David Gardiner Tyler
(1846-1927)
BIRTH
1846
PLACE
East Hampton, New York
DEATH
1927
PLACE
Sherwood Forest Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia
FAMILY
FATHER
John Tyler
(1790-1862)
SISTER
Mary Tyler Jones
(1815–1847)
BROTHER
Robert Tyler
(1816-1877)
SISTER
Letitia Tyler Semple
(1821-1907)
SISTER
Elizabeth Tyler Waller
(1823-1850)
SISTER
Ann Contesse Tyler
(1825-1825)
SISTER
Alice Tyler Denison
(1827-1854)
BROTHER
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
(1853-1935)
BROTHER
Robert Fitzwalter Tyler
(1856-1927)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY BOARD OF VISITORS MEMBER, WILLIAMSBURG STATE ASYLUM DIRECTOR
AWARDS
David Gardiner Tyler (1846–1927), eldest son of John Tyler and Julia Gardiner, was a Virginia lawyer, congressman and judge. He left Washington College to serve in the Confederate artillery and surrendered at Appomattox. After studying in Karlsruhe, he returned for a law degree and practiced in Richmond. A Democrat, he served in the U.S. House from 1893 to 1897 and later became a circuit judge. He died at his family’s Sherwood Forest plantation.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of David Gardiner Tyler’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for David Gardiner Tyler is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
David Gardiner Tyler died in 1927, in Sherwood Forest Plantation, Charles City County, Virginia. David Gardiner Tyler, eldest son of John Tyler and Julia Gardiner, was a Virginia lawyer, congressman and judge. He left Washington College to serve in the Confederate artillery and surrendered at Appomattox. After studying in Karlsruhe, he returned for a law degree and practiced in Richmond. A Democrat, he served in the U.S. House from 1893 to 1897 and later became a circuit judge. He died at his family’s Sherwood Forest plantation. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
Harewood Cemetery
Harewood Lane, Nelson County, Virginia, 22967, USA
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