Page:The Biographical Dictionary of America, vol. 10.djvu/232

 TYLER

TYLER

nineteen, and the troops "to be removed" in (•oiupliance with General Twipj^s's agreement, were 23-28: but on April 11, 18(51, Col. Earl Van Dorn (q.v.) was sent by the Confederate au- thorities to intercept and prevent the move- meat of the U.S. troops from Texas, and he cap- tured 815 officers and men. General Twiggs was dismissed from the U.S. army, March 1, 1861; was commissioned major-general in the Confed- arate service and ranking general in the army, and was placed in command at New Orleans. He was obliged soon after to retire from active service on account of infirmities due to liis age. He was twice married; first, to Elizabeth Hunter of Virginia, and secondly, to a ^Irs. Hunt. He died near Augusta. Ga., Sept. 15, 1863.

TYLER, Bennett, educator, was born in Wooi-lbury (now Middlebury), Conn., July 10, 1783. He was graduated from Y'ale, A. B., 1804, A.M., 1807; was principal of an academy at Weston (now Easton), Conn., 1804-05, and studied theology at Goshen, Conn., under the Rev. Ashael Hooker, 1805-07, being licensed to preach in 1806. He was pastor of the Congregational church at South Britain, Conn., 1807-22; president of Dart- mouth college, 1822-28, supplying the college pulpit during his presidency and conducting a revival in 182G, and pastor of the Second Congre- gational church, Portland, Maine. 1828-33. He was president and professor of Cliristian theology (1834-57) of the Theological institute at East Windsor, Conn., founded by a union of conserva- tive clergymen who opposed the " new school" of theology as expounded by the Rev. Dr. Nathaniel W. Taylor. He was married to Esther Stone of Southbury, Conn. Their son, the Rev. Josiah E. Tyler, author of "Forty Years among the Zulus," died in Asheville, N.C., Dec. 20, 1895. Bennett Tyler was a triLstee of Dartmouth college, 1822-29, and received the honorary degree of D.D. from Middlebury college in 1823. He is the author of: History of the New Haven Theology (1837); Review of Day on the Will (1837); Suf- ferings of Christ (1845); Memoir of Dr. Ashael Xettleton (1844); Ne7o England Revivals (1846); Letters to Horace Bushnell (2 vols., 1847-48), Work of the Soul, and Lectures on Tlieology, pub- lished posthumously (1859). He died in South Windsor, Conn., May 14, 1858.

TYLER, Daniel, soldier, was born in Brooklyn, Conn.. Feb. 22, 1799. He was graduated from the U.S. Military academy, as 2d lieutenant of light artillery in 1819, and was promoted 2d lieutenant, 5th infantry, on the reorganization of the army, June 1, 1^21. He served in garrison in New England, 1819-24; was promoted 1st lieu- tenant, Ist artillery. May 6, 1)^24; was adjutant of the artillery school at Fort Monroe, Va., 1826- 27, and superintendent of contract arms, 1830-33.

He resigned from the ami}-, ]\La}' 31, 1834; en- gaged in civil-engineering, 1834-61, and was con- nected with several raihvays as superintendent and president. He was commissioned colonel, 1st Connecticut volunteers, April 23. 1S61; served in the defence of Washington, D.C., March-Jul)-, 1861; being promoted brigadier-general of volun- teers. May 10, 1861, and commanded the 1st di- vision in the Manassas campaign, taking part in the action of Blackburn's Ford, Va., the battle of Bull Run, and in the defences of Washington, July- August, 1861. He was mustered out on the expiration of his term of enlistment, Aug. 11,

1861; was re -appointed brigadier-general, U.S.V., Marcii 13, 1862, and served in the Mississippi campaign, April-June, 1862. He was on sick leave of absence, June-August, 1862; recniited regiments in Connecticut. August -September,

1862; commanded Fort Douglas, 111., September- November, 1862, and served on the military com- mission, investigating General Buell's campaign in Kentucky and Tennessee, 1862-63. He took part in the action at Martinsburg, Va., June 14,

1863; was in command at Harper's Ferry and Maryland Heights, and of the troops at Baltimore, Md., and of the District of Delaware. 1863-64. He resigned his commission, April 6, 1864, retiring to Red Bank, N.J.; founded Armiston, Ala., in 1872, and was president of the Mobile and Montgomery railway, 1873-79. He died in New Y'ork city, Nov. 30, 1882.

TYLER, David Gardiner, representative, was born in East Hampton. Long Island, N.Y''., July 12, 1846; son of President John (q.v.) and Julia (Gardiner) Tyler. He entered Washington col- lege, Lexington, Va., in 1862, but left in 1863 to join the Confederate army, serving as a private in the Army of Northern Virginia until the sur- render at Appomattox. He went to Europe in 1865, pursuing a course of classical studies at Carlsruhe, and on his return in 1867 again entered Washington college, from which he was grad- uated, LL.B., 1869. He was admitted to the bar in 1870 and began practice in Charles City county, Va. He was married, June 6, 1894, to Mary, daughter of James Alfred and Mary (Lyon) Jones of Richmond, Va. He was a presidential elector on the Cleveland and Thurman ticket. 1888, member of the Virginia state senate, 1891-93, and a Democratic representative from the second Virginia district in the 53d and 54th congresses, 1893-97, after which he resumed the practice of his profession. He was again elected to the state senate in 1899, of which body he was still a men^- ber in 1903. He served as a member of the board of directors of the state asylum, 1884-87. and also served as a member of the board of visitors of the College of William and Mary, at Williamsburg, Va., continuously from 1874.