Tyler Grain & Fertilizer Company

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Tyler Grain & Fertilizer Company
Formerly called Tyler Grain Company; Tyler Grain Co Feed Mill & Grain Elevator
Type Grain Mills
Industry Manufacturing
Fate Active
Founded Weilersville, Ohio (1864 (1864))
Founder(s) Clenn D. Reed
Headquarters Smithville, Ohio, United States
Number of locations 3388 Eby Rd, Smithville, Ohio
Products Grains, seeds and wool (1860).
Services Feed grinding a specialty.
Website www.tylersfertilizer.com

Locations

City Directories

  • 1884 No business address:
    • W. D. Tyler, grain merchant
    • Jacob Frick, flour & feed dealer; wool dealer
  • 1894-1895 warehouse located rear of county offices
    • W. D. Tyler, grain merchant
    • Frick and Tyler
  • 1896 located rear of county offices
    • W. D. Tyler, grain & seed
  • 1900 located rear of Frick's Memorial blk
    • W. D. Tyler, grain merchant
  • 1908-1909 W.D. Tyler and Son, located rear of courthouse
    • Jacob F. Tyler and William D. Tyler, grain, seed & wool
  • 1912-1913 Tyler Grain Co, offices located rear Freedlander's
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler, Proprietors
  • 1915 Tyler Grain Co., rear 127 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1919 Tyler Grain Co., rear 127 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1923 Tyler Grain Co., rear 125 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler
    • grain, seeds, flour & feed
  • 1925 Tyler Grain Co., rear 125 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1928 Tyler Grain Co., 135 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler
    • grain, seeds & feed
  • 1930 Tyler Grain Co., 135 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1932 Tyler Grain Co., rear 131 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1934-1935 Tyler Grain Co., rear 131 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1937 Tyler Grain Co., rear 131 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1939 Tyler Grain Co., rear 131 W. Liberty St., Wooster
    • J. Frick Tyler and Walter W. Tyler
  • 1940 Tyler Grain & Fertilizer Co., 619 Madison Ave., Wooster
    • Walter W. Tyler, President
    • J. Frick Tyler, Vice-President
    • Walter F. Tyler, Treasurer
    • Portia Hines, Secretary
  • 1943 Tyler Grain & Fertilizer Co., 619 Madison Ave., Wooster
    • Walter W. Tyler, President and General Manager
    • J. Frick Tyler, Treasurer
    • Portia Hines, Secretary

Comprehensive History

Slogans

  • 1906 "We Pay Top Prices" -- [1]

Timeline

  • 1864 - Opened

Gallery

  • Circa 1914 image of the Tyler Grain Company.

  • Business logo circa 1962.


Historical documents

  • Wooster High School annual -- [2]
  • Wooster, Ohio Sesquicennial Celebration, June 14-21, 1958, p. 30.
  • Wooster Progress (1914)
    • 1914 - Grain

"This Company began operation in 1864 and now has to its credit fifty years of successful business and honest endeavor. They are wholesale and retail dealers in grain of all kinds, seeds, wool, flour, feed, salt, fertilizer, lime and cement. Their elevator has a complete cleaning outfit for grain and seeds. [3]

Business letterheads

  • TylerGrain&FertilizerCo-Statement.jpg
  • 75px-Tyler Grain Co front.jpg
  • 75px-Tyler Grain Co back.jpg

Business photos

Maps

  • Sanborn Maps 1905

  • Sanborn Maps 1911

  • Sanborn Maps 1923

  • Sanborn Maps 1930

  • Sanborn Maps 1930-1945

Newspaper articles

Newspaper full-text articles

Newspaper ads

1917

1918

1919

1920

No date

Newspaper citations with no attached images

References

  1. ↑ Wooster High School annual. 1906. Wooster, Ohio
  2. ↑ Wooster High School annual. 1906. Wooster, Ohio
  3. ↑ Wooster Progress. 1914, p. 31.
  4. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-01-08, p. 5.
  5. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1917-02-14, p. 6.
  6. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-02-14.
  7. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1918-08-10, p. 3.
  8. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-02-14, p. 3.
  9. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-08-08, p. 2.
  10. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1919-12-22, p. 4.
  11. ↑ Wooster Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-02, p. 5.
  12. ↑ Wooster Daily Republican. Wooster, Ohio, 1920-01-23, p. 8


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