A ~ The pioneer who first set up housekeeping in Tyrone was Jacob Burley, in 1850, and the building that served as a dwelling and a store was a story-and-a-half frame. The carpenter who built the house was Mr. George Burley, an active and respected citizen, who bidding fair to welcome in the new century and witness the semi-centennial of the new town of which the Burley stock might truthfully say the oft-quoted words, “Quorum magna pars fui,” or, in homelier speech, “We were a large part of it.”

— From the book, Tyrone of To-day, 1897, by Rev. W. H. Wilson