - 
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Author: Hardin & Willard

Tilyon, Abram, Stark, was born November 25, 1838, two miles east of Van 
Hornesville,a son of Joseph and Rebecca (Kinter) Tilyon. The grandfather, 
Joseph, was a Frenchman and a pioneer of Van Hornesville. He died in Stark, 
aged over ninety. His wife was Elizabeth Druse, who died a year earlier. They 
had these children: Elizabeth, Charlotte, Joseph, Stephen. Carlisle, Mary, 
Charles, Catharine and Alexander. Joseph was born in Stark September 19, 1807. 
He learned the cooper's trade, but was a farmer, owning 180 acres. He died 
March 25, 1882, and his wife in March, 1868. She was born April 13, 1807, and 
had eight children: Jonas, Catharine L., Abram, Edwin, Rensselaer, Leander. 
Daniel S. and Ellen C. Joseph married second Phebe Herkimer.   Subject was 
raised on a farm, and at twenty-one began for himself buying and shipping 
stock.   In the spring of 1864 he bought his first farm of 176 acres.  In 1876 
he bought the homestead of his maternal grandfather of 180 acres. He also 
owned another of 112 acres, which he sold.   He was elected justice at twenty-
three, but refused to serve.   He is an active Mason at Springfield Center. 
February 19, 1868, he married Hannah M. Turner, born in Warren, daughter of 
Appolas and Mary (Yule) Turner, natives of Grandfilla, Vt., and Warren, N. Y.  
When a young man he came to Warren and engaged in farming until his death, 
January 27, 1892, aged eighty-six. He was a Democrat. His wife survives him, 
aged eighty-one. They had three children: Sylvester, of Minnesota; Nicholas, 
of Branch, Mich., and Hannah M. Subject and wife have had two children: 
Willard J., of New Jersey, and Zula, who died, aged six years.   Mr. and Mrs. 
Tilyon are Universalists.

Additional Comments:
source:
History of Herkimer County, New York : illustrated with portraits of many of 
its citizens
edited by George A. Hardin ; assisted by Frank H. Willard
Syracuse, New York : D. Mason, 1893
550 p., 276 p. : ill., maps, ports.

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