Tyler, Lyon Gardiner, 1853-1935

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler. Educated at the University of Virginia, he was a lawyer, served in the Virginia House of Delegates and served as president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 to 1919.

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife Julia Gardiner Tyler. He was educated at the University of Virginia. He taught at the College of William and Mary and was principal of a school in Tennessee. He practiced law and served in the Virginia House of Delegates. Tyler served as president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 to 1919. He founded the William and Mary Quarterly and Tyler's Quarterly and was the author of the Letters and Times of the Tylers, Parties and Patronage in the United States, England in America and History of Virginia (Vol, II The Federal Period.) He edited Men of Mark in Virginia, Narratives of Early Virginia and the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. He died in 1935.

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Benjamin Stoddert Ewell was born in Georgetown, D. C., 10 June 1810, the son of Thomas Ewell and Elizabeth Stoddert. He graduated from United States Military Academy and taught there. He taught at Hampden- Sydney College and at Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). In 1848, he was elected professor of mathematics and acting president of College of William and Mary and in 1854, became president. He was colonel of 32nd Virginia Infantry Regiment and later assistant adjutant-general to Joseph E. Johnston. He was president of William and Mary 1854-1888 and died 1894. He was the brother of Richard Stoddert Ewell, had another brother, William Stoddert, a sister Elizabeth S. Ewell and a daughter Elizabeth S. Ewell Scott.

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife, Julia Gardiner Tyler. Educated at the University of Virginia, he was a lawyer, several times in the Va. House of Delegates, and served as president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 to 1919.

President of William and Mary College; son of Pres. Tyler.

Lawyer and historian. Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1925, Lyon G. Tyler, Jr. was the son of Lyon G. Tyler, Sr. (1853-1935) and Sue Ruffin, and he was the grandson of President John Tyler (1790-1862). During World War II, Lyon G. Tyler, Jr. was an engineering officer and navigator in the U.S. Navy, serving in the Philippines, Japan, and China. After obtaining a PhD in history at Duke University in 1967, he taught at the University of Richmond and VMI, and later moved to Charleston, S.C., where he became a professor at the Citadel.

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the son of John Tyler (1790-1862) and his second wife Julia Gardiner Tyler. He was educated at the University of Virginia. He taught at the College of William and Mary and was principal of a school in Tennessee. He practiced law and served in the Virginia House of Delegates. Tyler served as president of the College of William and Mary from 1888 to 1919. He founded the William and Mary Quarterly and Tyler's Quarterly and was the author of the Letters and Times of the Tylers, Parties and Patronage in the United States, England in America and History of Virginia in the Federal Period. He edited Men of Mark in Virginia, Narratives of Early Virginia and the Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. He died in 1935.

Mrs. Darling was born in New Hampshire in 1840, a descendant of Henry Adams who settled in Braintree, Massachusetts, in 1636. She married Col. Edward Irving Darling, 22 years her senior, in 1860, and went with him to live at his Louisiana home. He died of wounds received in battle, December 2, 1863. Her only son was Edward Erving Darling, a minor musician-composer, who died July 13, 1894. Mrs. Darling suffered from repeated attacks of malarial fever and, after 1876, from deafness. Her years of widowhood were spent in writing Mrs. Darling's Letters, or Memoirs of the Civil War A Social Diplomat and other books.

From 1889 to 1896 her major interests and efforts were devoted to the founding of women's patriotic societies. Mrs. Darling's obsession for organizing and ruling patriotic societies, and her willingness to abandon one when her opinion or desires were thwarted, is illustrated by the rapid succession with which the societies followed each other: Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) founded October 11, 1890; Daughters of the Revolution (D.R.) founded June 18, 1891; Daughters of the United States of the War of 1812, founded January 8, 1892; founded because of disagreement over policies of the D. A. R., policies adopted over the protest of Mrs. Darling. This collection is composed almost entirely of letters written to her during these years of controversy. There are some delightful, pithy and well-written letters in the group.

George Walter Mapp was born on 25 May 1873 to parents, Dr. John E. Mapp and Margaret Benson (LeCato) Mapp. In 1891, he received a degree of licentiate from the College of William and Mary. This qualified him to teach at the college while studying for a bachelor of arts degree. Upon graduation, he taught at Hagsett Military Academy in Danville, Kentucky. While at Hagsett, he attended classes at Centre College, Kentucky, graduating with a law degree in 1897.

Following graduation Mapp practiced law on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He entered into several partnerships, the first alongside his cousin Otho F. Mears. Upon its dissolution, he formed a partnership with his brother J. Brooks Mapp, which included an associate, Mr. Herbert Barnes.

Mapp served in the Virginia State Senate from 1911 to 1923 representing the thirty- seventh district, which encompassed Accomac, Northampton, and Princess Anne counties. As a Democratic politician, he was a leader in the temperance movement and fought for women's suffrage. Mapp ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1918 and for governor in 1925 and 1929.

In his later years, he served as the chairman of the State Commission of Fisheries and on the Board of Visitors at the College of William and Mary.

G. Walter Mapp married Miss Georgia Richardson Quinby on 10 November 1900. She died within a year. On 9 November 1910, he remarried Miss Mildred Townsend Aydelotte. The couple had two children. Mapp died in 1941.