Comfort Tyler (February 22, 1764August 5, 1827), one of the original settlers of modern

Syracuse, New York Syracuse ( ) is a City (New York), city in and the county seat of Onondaga County, New York, United States. With a population of 148,620 and a Syracuse metropolitan area, metropolitan area of 662,057, it is the fifth-most populated city and 13 ...

, brought his family in the spring of 1788 to what became the hamlet of

Onondaga Hollow Onondaga Hollow, also known as Onondaga Valley, was a village in Onondaga County, New York, from 1784 to 1926. It was the first county seat and one of the most prominent settlements in the early years of white inhabitation in the region. The villag ...

on the future

Seneca Turnpike The Seneca Road Company was formed to improve the main road running west from Utica, New York, the Genesee Road, from Utica to Canandaigua and operate it as a toll road or turnpike. The road became known as the Seneca Turnpike, which was long an ...

, south of the city's center today. He joined

Asa Danforth Asa Danforth (1746-1818) was father of salt manufacturer and an early colonizer Asa Danforth Jr. Danforth was originally from Worcester, Massachusetts and moved his family to the Onondaga Valley area of New York. He was known to have anti-Britis ...

and

Ephraim Webster Ephraim Webster (June 30, 1762 - October 16, 1824) was the first Euro-American settler in Central New York when he arrived in 1786 to an area later named Syracuse. For three decades, the Onondagas trusted him more than any other non-tribe member. ...

, the first whites to settle there, who had obtained permission to live there from the

Onondaga Onondaga may refer to: Native American/First Nations * Onondaga people, a Native American/First Nations people and one of the five founding nations of the Iroquois League * Onondaga (village), Onondaga settlement and traditional Iroquois capit ...

. Tyler built the more ambitious house in Onondaga Hollow and contributed his engineering skills to the development of

Central New York The central region of New York state includes: * Auburn in Cayuga County * Cortland in Cortland County * Oneida in Madison County * Syracuse, the largest city of Central New York, in Onondaga County * Fulton and Oswego in Oswego County ...

. Tyler was a member of the

New York State Assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits. The Ass ...

in 1796, representing Onondaga County, and an unsuccessful Federalist candidate for the 16th congressional district in 1802, losing to John Patterson.

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Colonel Comfort Tyler at OnondagaComfort Tyler Memorial Pyramid in Oakwood CemeteryColonel Comfort Tyler memorial
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