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JOEL W. TYLER, Cleveland. Joel Walter Tyler was born in Portage county, Ohio, of parents who were among the pioneers of the State. During his boyhood opportunities for education were limited, but with Tyler's fondness for study no opportunity for learning could escape, and early in life he sought the companionship and intimacy of the best educated people within his reach. He was most fortunate in coming early under the influence and instruction of a gentleman of scholarly attainments, who possessed an unusual ability as an instructor. This was the local school teacher and, as he took a great interest in young Tyler, he shaped and guided his work not only while in attendance at his own school, but later when lie entered an academy in the neighborhood. So great was the boy's application to study and so unusual his ability that at the age of ten years he was far in advance of his fellows in all the elementary branches of education. He was especially proficient in arithmetic and could easily solve problems ordinarily considered too intricate for one of his years. The friend referred to, besides being the local school teacher, was also a doctor of medicine and kept young Tyler in the office as much as possible when he was hardly more than ten years old. Then, as leisure would permit, the doctor taught him phyisology, anatomy, natural philosophy and chemistry in promoting his mother's desire that he should become a physician. His mind being essentially of a logical bent he did not care for the practice of medicine, although showing ability as a student. About this time he began the study of Latin, under the instruction of a minister who took an interest in the lad. At about the age of fourteen he came into intimate association with a surveyor by profession and devoted to the study of the natural sciences. This gentleman was a '?W free thinker.'' He took the Boston Investigator, and his library contained such works as Voltaire's writings, Tom Paine's " Age of Reason" and Volney's " Ruins." Such an appreciation did this friend have for the boy's ability and learning that he engaged him when he was but fifteen to take charge of the district school, and gave him a home meanwhile. Here young Tyler had an opportunity to study the sciences, particularly astronomy, and delve in skeptical literature, butoddiy enough he believed in the teachings of Jesus and claimed to be a Christian to his dying day; but never united with a church or subscribed to the creed of any denomination. After closing his school he went to Hudson, Ohio, and entered a preparatory school for Western Reserve College. Here his eyes became affected from study, and he was obliged to give up the full course. He attended the lectures on science delivered to the senior class by those eminent scholars Loomis and St. John, and for six months he hired a person to read to him in mathematics and a Latin grammar while obliged to remain in a darkened room. He began the study of law when about eighteen under Esquire Wheaden at Hudson, with whom he remained over two years, a portion of the time studying at night and teaching during the day. On the advice of Mr. Wheaden he entered the office of Tilden & Ranney, at Ravenna, with whom he remained for a year and a half, when he was admitted to practice. After travelling through Illinois, Wisconsin and Ohio Mr. Tyler finally settled at Garrettsville, Ohio, and entered upon the practice, obtaining in a short time a clientage in Trumbull and Summit counties, as well as Portage. In 1851 lie removed to Kent, then known as Franklin Mills, where he declined a nomination for State Senator. He gave particular attention to the laws governing banking, manufacture and railroads. The mortgage drawn by him in 1851, to secure the payment of ?G4,000,000 in bonds issued by the Franklin & Warren Railroad Company was regarded as a model, and the form has generally been adopted for such instruments. From 1853, until work was suspended in 1858, he was general solicitor of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway, and in the meantime removed to Mansfield, whence in 1858 he went to Warren and formed a partnership with Judge Matthew Birchard. Mr. Tyler was an ardent Republican and participated actively in campaigns. In 1860 he was elected judge of the Probate Court. He did not enter the army on account of his official duties, but used his influence on the stump and elsewhere to secure enlistments, promising to turn over his office to any worthy lawyer who might be wounded in the service. He was re-elected and soon afterwards resigned in favor of Mr. Youmans, a wounded soldier, whose appointment he secured from Governor Brough. In 1865 Mr. Tyler removed to Cleveland to accept the solicitorship of the Atlantic & Great Western Railway. Soon afterwards he formed a partnership with Judge Rufus P. Ranney, who resigned from the Supreme Bench, and the two were associated together as solicitors of the railway company until 1869, when the financial embarrassment of the road culminated in foreclosure and a subsequent receivership. Mr. Tyler was attorney for the receivers. About the same time he became solicitor of the Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling Railroad, and retained the position until his death. Mr. Tyler's active Republicanism brought him into contact with the leaders of the party in Ohio, and among his personal friends were Sherman and Garfield. Mr. Tyler was a man of refined taste and literary culture. Being on intimate terms with Horace Greeley he received a letter of introduction from the latter to Washington Irving, and the presentation of this letter to the popular American author was an incident cherished in his memory. Notes of the interview are published in "Irving's Life and Letters." Mr Tyler was married three times; first to Nancy V. Horr, who lived but a few7 years after marriage and left one son who has since died; second, to Sarah A. McKinney, by whom he had two sons, Charles W., a journalist, residing in New York, and William B, a lawyer, who practiced law with his lather in Cleveland until the latter's death and then removed to New York; third, the widow of James B. Parish, and whose maiden name was Emer I. Waite and who in girlhood had been a pupil of Mr. Tyler.
Marriage to Nancy:
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Marriage to Emer:
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Id#: 0368168
Name: Tyler, Judge Joel Walter
Published Date: September 16, 1894
Source: Source unknown; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #081.
Notes: Tyler- At 1:45 a. m., Friday, September 14, Judge Joel Walter Tyler, aged 72 years. Funeral at St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, cor. Euclid and Case aves., at 1 o'clock p.m. standard time, Sunday Sept. 16.
Name: Tyler, Joel W.
Date: 1894
Source: Cemetery record; Cleveland Necrology File, Reel #081.
Notes: 1822-1894. Lakeview Cemetery Prospect List
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