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.