Twitchell, Ginery – Tyner, James Noble
Twitchell, Ginery
congressman, was born Aug. 26, 1811, in Athol, Mass.
In 1866 he was elected a representative from Massachusetts to the fortieth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfirst and forty-second congresses as a republican. He died July 23, 1883, in Brookline, Mass. TWITCHELL, JOSEPH HOPKINS, clergyman, author, was born in 183-, in Connecticut. He is a congregational clergyman of Hartford from 1865; and the author of Life of John Winthrop; and Some Old Puritan Love Letters.
Tydings, Richard
clergyman, author, was born June 16, 1783, in Anne Arundel county, Md. He was a member of the Louisville conference at the time of his death. He wrote a work on Apostolical Succession: He died Oct. 3, 1865, in Bullitt county, Ky.
Tyler, Asher
lawyer, congressman, was born May 10, 1798, in Bridgewater, N.
Y. He was a representative from New York to the twenty-eighth congress. He subsequently settled in Elmira, where he was extensively identified with railway operations. He died in August, 1875, in Elmira, N. Y.
Tyler, Bennet
clergyman, author, was born July 10, 1783, in Middlebury, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman; president of Dartmouth college in 1822-28; and subsequently minister at Portland, Maine. He was the author of History of New Haven Theology; The Sufferings of Christ; New England Revivals; and Lectures on Christian Nurture. He died May 14, 1858, in South Windsor, Conn.
Tyler, Charles Humphrey
soldier, was born in 1826, in Virginia. He entered the confederate service; became a brigadier-general; and was killed in battle at West Point, Ga. He died April 17, 1865, in West Point, Ga.
Tyler, Charles Mellen
educator, author, was born in 1832, in Maine.
He is a professor of the history and philosophy of religion at Cornell university from 1891; and the author of Bases of Religious Belief, Historic and Ideal.
Tyler, D. Gardiner
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born in 1846, in East Hampton, Long Island, N. Y.
He was director on board of state lunatic asylum at Williamsburg, Va., from 1884 to 1887; was visitor of William and Mary college; and was presidential elector in 1888 on the democratic ticket. He was elected in 1891 to the state senate; and was elected to the fifty-third; and reelected to the fifty-fourth congress.
Tyler, Daniel
soldier, civil engineer, was born Jan. 7, 1799, in Brooklyn, Conn. He became colonel of the first regiment, Connecticut volunteers; was promoted to brigadier-general; and manded at Harper's Ferry when the confederate army invaded Pennsylvania. com-
Tyler, Erastus B
soldier, was born April 24, 1822, in West Bloomfield, N. Y. He was commissioned colonel of the seventh Ohio volunteers in 1861; and in 1862 was made brigadier-general. He died Jan. 9, 1891, in Calverton, Md.
Tyler, James M
lawyer, congressman, was born April 27, 1835, in Wilmington, Vt. He was a representative in the Vermont legislature in 1863 and 1864; state's attorney in 1866 and 1867; and became a trustee in the state insane asylum in 1875. He was elected a representative from Vermont to the forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.
Tyler, John
lawyer, jurist, was born in Virginia. In 1811 he was appointed a judge of the United States district court for the district of Virginia.
Tyler, John
tenth president of the United States, was born March 29, 1790, in Williamsburg, Va., and at the age of seventeen he graduated at William and Mary college. At the age of nineteen he was admitted to the bar; and at the age of twenty-one (1811) he was elected to the Virginia legislature; and held the office five successive years.
In 1813 he married Miss Lucretia Christian. She died in 1842; and in 1844 he married Miss Julia Gardiner. In 1816 he was elected a representative in congress; and served two terms. In 1823 he was elected a member of the state legislature; and in 1825 he was elected governor of Virginia. He was elected United States senator in 1827; and re-elected in 1833, but resigned his seat in 1836. In 1838 he was again elected to the state legislature; and in 1840 was elected vice-president of the United States.
Upon the death of President Harrison, in accordance with Article III. of the constitution, he became president of the United States. Mr. Tyler was at his residence in Virginia when Mr. Harrison died (April 4), but reached Washington and took the oath of office April 6, 1841.
At the close of his official term (March 4, 1845) he retired to his estate near Williamsburg, and died Jan. 17, 1862. He was a member of the secession congress at the time of his death. Tyler held office twenty-seven years. He died rich.
Tyler, John Mason
educator, author, was born in 18-. He is a professor of biology at Amherst college; and the author of The Whence and the Whither of Man.
Tyler, Joseph
clergyman, author, was born in 18-. He was a congregational missionary in South Africa for forty years; for the last ten years of his life a resident of St. Johnsbury, Vt. He was the author of Forty Years Among the Zulus. He died in 1895.
Tyler, Lyon Gardiner
author, was born August, 1853, in Charles City county, Va. He has been president of William and Mary college since 1888; and is the author of The Letters and Times of The Tylers; and Parties and Patronage in the United States.
Tyler, Moses Coit
educator, author, was born Aug. 2, 1835, in Griswold, Conn. He is a professor of American history at Cornell university from 1881.
From 1860 to 1881 he was a member of the congregational ministry, but in the latter year took orders in the episcopal church. He is best known by an admirable History of American Literature During the Colonial Period, 1606-1765, which is as readable as it is scholarly, the style being both vigorous and original. He is the author of The Brawnville Papers; Life of Patrick Henry; Three Men of Letters (Berkeley, Dwight, Joel Barlow); The Literary History of the American Revolution; and Manual of English Literature.
Tyler, Ransom Hebbard
lawyer, banker, author, was born Nov. 18, 1813, in Leyden, Mass. He was a lawyer and bank president of Fulton, N. Y.; and the author of The Bible and Social Reform; American Ecclesiastical Law; Commentaries on the Law of Infancy and Covertures; Ejectment and Adverse Enjoyment; Usury; Pawns and Loans; Fixtures; and Boundaries, Fences, and Window Lights.
He died Nov. 27, 1881, in Fulton, N. Y.
Tyler, Robert
lawyer, journalist, author, was born in 1818, in New Kent county, Va. He was a lawyer of Philadelphia; and after the civil war a journalist in Montgomery, Ala. He was the author of Ahasuerus, a Poem; Death, a Poem; and Is Virginia a Repudiating State? He died Dec. 3, 1877, in Montgomery, Ala. a
Tyler, Robert Ogden
soldier, was born Dec. 22, 1831, in Greene county, N.
Y. He served with distinction in the civil war; and attained the rank of brigadier-general. He died Dec. 1, 1874, in Boston, Mass.
Tyler, Royall
lawyer, jurist, author, was born July 18, 1757, in Boston, Mass. He was a Vermont jurist; chief justice of the supreme court of his state from 1800; and the author of Reports of Vermont Supreme Court Cases; The Contrast, a brilliant comedy, the first American play acted by regular comedians, and the earliest in which Yankee dialect is employed; May Day, a comedy; The Georgia Speculator, or Land in the Moon; The Algerine Captive; Moral Tales for American Youths; and The Yankey in London. He died Aug. 16, 1826, in Brattleporo, Vt.
Tyler, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, author, was born Oct. 22, 1809, in Prince George county, Md. He was a jurist of Frederick, Md.; and the author of The Progress of Philosophy; Discourse on the Baconian Philosophy; Burns as Poet and as a Man; Memoir of Chief Justice Taney; and Commentary on the Law of Partnership. He died Dec. 15, 1878, in Georgetown, D. C. a
Tyler, W. D
railroad president, was born Jan. 12, 1849, in Port Huron, Mich.
Since 1892 he has been president of the Washington and Columbia River railway, at Walla Walla, Wash.
Tyler, William
Roman catholic bishop, was born June 5, 1806, in Derby, Vt. In 1843 the new diocese of Hartford was created, and Father Tyler was consecrated its first bishop. He was consecrated on March 17, 1844, and went to Providence, R. I., which he made his episcopal residence. He died June 18, 1849, in Providence, R. I.
Tyler, William Seymour
clergyman, educator, author, was born Sept. 2, 1810, in Hartford, Pa. He is a congregational clergyman and educator; professor at Amherst college from 1836; and now professor emeritus of the Greek language and literature. He is the author of Prayer for Colleges; Theology of the Greek Poets; editions of Tacitus and the Iliad of Homer; and History of Amherst College.
Tylor, Wilson Moore
educator, journalist, was born June 2, 1856, near Denton, Md. Since 1885 he has been the editor and proprietor of The Gazette, of Easton, Md.
Tyner, James Noble
lawyer, state senator, congressman, governor, was born Jan. 17, 1826, in Brookville, Ind. He was secretary of the Indiana senate for four sessions from 1857; and was a presidential elector in 1860. He was a special agent of the postoffice department from 1861 to 1866; and was elected to the forty-first, forty-second and forty-third congresses.
Immediately after leaving congress he was appointed governor of Colorado. In 1875 he was appointed second assistant postmaster-general, which position he held until 1876, when he was promoted to the post of first assistant postmaster-general, continuing in office until 1881. During 1889-93 he was law adviser of the postoffice department. 4