TUSCARAWAS COUNTY OHIO -  BIO: SYLER, Asa Harvey (published 1925)
***********************************************************************
OHGENWEB NOTICE:  All distribution rights to this electronic data are
reserved by the submitter.  Reproduction or re-presentation of 
copyrighted material will require the permission of the copyright owner. 
The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the
file permanently for free access.
***********************************************************************
File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by
Submitter: MRS GINA M REASONER
Email: AUPQ38A@prodigy.com 
Date: August 4, 1999
***********************************************************************

HISTORY OF OHIO
The American Historical Society, Inc., 1925
Volume IV, page 417-418

        ASA HARVEY SYLER, M.D.  In the highly prosperous rural community of
Sugar Creek in Tuscarawas County the outstanding representative of the
medical profession for over twenty years has been Dr. Asa Harvey Syler. He
was born in Tuscarawas County, was a teacher for some years, and has earned
a very creditable record in all the relations of a busy life.
        He was born at Baltic, in Tuscarawas County, January 31, 1869, son
of John and Catherine (Lint) Syler, the Syler family being of Belgian
ancestry. John Syler was born in Holmes County, Ohio, October 1, 1840, son
of Thomas and Hosannah (Leader) Syler, natives of Pennsylvania. Catherine
Lint was born in Tuscarawas County, May 20, 1845, and died February 4,
1921. Her parents, Daniel and Catherine (Klingaman) Lint, came from
Pennsylvania. John Syler married Catherine Lint in 1863. They were devout
members of the Church of the Brethren of Dunkard, and John Syler has been a
staunch republican. As a young man he followed the tanning trade, and for a
time owned a tannery at Baltic. Later he was in the meat business, for
forty years a buyer of live stock, and since 1890 has lived on a farm near
Baltic. He and his wife reared six children: James A., public service
director of the the City of Canton; Elmer F., a farmer near Baltic; Asa H.;
Ellen, wife of N.A. Schrock, a farmer on the Syler homestead; Charles G., a
train despatcher for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway at Massillon; and
John J., a train despatcher with the Northern Pacific Railway at Jamestown,
North Dakota.
        Asa Harvey Syler was educated in public schools, and at the age of
seventeen, taught his first term in a country district. His work as a
teacher continued from 1885 to 1898. For a time he was superintendent of
schools at Baltic and later at Greentown. In the meantime he had pursued
summer courses in the Ohio Northern University at Ada, and began his
professional preparations in the Ohio Medical University, now the medical
department of the Ohio State University. He received his Doctor of Medicine
degree in 1902. He is engaged in general practice, and is a member of the
County, State and American Medical associations.
        Doctor Syler was county coroner from 1903 to 1905. Since 1914 he
has been a member of the County School Board, being always deeply
interested in educational problems. Since 1922 he has been president of the
county board of health. Doctor Syler is a republican, is a member of the
United Brethren Church and in Masonry he has taken the thirty-second degree
in Scottish Rites, is a member of the Mystic Shrine and also belongs to the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
        Doctor Syler in 1890 married Mary Speelman. She died in 1915, the
mother of three children: Joyce, who graduated in 1918 from the Domestic
Science School at Battle Creek, Michigan, was a teacher for five years in
Kentucky, and is a member of the graduating class of 1925 in the Ohio State
University; Orpha, wife of Lewis Froelich, of Sugar Creek; and Frederick
L., in college. Doctor Syler in 1916 married Mabel V. Putt. Prior to her
marriage she had been principal of the high school at Sugar Creek for five
years. She has always been an active worker in Sunday school and church,
and is at present one of the officers of the Woman's Missionary Society of
the United Brethren church, East Ohio Conference.


==== OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List ====