TYLER, Moses Coit, educator, born in Griswold, Connecticut, 2 August, 1835. He was graduated at Yale in 1857, studied theology there and at Andover, and was pastor of the 1st Congregational church, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1860-'2. He was professor of the English language and literature in the University of Michigan in 1867-'81, and since that time has occupied the chair of American history in Cornell university. He was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church in St. Andrew's, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 16 October, 1881, by Bishop Harris, and priest in St. John's, Ithaca, New York, in 1883, by Bishop Coxe. In 1873-'4 he was literary editor of "The Christian Union" in New York, and he has contributed to reviews and magazines. He received the degree of LL.D. from Wooster university in 1875, and that of L. H. D. from Columbia in 1888. Professor Tyler has published " Brawnville Papers" (Boston, 1868) ; "History of American Literature" (first 2 vols., New York, 1878) ; " Manual of English Literature" (1879) ; and "Life of Patrick Henry" (Boston, 1888).