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RICHARD T. TYLER, Hickman, was born September 28, 1850, in Fulton County, Ky., and is a son of Austin S., and Susan A. (Ashburn) Tyler, both natives of Kentucky. The father was a farmer and died in 1872, aged seventy one years. The mother is still living in Hickman. The father was one of the earliest pioneers, and served as the first sheriff of the county, besides serving in other official capacities, to-wit: county assessor, surveyor, magistrate, and at the time of his death was superintendent of the county schools. Richard Tyler is the youngest of five children, and spent the first twenty years of his life on his father’s farm, and graduated at the Kentucky Military Institute June 8, 1871. He then began reading law under the preceptorship of his brother, H. A. Tyler, and was admitted to the bar in 1872. He succeeded his father as school commissioner and served in that capacity for a period of seven years. He has been in the active practice of his profession since 1878 and is one of the leading attorneys, at the present time being a member of the firm of H. A. & R. T. Tyler, and is a partner in the Hickman Lumber and Manufacturing Company, which was established in 1880, and which is owned at the present time by Tyler Bros. & J. D. Millard, and is the largest manufacturing institution in the Purchase district, representing a yearly business of $500,000, employing about 125 men; manufactures furniture, also deals in rough and dressed lumber. Their building was erected at a cost of $12,000, and they employ several other mills in different parts of the country. The officers of the company are: President, R. T. Tyler; foreman, J. B. Millard; secretary and treasurer, R. E. Millet. Mr. Tyler was married in 1879 to Miss Sallie S., daughter of Peter W. and Lucy A. Mott, by whom he had one son, Allison M. Mrs. Tyler died in 1883 at the age of twenty-six. Mr. Tyler is a member of the K. of H., and a Democrat.