. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . an)course which would not exposehim to severe censure and denunciation. In 1813 Mr. T\ler married Letitia Chris-tian, who bore him three sons and threedaughters, and died in Washington in 26, 1844, he contracted a second mar-riage with Miss Julia Gardner, of NewYork. He lived in almost complete retire-ment from politics until February, 1861,when he was a member of the abortive peate convention, held at Washington,and was chosen its President. Soon afterhe renounced his allegiance to the UnitedStates and was elected to the
. Album of history and biography of Meeker County, Minnesota . an)course which would not exposehim to severe censure and denunciation. In 1813 Mr. T\ler married Letitia Chris-tian, who bore him three sons and threedaughters, and died in Washington in 26, 1844, he contracted a second mar-riage with Miss Julia Gardner, of NewYork. He lived in almost complete retire-ment from politics until February, 1861,when he was a member of the abortive peate convention, held at Washington,and was chosen its President. Soon afterhe renounced his allegiance to the UnitedStates and was elected to the ConfederateCongress. He died at Richmond, January17, 1862, after a short illness. Unfortunately for his memory the nameof John Tyler must forever be associatedwith all the misery of that terrible Re-bellion, whose cause he openly is with sorrow that history records thata President of the United States died whiledefending the flag of rebellion, which wasarrayed against the national banner indeadly warfare. 64 PliES/DENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 3^. -L- ©DC^Vi-JOII® •■!-_^_-l- .nir?^5^ ^M^^m^mm^^i^^^^^^^ms!^m^^m^^mm -;■ t4s -I- ....;;::::. J;.^^;;.„. ..^... ;.^±:i^i5,,
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