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cipal, Elizabeth Sedgwick ; Boston had a promi- 

 nent lawyer, a graduate of Harvard, William Minot ; 

 St. Louis had a leading lawyer, William D. Sedg- 

 wick ; Antietam had in the list of killed the gallant 

 Major Sedgwick; San Francisco recorded among 

 her distinguished sons the long-time superintendent 

 of the Pacific mail steamship company ; the United 

 States navy counted as one of her able officers a sur- 

 geon, Dr. George Hopkins; Amherst had as her 

 most famous instructor Professor W. S. Tyler, D. D., 

 LL. D., at the head of the Greek department for 

 half a century; she also has the present brilliant 

 professor of biology, John M. Tyler ; Sheridan had 

 as a brilliant colonel in the grand ride of the Shen- 

 andoah Colonel M. W. Tyler; invention claims the 

 discoverer of the Turbine wheel, W. W. Tyler ; 

 Knox College has claimed as a leader at one time, 

 as has Smith at another, Professor Henry H. Tyler. 

 A detailed study of the family of the eldest eon is 

 suggestive. He was the sixth child, born in North- 

 ampton, 1738, when the father was thirty-five and 

 the mother twenty-eight. He was but twenty years 

 old when the father and mother died and the care 

 of the family devolved upon him. He had gradu- 

 ated from Princeton the previous year but the 

 responsibility of a large family prevented his enter- 

 ing upon professional life. Two years after the 

 death of his father he married and removed to 

 Elizabethtown, N. J., where he resided for ten years. 

 In 1770 he returned to Stockbridge, Mass. Berk- 

 shire county was still on the frontier and was 



