SHERMAN D. SYLER, dealing in real estate, bonds, loans, investments and insurance, is one of Piqua's representative business men. He was born September 29, 1872, near Troy, Ohio, a son of Samuel Syler.

The late Samuel Syler was born in Miami County, in which his life was spent, he dying at the early age of twenty-nine years. The Syler family has been established in this county from its earliest days and in every important sense is a representative one.

Sherman D. Syler was educated in the schools of Troy and when he put aside his books he became a clerk and served as such with different employers for seven years He then came to Piqua and continued in mercantile pursuits for ten years.

In 1895 he engaged in a partnership in his present line of business, with Ira T. Swartz, and in 1896 he purchased his partner's interest and since then has continued in the business alone, through energy and business capacity placing himself in the front rank in this line.

In 1898 Mr. Syler was married to Miss Bessie M. Knouff, a daughter of the late Dr. Knouff, a leading physician of Ansonia, Darke County, Ohio, and they have one little daughter, Mary Elizabeth. Mr. Syler and wife are members of the Green Street Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he has been treasurer of the Sunday school for seven years. His activity in politics is not pronounced, but his duties as a public-spirited citizen are never neglected.