The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . emphis, Mr. Tyler was head of ahigh school for four years. Atthe end of that time he returnedto Virginia, and in September,1883, settled in Richmond, wherehe entered on t
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . emphis, Mr. Tyler was head of ahigh school for four years. Atthe end of that time he returnedto Virginia, and in September,1883, settled in Richmond, wherehe entered on the practice of thelaw, and took an active part inpolitics. In 1887 he was electeda member of the house of dele-gates, and among other impor-tant measures was patron in thatbody of the bill which proposed, .„ , ^^,^^^as we have seen, to appropriate f/^ * ^annually the sum of $10,000 to ?^^^^^^ ^• the support of William and Mary <: ~-— ,_ college. He had the satisfaction ^ of seeing the bill made a law,and in August, 1888, was elected president of thecollege under the new organization. Though somehad their doubts of the success of the institution, fromwhich the current of patronage had been long di-verted, the result speedily vindicated the action ofthe legislature. The new faculty consisted of LyonG. Tyler, president, and professor of moral science,political economy, and civil government; J. Leslie. 238 THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA Hall (late fellow of Jolms Hopkius university) pro-fessor of English language and history ; T. J. Stubbs,, professor of mathematics ; Lyman B. Whar-ton, , , professor of ancient and modernlanguages; Van F. Garrett, , professor ofnatural science ; and Hugh S. Bird, , professorof pedagogics. The attendance of the college, sincethe revival, has proved the largest in the annals ofthe institution—the number rising in 1891-92 to legislature at the session of 1891-92 was inducedby President Tyler to increase the appropriat
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