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R. B. TYLER, M. D., physician and surgeon, was born in Westmorland county, Va., March 12, 1854. His father, Walter Tyler, was a son of President John Tyler, and was born in May, 1814. He was a graduate of William and Mary’s College, Richmond, Va.; also of the medical department of Dartmouth College. He died Dec. 19, 1875. His mother, Julia (Grimshaw) Tyler, was also a native of Virginia. When about seven years of age our subject was sent to Washington, D. C, where for three years he attended a private school under the direction of Miss Mary Jemison. Returning home, he remained one year, and then went to Binghamton, N. Y., and entered the Binghamton Academy, under Prof. Thomas Fosburg; continued there three years, and then engaged as principal of the Franklinville (N. Y.) schools; taught two years, and then accepted the position of assistant principal of the Rushford (N. Y.) Academy; held that position two years, until in the fall of 1867, when he entered Hamilton College, Clinton, N. Y., graduating from that institution in June, 1870, and receiving the degree of B. A. He returned to Franklinville and was chosen professor of mathematics and the Greek and Latin languages in the Franklinville Academy; taught one year, and then was elected principal of the Canisteo Academy, Steuben county, same state, and had charge of that institution three years; resigned the principalship in that school and engaged for one year as teacher in the Riverside Seminary. In April, 1875, he went into the office of Dr. H. H. Nye, of Wellsville, N. Y., and commenced the study of medicine; continued two years, and then engaged in the practice one year. In the fall of 1878 he entered the Buffalo Medical College and took one course; then returned to Wellsville and engaged in practice for eighteen months with his former preceptor; remained there until November, 1881, then came west and accepted a professorship in the Joplin College of Physicians and Surgeons, lecturing on the diseases of women and children. In October, 1882, he was elected to the chair of Anatomy and Minor Surgery in the same institution. On Jan. 2, 1883, he was elected city physician, and now holds that position. Dr. Tyler was married in this city, April 4, 1883, to Miss S. Maggie, daughter of Thomas and Sarah (Mills) Heathwood, of Joplin, but formerly of Boston, Mass. Mrs. Tyler is a graduate of the Conservatory of Music at Boston; she is a member of the Episcopal Church. The doctor is now having a large, increasing, and remunerative practice.