Albemarle County Research Articles

Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born in August, 1853. He never knew the day of the month because the Bible in which it was recorded was taken from his mother's house during the War of 1861-65. His father, John Tyler the tenth President, died when the son was a lad of eight. His mother, who became President Tyler's second wife June 26, 1844, during his term of office, was Julia Gardiner of New York, daughter of David Gardiner, state senator of New York. A lover of genealogy, Lyon Gardiner Tyler was the representative of a distinguished lineage of the North on his mnother's side and of the South on his father's. Julia Gardiner was sixth in descent through her father from the distinguished founder of the Gardiner family of Gardiner's Island and Easthampton, L. I., Lion Gardiner, for whom she named her fifth child. Through her mother, she was third in descent from Lachlan, a Highland chief, killed at Culloden, April 16, 1746. John Tyler had been Governor of Virginia and United States Senator before he became President, and his father, John Tyler, had also been Governor of Virginia. That John's father and grandfather, each named John, had been the one, marshall of the vice admiralty court, and the other, a builder and architect who had helped erect the Governor's Palace, the Powder Magazine, and the two wings of Bruton Church. Among the other ancestors on his father's side, Lvon Tyler counted the families of Armistead, Shields, Marot, Contesse, Anderson, Chiles, Page, Morris. Through his marriage on November 14, 1878, to Anne B. Tucker, daughter of Lt. Colonel St. George Tucker of Albemarle County, and second, on September 12, 1923, to Sue Ruffin, daughter of John A. Ruffin of Charles City County, he allied himself with the Tucker, Gilmer, Randolph, Bland and the Ruffin, Harrison, and other distinguished families. In February, 1870, Lyon Tyler entered the University of Virginia and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1875 and the famous Master's degree in 1876. He later studied Law under Professor John B. Minor. As a student, he was a member of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity and the Jefferson Literary Society. He wrote for the student magazine and in his later years was proud that the committee that awarded to him the Magazine Scholarship in 1876 was composed of Professors Gildersleeve, Mallet, and Venable. He was twice selected by an

Albemarle county, virginia, adopts the executive plan

Albemarle county, virginia, adopts the executive plan

The Standard of Living of Negro Farm Families in Albemarle County, Virginia

The Standard of Living of Negro Farm Families in Albemarle County, Virginia

Qualitative Selection in Cityward Migration

Study of rural-city migration in a sample in Albemarle County, Virginia, representing three social classes-upper, middle, and lower-shows that the upper group sustained decidedly the largest proportionate loss to the cities, the middle group the next heaviest, and the lower group the least. the educational training of the possible migrants among the upper group is strikingly higher than that of the middle and lower groups, which also show a marked difference in this respect. Similarly, those from the upper group, and to a less extent in the middle group, enter mainly the business, professional, and clerical occupations, while the migrants from the lower groups concentrate in occupations calling for unskilled, semi-skilled, and skiller labor. The attitudes of parents in the three groups with regard to their sons' following farming, in considerable measure, parallel the direction of preponderant migration in the particular group.

"The Indian Grave"--A Monacan Site in Albemarle County, Virginia

"The Indian Grave"--A Monacan Site in Albemarle County, Virginia

Immigration Soc. of Albemarle County v. Commonwealth. Supreme Court of Appeals. Sept. 22, 1904. [48 S. E. 509.

Immigration Soc. of Albemarle County v. Commonwealth. Supreme Court of Appeals. Sept. 22, 1904. [48 S. E. 509.

Weathering of Micaceous Gneiss in Albemarle County, Virginia

Introduction. In previous papers the writer has endeavored to show the changes taking place in the preliminary stages of rock-weathering as illustrated in the post-Cretaceous and post-Glacial disintegration of the granites of the District of Columbia and the diabase of Medford, Massachusetts.* The purpose of the present paper is to discuss the results of similar processes, operating for longer periods, and incidentally to refer to other matters with which the subject is closely affiliated. The material selected for investigation is a highly micaceous, feldsparrich gneissoid rock and its residual clay, occurring at North Garden, in Albemarle county, Virginia. The region lies to the west of the Cretaceous submergence, the accumulated gravels of which enabled us to set an approximate time limit to the weathering manifested in the District of Columbia rocks, and thus no criteria are afforded for estimating the relative rapidity of the process. The amount of material lost through leaching and

County School Board of Albemarle County v. A. J. Farrish's Adm'r and Others. Decided at Staunton, September 30, 1895

County School Board of Albemarle County v. A. J. Farrish's Adm'r and Others. Decided at Staunton, September 30, 1895

On a quartz twin from Albemarle County, Virginia

On a quartz twin from Albemarle County, Virginia