Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . lyn t- r T^NTH PRESIDENT. 55. , JDH^^TJlEa. OH\ TYLER, the tenth-identof the United States,was born in Charles-cityCo., Va., March 29,1790. Hewas the favored child of af-fluence and high social po-sition. .\X the early age ofi twelve, John entered WilliamI and Mary College and grad-uated with much honor when1 but seventeen years old. Aftergraduating, he devoted him-self with great assiduity to thestudy of law, partly with hisfather and pirtly with EdmundR
Portrait and biographical record of Iroquois County, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative . lyn t- r T^NTH PRESIDENT. 55. , JDH^^TJlEa. OH\ TYLER, the tenth-identof the United States,was born in Charles-cityCo., Va., March 29,1790. Hewas the favored child of af-fluence and high social po-sition. .\X the early age ofi twelve, John entered WilliamI and Mary College and grad-uated with much honor when1 but seventeen years old. Aftergraduating, he devoted him-self with great assiduity to thestudy of law, partly with hisfather and pirtly with EdmundRandolph, one of the most distin-guished lawyers of Virginia. At nineteen years of age, necommenced the practice of success was rapid and aston-ishing. It is said that threemonths had not elapsed ere therewas scarcely a case on the dock-I et of the court in which he was retained. When but twenty-one years of age, hewas almost unanimously ejected to a seat in the StateLegislature. He connected himself with the Demo-cratic party, and warmly advocated the measures ofJeflTerson and Madison. For five successive years hewas elected to the Legislature, receiv
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