Tyler
Tyler names 5 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Tyler an American entomologist and biologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
an American entomologist and biologist, born in Oberlin, Ohio, in 1863. He studied at the Columbian (now George Washington) University in Washington, D. C., at the School of Medicine, entomologist in then became assistant the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1891 he became professor of entomology and zoölogy at the Agricultural College of New Mexico and the state experiment station. In 1909 he became permanent director of the entomological stations of the United States, and, in 1914, entomological assistant in the Bureau of Entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture. Since chief entomologist of 1919 he has been the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil. TOWNSEND, EDWARD WATER- MAN, an American author; born in Cleveland, O., Feb. 10, 1855. His stories and sketches, first printed in the daily journals, were collected under the titles: "Chimmie Fadden, Major Max, and Other Stories"; "Chimmie Fadden Explains, Major Max Expounds"; "A Daughter of the Tenements"; "Near a Whole City Full." In collaboration he wrote several of plays: "Chimmie Fadden"; "Daughter the Tenements"; "The Marquis of Michigan," "Beaver Creek Farm” (1907); "The Climbing Courvatells" (1909). TOWNSEND, GEORGE ALFRED, pseudonym GATH, an American war cor respondent; born in Georgetown, Del., Jan. 30, 1841. He became a journalist in 1860; was special correspondent for the New York "Herald" and New York "World" in 1860-1864; afterward public lecturer, and war correspondent in the Austro-Prussian War (1866). His publications in book form are: "Campaigns of a Non-Combatant" (1865); "Life of Garibaldi" 1867); "Life of Abraham Lincoln" (1867); "The New World and the Old"; "Poems" (1870); "Washington Outside and Inside" (1871); "Bohemian Days" (1881); "The Entailed Hat" (1884), and "Katy of Catoctin; or, The Chain-Breakers" (1886), novels; "Life of Levi P. Morton" (1888); "Tales of Gapland"; etc. TOWNSEND, CHARLES, SECOND VISCOUNT, an English statesman; born in Rainham, Norfolk, March 10, 1674; succeeded to the peerage December, 1687, and took his seat as a Whig in the House of Peers, 1695. After acting as a commissioner for arranging the Scotch Union (1706), he was joint plenipotentiary with Marlborough in the conference at Gertruydenburg (1709), and then, as ambassador to the States-General, signed the Barrier Treaty. For this he was censured by the House of Commons, and declared an enemy to the queen and kingdom. He thereupon entered into communication with the Elector of Hanover, who, on his accession as George I., appointed Townshend secretary of state, 1714. In 1717 he became lord-lieutenant of Ireland; and he was again secretary of state from February, 1721, to May, 1730, when he retired on account of differences with his brother-in-law and colleague, Sir Robert Walpole. He died in Rainham, June 21, 1738.
Tyler JOHN, an American statesman
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an American statesman, 10th President of the United States; born in Charles City co., Va., March 29, 1790. His father was an officer in the army during the Revolution, and a judge of the Federal Court of Admiralty. Tyler was graduated at William and Mary College, in 1807, when but 17, and was admitted to the bar in 1809. At the age of 21 he was elected to the Virginia legislature; and in 1816, at the age of 26, was elected to Congress. In 1825 he was elected governor of Virginia, and in 1827 Senator of the United States. He sustained the States' Rights policy in Congress, voted against the so-called Force Bill empowering President Jackson to enforce the revenue laws in South Carolina, and for the resolutions censuring Jackson for removing the government funds to State banks. When in 1836, the Virginia legislature instructed to vote for the expunging of this censure, he resigned his seat in the Senate. In 1839 he was elected to the Virginia legislature, and in 1840 was elected Viceon the Whig ticket with President William H. Harrison. On April 4, just one month after entering on the duties of his office, President Harrison died, and Tyler became President by succession. He at once came into conflict with Congress by vetoing financial bills that he believed to be in violation of the Constitution. His cabinet, except Daniel Webster, resigned, and their places were filled by States' Rights Whigs. The most important acts of his administration were a treaty with China and the annexation of Texas (1845). At the expiration of his term he retired to private life, till 1861, when he was made president of a peace convention. Failing in his efforts to effect a compromise, he joined the Confederacy, and served in the Confederate Congress till his death in Richmond, Va., Jan. 18, 1862.
Tyler MOSES COIT, an American historian
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
MOSES COIT, an American historian; born in Griswold, Conn., Aug. hist 2, 1835; was graduated at Yale University in 1857; later studied theology; ornal Church in dained in the Congregational 1859; pastor of the First Congregational Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in 1860- 1862; Professor of English Literature in Michigan University in 1867-1872 and in 1874-1881; literary editor of the "Christian Union" in 1872-1874. He became Professor of American History in Cornell University in 1881; was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1881, and priest two years later. He was author of "History of American Literature During the Colonial Period"; "Glimpses of England"; "The Brannville Papers"; "The Literary History of the American Revolution" olution"; "Life of Patrick Henry"; "Three Men of Letters"; and "Manual of English Literature." He died in Ithaca, N. Y., Dec. 28, 1900.
Tyler ROYALL, American an author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROYALL, American an author; born in Boston, Mass., July 18, 1757. In 1794 he was judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont, and in 1800 its Chief Justice. He wrote the first American play to be acted by regular comedians: "The Contrast," produced in 1786 at New York. He also wrote "May- Day: A Comedy" (1787); "The Georgia Spec.; or, Land in the Moon" (1797); "The Algerine Captive" (1799); "Moral Tales for American Youths"; "The Yankee in London"; and contributed many sketches, verses, and essays to various journals and magazines. He died in Brattleboro, Vt., Aug. 16, 1826.
Tyler a city and county-seat of Smith co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city and county-seat of Smith co., Tex.; on the St. Louis Southwestern and the International and Great Northern railroads. It contains Tyler College, a court house, public library, the Charnwood Institute, numerous churches, National banks, and a number of daily, weekly, and monthly periodicals. It has fruit-tree nurseries, canning factories, cotton compress, iron rolling mills, and tile and pottery works. Pop. (1910) 10,400; (1920) 12,085.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921 it treated John Tyler's ascent to the presidency as a matter of practice rather than law: Harrison died and "Tyler became President by succession." That improvised precedent, which Tyler forced through by insisting he was President and not merely acting President, was only written into the Constitution in 1967 with the 25th Amendment. Tyler's standing has otherwise shifted little except in emphasis: modern accounts dwell far more than Collier's does on his enslaving of hundreds of people at Sherwood Forest and on his 1861 defection to the Confederacy, which is why he remains the only President whose death Washington did not officially mourn. Of the other men crowded onto this page, the entomologist born at Oberlin in 1863 is C. H. T. Townsend, who stayed in Brazil and died there in 1944, having described several thousand species of tachinid flies "" a body of work still consulted, and still being untangled, by dipterists today.
Written for this edition, 2026.