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And this encouragement did not ftiil him. For his sweet and attrac- 

 tive countenance, his modest demeanor, his gentle nature, and a native 

 refinement which art can but poorly imitate, enlisted the good-will of 

 all with whom he was associated. Science is the gainer when she 

 claims him as one of her own children. 



JOHN E. TYLER. 



TVe have to record the death of still another of our associates by 

 that disease which has of late proved so fatal to professional and sci- 

 entific men. Dr. Tyler died with pneumonia on the 9th of March 

 last, after a very brief illness. He was born in Boston, Dec. 9, 1819, 

 and was the second son of John E. and Hannah Parkman Tyler, of 

 Westborough, Mass. His fiither, a graduate of Harvard in 1786, was 

 educated a physician, but afterwards became engaged in business in 

 Boston. Dr. Tyler was himself early destined to a mercantile life, 

 and developed an aptitude for business which was of much service to 

 him in the executive offices he was called to fill in later life. His 

 preliminary education was begun in Westborough, and continued in 

 Leicester and Phillips (Andover) Academies. He entered the Freshman 

 Class of Dartmouth College in 1-838, and graduated in due course and 

 with high honors in 1842. Here Tyler gave evidence of that ready 

 wit and humor which was always a conspicuous element in his nature, 

 and which, added to brilliant scholarship, gave him an immense popu- 

 larity in his class. He was foremost in all athletic games and sports. 

 He was a fine musician, a singer, and an adept upon several instru- 

 ments. He was also a good writer and an easy and graceful speaker. 

 He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa and Psi Upsilon Chapters, 

 and president of the United Fraternity, one of the two leading literary 

 societies of the college. 



Almost immediately after his graduation from college, he went to 

 Newport, R. L, where he entered upon the study of his chosen pro- 

 fession under the guidance of the late Dr. Dunn of that city. He 

 subsequently attended a course of medical lectures at Hanover, and 

 two sessions at the medical department of the University of Penn, in 

 Philadelphia, at which latter institution he graduated in the spring of 

 1846. He also received a medical diploma at Hanover. 



Dr. Tyler first entered upon the practice of his profession at 

 Salmon Falls in New Hampshire. While there, he was sent to the 

 State Legislature, and was soon called to take charge of the New 

 Hampshire Asylum for the Insane at Concord, where he remained till 



