Portrait and biographical records of Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . omplishments. The remainder of his days Mr. Tyler passed mainlyin retirement at his beautiful Jiome,—Sherwood For-est, Charles city Co., Va. A polished gentleman inhis manners, richly furnished with information frombooks and experience in the world, and possessingbrilliant powers of conversation, his family circle wasthe scene of unusual attractions. With suffi
Portrait and biographical records of Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . omplishments. The remainder of his days Mr. Tyler passed mainlyin retirement at his beautiful Jiome,—Sherwood For-est, Charles city Co., Va. A polished gentleman inhis manners, richly furnished with information frombooks and experience in the world, and possessingbrilliant powers of conversation, his family circle wasthe scene of unusual attractions. With sufficientmeans for the exercise of a generous hospitahty, hemight have enjoyed a serene old age with the fewfriends who gathered around him, were it not for thestorms of civil war which his own principles andpolicy had helped to introduce. When the great Rebellion rose, which the State,rights and nullifying doctrines of Mr. John C. Ca\-houn had inaugurated, President Tyler renounced hisallegiance to the United States, and joined the Confed-erates. He was chosen a member of their Congress;and while engaged in active measures to desiroy, byforce of arms, the Government over which he hadonce presided, he was taken sick and soon died,. £lE VENTH-pREBll^E^Tr 59
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