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H. F. TYLER
Vol. 3, p. 1102-1103

H. F. Tyler is the practical man in charge of what is recognized as
the largest manufacturing plant in the State Of Oklahoma, the Dewey
Portland Cement Company at Dewey. This company was organized and
incorporated in 1906, with a capital of $1,000,000. The general
offices are in Kansas City, and the principal officers of the company
are: Frank E. Tyler, president; Fred L. Williamson, vice president
and sales manager and J. R. Mulvane, of Topeka, treasurer. The large
plant at Dewey was built immediately after the incorporation of the
company, and has a maximum capacity of high grade Portland cement
aggregating 4,000 barrels per day, while the average production is
3,500 barrels. The company also does a large business in crushed
stone, and furnishes crushed stone for building and other uses
throughout the country in a radius of 100 miles around Dewey. There
are few places in the United States with greater advantages for a
Portland cement factory than Dewey, where there is an abundance of
limestone and shale, with fuel from the gas and oil district almost
at the doors of the factory, and it is also very near the coal fields
of Oklahoma and Southern Kansas. The cement is largely sold in
Oklahoma, but is also exported to neighboring states. About 200 men
are employed in the Dewey plant.

Mr. H. F. Tyler is manager of the works at Dewey and constructed the
plant and has had active charge of its operation for nearly ten
years. The plant is one of most modern equipment and its engines
generate 4,800 horse power.

H. F. Tyler was born at Chatfield, Minnesota, in 1865, a son of D.
W. and Harriet M. (FREEMEN) Tyler. The Tyler family is one of
historic prominence in this country, and John Tyler, one time
president, is of the same stock. Mr. Tyler's father was born in
Massachusetts and his mother in Ohio. He died at Junction City,
Kansas May 31, 1914, at the venerable age of eighty-one while the
mother is still living at Junction City. D. W. Tyler was a machinist
by trade, and during the Civil war volunteered as a private, and
subsequently was made inspector of artillery. He was one of the early
settlers in Minnesota, and lived there as a farmer until 1871, when
he located at Dubuque, Iowa. H. F. Tyler attended the public schools
until 1883, and then went out to Marion, South Dakota, then Dakota
Territory and became a bookkeeper in a flour mill erected by his
father and a partner. He remained in Dakota Territory until 1893, and
then went to Junction City, Kansas. until 1893, and then went to
Junction City, Kansas. His father and his brother Frank and Mr. Tyler
erected a flour mill and grain elevator at Junction City, and he
became one of the prominent business men there. In 1901 he was
influential in getting the Interurban Railway constructed between
Junction City and Fort Riley and is still a director in that company.
Since 1906 he has been closely identified with the building and
management of the Dewey Portland Cement Company

Mr. Tyler saw Dakota Territory made into states, and was also in
Indian Territory when it was merged with Oklahoma Territory to form
one state, and voted in favor of statehood in both South Dakota and
Oklahoma. In addition to his chief business Mr. Tyler has extensive
oil interests in Northern Oklahoma. His father was a member of the
first State Legislature from South Dakota.

Mr. Tyler has one son, Donald M., who is a draftsman and mechanical
engineer at the Dewey cement plant. This son was educated in Oklahoma
and in the University of Kansas, and by his marriage of Ima IRWIN,
daughter of John S. Irwin, has one child, Helen Louise.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, November 11, 1998.