The recent death of President John Tyler’s grandchild reminds us that the past seems distant but it’s closer than it appears, former history instructor Michael G. Bazemore, Jr. writes i… ...

Lyon Tyler was an eminent figure also, serving as president of William and Mary. Harrison Tyler had children and grandchildren, so the line continues; but clearly an interesting chapter in history ...

The birth of President John Tyler and the death his grandson, Harrison Tyler, were separated by only 235 years.

Harrison Ruffin Tyler, whose family connections to early America were separated by just two generations as grandson of President John Tyler, who served in the 1840s and was born in 1790 during ...