Comfort Tyler

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Comfort Tyler, one of the original settlers of modern Syracuse, New York brought his family in spring of 1788 to what became the hamlet of Onondaga Hollow on the future Seneca Turnpike, south of the center of the modern city. He joined Asa Danforth and Ephraim Webster. the first white settle there, who obtained permission of the Onondaga (tribe) for them to settle. Comfort Tyler built the more ambitious house in Onondaga Hollow and contributed his engineering skills to development of central New York.