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Title: Recollections of the Civil War : with many original diary entries and letters written from the seat of war, and with annotated references
Year: 1912 (1910s)

Joseph Gaylord Gessford  (1866–1942)
Description	American photographer
Date of birth/death	1866	17 April 1942
Location of birth/death	Washington, D.C.	Long Branch
Authority file	: Q62423042 VIAF: 75616890 LCCN: n97865299 WorldCat

Subjects: United States. Army. Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, 37th (1862-1865) United States. Army of the Potomac. Corps, 6th (1862-1865) Spotsylvania Court House, Battle of, Va., 1864
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons London : Knickerbocker Press
Contributing Library: Northeastern University, Snell Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Northeastern University, Snell Library

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way Beltingand Hose Company. But he was most active in publicenterprises and benevolences. Instrumental in found-ing the Plainfield Public Library and Reading Room in1880, the second to be founded in the State of NewJersey, he was its President imtil his death; was promoterand first President of the Organized Aid Association ofPlainfield and North Plainfield; was also one of theearly Trustees of the Muhlenberg Hospital; Presidentof the Music Hall Association, and President of theAnti-Racetrack Association of New Jersey. No worthycause of public interest in Plainfield went without hissupport. He was also one of the Trustees of AmherstCollege, 1901-1907. He became a member of the NewYork State Bar Association in 1890. He was also amember of the Society of the Mayflower Descendantsin New York and New Jersey, and Governor of the NewJersey Society; a member of the New Jersey HistoricalSociety, and of the Societies of the Sons of the Revo-lution, Colonial Wars, and Colonial Governors, and a
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MASON W. TYLER IN 1907. From a photograph by Gessford. Biographical Note ix member of the New York Commandery of the MilitaryOrder of the Loyal Legion, and numerous other societiesand clubs. Colonel Tyler married on December 29, 1869, ElizaMargaret Schroeder, of New Milford, Conn., a womanof rare beauty of person and character, with whom helived most happily until her death, only nine monthsbefore his own. She was the daughter of Rev. JohnFrederick Schroeder, D.D., of Trinity Parish, New YorkCity, from 1823 to 1839, who won for himself a reputa-tion of being one of the most learned and able preachersin New York City. Mrs. Tylers grandfather wasElijah Boardman, a Revolutionary soldier and one ofthe early United States Senators from Connecticut.Colonel Tylers sons William S. and Cornelius B. Tylerare both members of the New York Bar. Colonel Tyler died suddenly July 2, 1907, in thePresbyterian Hospital, New York, three weeks afteran operation from which he was supposed to haverecovered.

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