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Richmond. After the passage of the ordinance of secession he was appointed chairman of the committee to confer with Alexander IL Ste- pliens, the duly accredited commissioner for the Confederate States of America, on a union of Virginia with the Confederate States, and the articles adopted were ratified by the convention the next day, and by the people at the polls, I^Liy 23, 186L When the Confederate provisional congress reassembled at Ricliniond, Va., July 20, 1861. having adjourned at Montgomery to meet at the newly appointed capital, the Virginia dele- gation was headed by Mr. Tyler, and he was elected in November, 1861, a representative from Virginia, to the first regular Confederate States congress to assemble, Feb. 22, 1862. Before the regular congress met, Ex-President Tyler died, in Richmond. Va., Jan. 18. 1862.

TYLER, Lyon Gardiner, eilucator, was born at the family homestead, "Slier wood Forest," Charles City county, Va.. in August, 1853; son of Presi- dent John and Julia (Gardiner) Tyler. He at- tended private schools in Charles City county and in Staten Island, N.Y.; was graduated from the University of Virginia, A.B., 1874, A.M., 1875: subsequently studied law; was professor of belles-lettres in Will- iam and Mary col- "- lege, Williamsburg, Va., 1877-78, and principal of a high school in Memphis, Tenn., 1878-82. He was married, Nov. 14, 1878, to Annie Baker, daughter of Col. St. George and Elizabeth (Gilmer) Tucker of Charlottesville, Va. He began the practice of law in Richmond, Va., in September, 1882; was a member of the state legislature, 1887, and in August, 1888, became president of William and Mary college, and also professor of moral piiil- osophy, and subsequently of American history and politics, still retaining the presidency in 1903. The honorary degree of LL.D. was conferred upon him by Trinity college in 1895. Dr. Tyler was a founder of the Virginia Mechanics' institute in Richmond; a momber of the executive commit- tee of the Virginia Historical society; a member of the American Historical and Philosophical so- cieties, and of various other historical and gene- alogical organizations, and of the state board of education in 190:$. He became editor and pro- prietor of the William and Mary college Quart erhj Historical Magazine at the time of its establish-

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ment, 1892, and is the author of: The Letters and Times of the Tylers (3 vols., 1884-96); Parties and Patronage in Putnam's "Question of the Day Series" (1891); The Cradle of the Republic (1900), and of several iianijjhlets and addresses.

TYLER, noses Coit, educator, was born in Griswold, Conn., Aug. 2, 1835: his middle name being adopted in 1862 at the request of his cousin. Dr. Daniel T. Coit. He removed to Detroit, Mich.; was graduated from Yale, A.B., 1857, A.M., 1803, and attended Y^ale Theological semin- ary, 1857-58, and Andover Theological seminary, 1858-59. He was ordained to the Congregational ministry, Aug. 25, 1859, and was pastor at Owego, N.Y\, 1859-60. He was married, Oct. 26, 1859, to Jennie H., daughter of Jessie Gilbert of New Haven, Conn. He was pastor at Poughkeepsie, N.Y^., 1860-62, and traveled in Europe, 1863-66, lecturing, and writing for various American pub- lications. He was professor of rhetoric and Eng- lish literature at the University of Michigan, 1867-73; professor of English language and liter- ature, 1873-81, and was chosen professor of American history and literature in Cornell uni- versity in 1881. He was ordered deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church at St. Andrew's, Ann Arbor, Mich.. Oct. 16, 1881, by Bishop Har- ris, and ordained priest at St. John's, Ithaca, N.Y., in 1883, by Bishop Cox. The honorary de- gree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Wooster university in 1875, and that of L.H.D. by Colum- bia in 1888. He was literary editor of the Chris- tian Union, New York city, 1873-74, and is the author of: Braumville Papers (1868); History of American Literature (4 vols., 1878-98): Manual of English Literature (1879); Life of Patrick Henry {18SS), and Olimpses of England; Social, Political and Literary (1898). He died in Ithaca, N.Y., Dec. 28, 1900.

TYLER, Robert C, soldier, was born in Mary- land. He accompanied Gen. AVilliam Walker on his Nicaragua expedition in 1859; subsequently settled in Memphis, Tenn.; entered the Confed- erate service in 1861 as quarter-master of the 15th Tennessee regiment, and was soon after transferred in the same capacity to the staff of General Cheatham. He was afterward promoted lieutenant-colonel, 15th Tennessee regiment, at- tached to the 1st brigade, Cheatham's 2d division, Polk's 1st army corps; was promoted colonel, and in the Chattanooga campaign commanded Bate's brigade, Breckinridge's division under Bate, Hardie's corps, being severeh' wounded at the battle of Missionary Ridge, Nov. 23-25, 1863. He was absent from the field for several months, and while invalided at West Point, Ga., was promoted brigadier-general. Upon the advance of Gen. O. H. La Grange with a brigade of Gen- eral Wilson's cavalry to West Point, April 16,