Tyler, Joseph D

Tyler, Joseph D.

a clergyman and instructor of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was born at Brattleborough, Vt. He graduated at Yale in 1829, and pursued a theological course at Alexandria, Va. His organs of hearing having become impaired by disease, he became connected with the Deaf-and-Dumb Asylum at Hartford, Conn., and subsequently became principal of the Deaf- and-Dumb Institution of Virginia. He died at Staunton,Va., Jan. 28, 1852. He was an excellent scholar, and made some graceful contributions to the literature of the day. See Amer. Quar. Church Rev. 1852, p. 142.