Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-01
DAN1ELsoN AND PUTNAM NEWS

! .s Z r> . the Blue and Gray division during the l recently closed war that the town oi 1 Annfstan,s Ala, where Camp McCIel- 1 Ian was established and this, the 29th Division. trained. was feuRded by Connecticut men, some of them from this immediate vicinity: s5.sf
 The entire property on which tffe land stands was purchased by General Daniel Tyler. of NoFwSch. ptfoE 4os the Civil war, and the town was develop ed by his two sons, Captain Edmund Leighton Tyler and Alfred Les Ty lor both born in Connecticut.
 When the Tylers went ito Anniston
 it was a .beaJitifu3 valley, but there were only scattered farms here and
 there to- indicate that white men had
 been there before them. The town was given the name Anniston in honor of
 Captain Ty1er's wife, who was. Miss
 Annie E. Scott of New York.
 Of this Tyler family that has given
 the south such a beautifuls town. Dan
 iel Tyler: a grandson of Hopesti1I
 Tyler, lived in. Canterbury and Brook
 1yn, this state. He lived to- be 100
 years of age. and always was an infu-
 ential citizen-s Atss his deaths he had
 had three wives and twenty -one chiI-
 dren.' fifty grandchiTdren and 121
 great-grandchildren. On his tomb
 stone is the verse: Although one hundred years I've seep, my life was
 short. twas all a drearn."s
 Tracing out the family history of
 the founders of Anniston, one finds
 that in the next generation marriage connections, were made with the, Put
 nam and Edwards families xCap
 tain Daniel sFyfer Served as lad jutant on the staff of General Israel JFutnam, and after the war married his sdaugh- married Mrs. Sarah Edwards Chaplin, daughter of Timothy Edwards. His son was General Daniel Tyler, of Nor wich, of the Civil war and one of the most noted leaders in that great con fict. He was a graduate of West Point and an officer in the regular army at the outbreak Of the war. At one time he commanded at Harper's Ferry and served with distinction through four years of fighting. At the conclusion of the war he entered bus mess and amaSsed a fortune His sum mer residence at Capote Farm, Texas contained 10000 acres and he had property in New York and a beaHtiful known of his descendants isi his grand niece, Mrs. Theodore Roose- welt. His grandson Frederick. Os- good Tyler son of the late Col. Au- gustus c. Tyler, a native of Norwich. still resides in Anniston.
 TroIIeynen here are interested in what is described as the Shore Line Railway conpany,s declining to arbitrate further as to wage agree ments. The men on the 1ocals line have worked through June under the terms of the old agreement, which ex- pired a month ago. Tn interviews giv- en on Monday by some of them.i it was stated that they did not know just what the outcome would be, Btff it was likely that there would be interesting developments.
 Friday, the Fourth, will be general holiday in .Danie1son with business practically suspended. The Connecti- cut Mills Athletic organization has ar ranged the only public observance of the day for Danielson, although ' Young America is getting ready to see | that the big dayssis properly ushered in, so far as a noisy welcome is con- k cerned. H