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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 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, 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