Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1880-09-17
Judge u. q. Tyler.

Benjamin Owen Tyler, eldest son of Ephra-
i'm Tyler, was born in Wilmington, Sept. 7,
1870, removed with his fathers family TO
Guilfori in the spring of 1910, and subse-
quently acquired an academical education at
the Brattleboro Academy. He studied law
with Hon. o. l.. Shafter ut Wilmington and
Hon. H. L. Dawes at North Adams Mass.
was admitted to the Bar and settled in Win
chendon, Mass, in 1915, where he re-
manned in excellent practice for ten years.
On account OF the failing health of his wife,
daughter of Rufus Mather of Marlboro, he
sought a milder climate and moved to Tren-
ton, New jersey, where he has resided for
nearly twenty-five years, engaged i'll the
practice of his prof ossion, though mainly in
connection with insurance companies, hav-
ing been for many years past general agent
and attorney for the Royal Fire Insurance
Company of London. He was for five years
a judge in the Court of Common Pleas of
Mercer county, his term expiring in the
spring of 1879. He was man of fine abili-
ties, of perfect integrity, strongly attached to
the friends and scenes Of his boyhood. and of
that social aud kindly disposition which pc
culiarly endeared him to his own family and
relatives and readily won him friends wherev-
or he went. His second wife, daughter of
Dea, 5. s. Wright of Shelbune Falls and
two children survive him. He had been in
apparent good health until the morning of
his death. We with pleasure copy the fol-
lowing from the Daily State Gazette of Tren-
ton:
The funeral of the late Judge b. o. Tyler
took place from his old home in Guilford,
Vt, on Sunday last. The exercises on that
occasion were conducted by his pastor, the
Rev Samuel NJ. Studdiford, of this city, who,
on receipt of the sad intelligence of the
Judges death, accompanied Mrs. Tyler and
the children to Vermont A large circle of
friends assembled at the old homestead to
pay their last tribute of respect to his men,
DRY, and the deep feeling manifested showed
how much the Judge was beloved by the
friends of his youth. He was one of a fam
lily of seven, five brothers and two sisters, -
all highly respected for their sterling qualities
of mind and heart.
1t may be of interest to the many friends
of Judge Tyler to know that post mortem
examination revealed the fact that his death
had been caused by a clot which had entire
ly stopped the main artery supplying the
heart, and which was caused by disease
known as fatty degeneration of the heart 4"
Early in the morning of the day of his death
he complained of great pain in his chest
and though different remedies were resorted
to, he experienced but little relief At half
past ten his sister, who had been tenderly
caring for him, noticed sudden change in
his appearance and breathing, and in less
than three minutes he was dead
Judge Tyler was a very useful man among
us, and his loss will be deeply felt in this
community, and especially by the members of
the Third church. He was one of the trus-
tees of that church. and in the re-erection of
the church edifce was on the building com
mittee and did most efficient service. The
Judge was buried in the beautiful cemetery on
the banks of the Connecticut, in Brattleboro,
Vt, where others of his family are buried.