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200 dential party. His body was taken to the White House, and Miss Gardiner, being thrown in the society of the president under these peculiar cir- cumstances, be- came the object of his marked atten- tion, which result- ed in their mar- riage in New York city, 26 June, 1844. For the succeeding eight months she presided over the White House with dignity and grace, her residence there terminating with a birth-night ball on 22 Feb., 1845. Mrs. Tyler retired with her husband to " Sherwood Forest " in Virginia at the conclusion of his term, and after the civil war resided for several years at her mother's residence on Castleton Hill, Staten island, and subsequently in Richmond, Va. She is a con- vert to Roman Catholicism, and devoted to the charities of that church. — Her son, Lyon Gardi- ner, b. in Charles City county, Va., in August, 1853, was graduated at the University of Virginia in 1875, and then studied law. During his college course he was elected orator of the Jefferson society, and obtained a scholarship as best editor of the "Vir- ginia University Magazine." In January, 1877, he was elected professor of belles-lettres in William and Mary college, which place he held until No- vember, 1878, when he became head of a high- school in Memphis, Tenn. He settled in Rich- mond, Va., in 1882, and entered on the practice of law, also taking an active interest in politics. He was a candidate for the house of delegates in 1885, and again in 1887, when he was elected. In that body he advocated the bills to establish a labor bureau, to regulate child labor, and to aid William and Mary college. In 1888 he was elected presi- dent of William and Mary, which office he now fills. He has published " The Letters and Times of the Tvlers " (2 vols., Richmond, 1884-'5). TYLER, Moses Coit, educator, b. in Griswold, Conn., 2 Aug., 1835. He was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied theology there and at Andover, and was pastor of the 1st Congregational church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1860-'2. He was profes- sor of the English language and literature in the University of Michigan in 1867-'81, and since that time has occupied the chair of American history in Cornell university. He was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in St. Andrew's, Ann Arbor, Mich., 16 Oct., 1881, by Bishop Harris, and priest in St. John's, Ithaca, N. Y., in 1883, by Bishop Coxe. In 1873-'4 he was literary editor of " The Christian Union " in New York, and he has contributed to reviews and magazines. He re- ceived the degree of LL. I). from Wooster university in 1875, and that of L. H. D. from Columbia

in 1888. Prof. Tyler has published "Brawnville Papers" (Boston, 1868) ; " History of American Lit- erature " (first 2 vols., New York, 1878) ; " Manual of English Literature " (1879) ; and " Life of Pat- rick Henry " (Boston, 1888).

TYLER, Ransom Hebbard, author, b. in Ley- den, Franklin co., Mass., 18 Nov., 1813 ; d. in Ful- ton, Oswego co., N. Y., 27 Nov., 1881. At an early age he removed with his parents to Oswego county, was educated at Mexico academy, N. Y., studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practised his profession in Fulton, where he was also president of a bank. He held various local offices, including those of district attorney and county judge for Oswego county, and was also a general in the New York state militia. He travelled in Europe, Asia, and Africa. Hamilton gave him the degree of M. A. in 1853. Judge Tyler edited the " Oswego Gazette," contributed to magazines, law-journals, and newspapers, and published " The Bible and Social Reform, or the Scriptures as a Means of Civilization" (Philadelphia, 1863); "American Ec- clesiastical Law" (Albany, 1866); "Commentaries on the Law of Infancy and Covertures " (1868) : " Ejectment and Adverse Enjoyment " (1870) ; " Ty- ler on Usury, Pawns, and Loans" (1873); "Ty- ler on Boundaries, Fences, and Window-Lights" (1874); "On Fixtures" (1877); and biographical sketches of early settlers of Oswego county.

TYLER, Robert Ogden, soldier, b. in Greene county, N. Y., 22 Dec, 1831 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 1 Dec, 1874. When he was seven years old his parents took him to Hartford, Conn., and he was appointed from that state to the U. S. military academy, where he was graduated in 1853. He was assigned to the 3d artillery, and served on frontier duty till the civil war, being engaged against hostile Indians in the Spokane expedition of 1858. In April, 1861, he was on the expedition to relieve Fort Sumter, and witnessed its bombardment, and on 17 May, after opening communication through Baltimore in command of a light battery, after the attack on the 6th Massachusetts regiment, he was made assistant quartermaster with rank of captain, and served in the defences of Washington. On 29 Aug., at the special request of the Connecticut authorities, he was allowed by the war department to undertake the reorganization of the 4th Connecticut regiment, which had become demoralized, and was commissioned its colonel. Under Col. Tyler the regiment became one of the best in the army, and in January, 1862, it was made the 2d Connecticut heavy artillery. With it he took part in the peninsular campaign, and on 29 Nov., 1862, he was made brigadier-general of volunteers. At Fredericksburg he had charge of the artillery of the centre grand division and was brevetted major for gallantry, and on 2 May, 1863, he was given command of the artillery reserve of the Army of the Potomac. In this capacity he did efficient service at Chancellorsville, at Gettysburg, where two horses were shot under him. and in the Rapidan campaign. He was subsequently a division commander in the 22d corps, covering Washington, and in May, 1864. was assigned a division of heavy artillery that acted as infantry. On 19 May, while on the extreme right in the actions about Spottsylvania. he drove back an attack of Ewell's corps, and was publicly thanked, with his men,»by Gen. Meade for " gallant conduct and