Posted on 03/12/2009 4:02:58 AM PDT by Keltik
As a boy, Harrison Tyler (chemical engineering '51) never gave much thought to his grandfather, John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States. "I grew up during World War II," he told Subaru Drive Magazine in 2002, "and surviving the war and the shortages was what was on everybody's mind. Being related to a president was never a thought."
Such a view may seem astonishing, but President Tyler died in 1862, 66 years before his grandson was born. In fact, Harrison Tyler's father, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, was born in 1853 and died in 1935, so there were very few first-hand accounts of the president to inspire Harrison.
(Excerpt) Read more at vtmagazine.vt.edu ...
Think about that. We are only two lifetimes away from The Crimean War, Commodore Perry in Japan, The Dred Scott Decision, John Brown at Harper's Ferry, and Fort Sumter.
Kinda amazing...
Thank you for sharing this wonderful article.
My great-grandmother told me a story of the time when she went to a theater in New Orleans. After she sat down, a great commotion arose as everyone stood up and started clpping and bowing. She saw that General Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard had entered the theater and everyone was paying respect.
For those who are recent victims of government schools, P.G.T. Beauregard was a famous Confederate general. He captured Ft. Sumter and helped win First Manassas.
Good thing thing they didn’t have the H1-B program then, he would have been in/outsourced. LOL.
Please don’t ping me again.
My grandmother lived with us all the time I was growing up. She was born in 1888 in Indian Territory. She was there in Purcell - the then capital, when Oklahoma became a state. She thought that the musical was her life except too racy. Her father (Papa) who road in the Cherokee Strip Land Rush was too young during the Civil War to serve but all four of his brothers were in the Confederate Army.
In case there are lurkers looking for restitution, a great grandfather on the other side of the family fought for the Union.
Anyway, my point is - I come from pioneer stock and I’m an old and recovering hippy so I can go back to the land if I have to.
A friend of mine met this man not too long ago. She was just telling me about it the other day.
My Great-grandmother was 30 years old when the Wright Brothers made their first flight and she was still alive to witness the Apollo moon landing. Hell, I’m only 52 but there were only 48 states when I was born. Not the 57 we currently have. ;-)
“...When Tyler and Simmons founded the company, they had three goals: “sell a product that works, hire good employees, and take care of those employees...”
The thing is, in nearly every case, Business Corruption happens BECAUSE those companies are on the Gov’t dole, or are gaming a Gov’t controlled system. The list is endless - Lockheed and Govt Defense, Enron and California Energy “deregulation”, Wall St. and mortgages, etc....
“Tippecanoe and Tyler too”, “Log Cabins and Hard Cider”, much better than “Yes we can”.
You're only a year older than me and my great grandfather was wounded at Second Manassas.
One of my great-grandmothers held me before she died. In turn, she had sat in Robert E. Lee’s lap!
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When I was five, in 1958, a big car pulled up next to ours. A lady in a big hat was in the back seat. We waved at each other. My mother said, “That’s Mrs. Longworth.” Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Wow, Arthur, that is really something to remember!
My maternal grandfather, who died in 1999 at the age of 99, not only lived through the Wright Brothers, he homesteaded in North Dakota.
My dad enlisted in the Army in 1936. At that time, Ft. Snelling still had horse cavalry and paid him in silver dollars each month (that’s how behind we were at the time of Pearl Harbaor).
My great-grandma was born in 1899, I owe her for my love of history. She used to tell me about the first time she ever saw an automobile, and the day they got indoor plumbing and their first electric lights, and the first airplanes and WWI, the flu and the year skirts went above the knee, the movies and Broadway, the Depression, WW2, etc. I was around 12 years old when she was telling me “I was your age just yesterday. Yesterday!”
It flies by, that’s for sure. She was 97 when she moved on. Still had her sense of wonder at it all.
My advice to all, if you don’t have a really old person to talk to, you should go and borrow someone else’s...right away!
I prefer to think of Harrison Tyler as the great-grandson of David Gardiner than the grandson of that hypocritical secessionist Tyler. And its not just because I used to know East Hampton Gardiners.
THanks for the interesting post.
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