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brilliant success." At Cold Harbor he led a brigade ! of picked regiments and received a severe wound in the ankle which lamed him for life and perma- nently shattered his constitution. He saw no more active service. At the close of the war he had received the brevets of lieutenant-colonel for Get- tysburg, colo- nel for Spott- sylvania, major- general of volun- teers and briga- dier-general, IT. S. army, for Cold Harbor, and major - general, U. S. army, for servicesthrough- outthewar. The Connecticut leg- islature thanked him in a resolu- tion, and the citi- zens of Hartford presented him with a sword. After the war Gen.Tylerserved

as chief in the

quartermaster's department successively at Charles- ton, Louisville, San Francisco, New York city, and Boston, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

TYLER, Royall, jurist, b. in Boston, Mass., 18 July, 1757; d. in Brattleborough, Vt., 16 Aug.. 1826. He studied law in the office of John Adams and was for a short time aide to Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, in which station he served in the Shays rebellion in 1786. In 1790 he settled as a lawyer in Guilford, Vt. In 1794 he was made a judge of the supreme court, and in 1800 he became chief justice. Judge Tyler published " Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of Vermont " (2 vols., 1809). He was also a successful dramatist and the author of " The Contrast," the first American play ever acted on a regular stage by an established company of comedians. In this comedy the Yankee dialect and story-telling, now very familiar, were first em- ployed. It was produced in New York in 1786. He also wrote " May-Day, or New York in an Uproar " (1787) ; " The Georgia Spec, or Land in the Moon " (1797) ; .and " The Algerine Captive," a fictitious memoir (2 vols., 1799). Judge Tyler contributed to the " Farmer's Weekly Museum," published at Walpole, N. H., a melange of light verse and social and political squibs purporting to come " from the shop of Messrs. Colon and Spon- dee." He contributed to the " Portfolio " " An Au- thor's Evenings," a series of papers that were sub- sequently collected in a volume and entitled " The Spirit of the Farmer's Museum and Lay Preacher's Gazette." He also wrote for the " New England Galaxy " and other journals, besides composing a variety of songs, odes, and prologues. — His son, Edward Royall. clergyman, b. in Guilford, Vt., in 1800 ; d. in New Haven, Conn., 28 Sept., 1848, was graduated at Yale in 1825 and at the divinity-school in 1828. He was pastor of the South church in Middletown, Conn., from 1827 till 1832, and of the Congregational church in Cole- brook, Conn., in 1833-'6. In 1836-7 he was agent of the American anti-slavery society. From 1838 till 1842 he was editor of the "Connecticut Ob- server," and he was the founder, editor, and pro- prietor of the " New Englander."

TYLER, Samuel, author, b. in Prince George county, Md., 22 Oct., 1809 ; d. in Georgetown, D. C,

Dec, 1878. His father, Grafton, was a tobacco- 

planter. The son was educated at Dr. James Car- nahan's school in Georgetown, devoting himself especially to Greek. He studied at Middlebury in 1827, and, after reading law, was admitted to the bar in_1831, and began to practise in Frederick, Md. In 1852 he was elected one of three commissioners to simplify the pleadings and practice in all the courts of the state, and rendered important service in this capacity. His report, a profound discus- sion on the relative merits of the common and civil law, won wide approbation. In 1867 he was elected professor of law in Columbian college (now univer- sity), Washington, D. C, which office he held until his death. He received the degree of LL. D. from the College of South Carolina in 1858, and from Columbia in 1859. Early devoting himself to meta- physics, he contributed articles on this subject to various magazines, one of which, a " Discourse on the Baconian Philosophy," published in the •' Prince- ton Review," was afterward issued in book-form (Baltimore, 1844). This " Discourse " gained him the friendship and correspondence of Sir William Hamilton, the Scottish philosopher, who wrote to the author in 1848, advising him to abandon the practice of law and to devote himself exclusively to philosophy. On the death of her husband, Lady Hamilton presented Mr. Tyler with a portrait of Sir William as a token of her esteem. He also published " Robert Burns as a Poet and as a Man " (New York, 1848) ; " The Progress of Philosophy in the Past and in the Future " (Philadelphia, 1858 ; 2d ed., 1868) ; and a " Memoir of Roger Brooke Tanev" (Baltimore, 1872).

TYLER, William, R. C. bishop, b. in Derbv, Vt., 5 June, 1806 ; d. in Providence R. I.. 18 June, 1849. At the age of sixteen he became a Roman Catholic, with his parents and all the members of his family. He was educated at a seminary that was conducted by his uncle, the Rev. Virgil Bar- ber, at Claremont. N. H., studied theology under the guidance of Bishop Fenwick, and was ordained a priest in 1828. He was stationed at the cathe- dral at Boston for several years, and was then sent to Aroostook, but returned to Boston, and was ap- pointed vicar-general. In 1843 the new diocese of Hartford was created, and Father Tyler was nomi- nated its first bishop. He was consecrated on 17 March, 1844, and went to Providence, R. I., which he made his episcopal residence. Although he was subject to constant illness, his administration was active and successful, and, principally through the aid he received from missionary societies in Eu- rope, he increased largely the number of churches and priests. Bishop Tyler took part in the sixth and seventh councils of Baltimore.

TYLER, William Seymour, clergyman, b. in Hartford, Susquehanna co., Pa., 2 Sept., 1810. Job, his ancestor, was an early settler of Andover, Mass. After graduation at Amherst in 1830, William was tutor there until 1834. and studied in Andover theological seminary. He was licensed to preach in 1836, and from that date until 1847 was professor of Latin and Greek at Amherst, but since 1847 he has been professor of Greek only. On 6 Oct.. 1859, he was ordained without charge' by a Congregational council at Amherst, and, although he was never a pastor, he has frequently preached in turn with the other professors of the college, and often as a supply for churches. He has twice visited Europe and the East. Harvard gave him the degree of D. D. in 1857, and Amherst that of LL. D. in 1871. He is the author of "Germania and Agricola of Tacitus with Notes for Colleges " (New York, 1847; enlarged eds., 1852 and 1878) ; " Histories of Taci-