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Ceremonies of the Unveil.
ing of the Monument to
JOHN TYLER,
Tenth President of the United States
HOLLYWOOD CEMETERY
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
OCTOBER 12, 1915

An Account of the Action of the Congress of the United
States in Providing This Monument.
By an act approved March 4, 1911, Congress authorized the erection of a suitable
monument over the grave of the late John Tyler, former President of the United
States, in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Va., and, by an act approved August
24, 1912, an appropriation of $10,000 was made for the purpose, provided that no
part of the amount so appropriated should be expended until the Secretary of War
was satisfied of the existence of a responsible legal association for the care and main-
tenance of the monument, and provided further, that when the said monument was
erected, the responsibility for the care and maintenance of the same should be with
such association, and without expense to the United States. In pursuance of this
law, the Hollywood Cemetery Company agreed to take charge of the Tyler lot in
Hollywood Cemetery as soon as the monument it was proposed to have placed in
the lot was completed, and to keep the lot in perpetual care, having full regard to its
sightly and respectable appearance, as is done in all other lots in said cemetery that
are under the perpetual care of said company, it being understood that the responsi-
bility for the care and maintenance should be without expense to the United States.
The Secretary of War, under date of November 26, 1912, directed the Chief of
Engineers, United States Army, to select an officer of the corps of engineers, United
States Army, to take charge of the construction of the monument, the advertising
for bids and designs, conducting all necessary correspondence regarding design of
monument and the inscriptions, and the disbursing of the appropriation made by
the sundry civil act approved August 24, 1912, for the construction of the monument.
In accordance with the orders of the Secretary of War, the Chief of Engineers,
United States Army, under date of December 10, 1912, designated the district en-
gineer officer at Norfolk, Va., to carry out the instructions given.
On December 16, 1913, competitive designs for the monument were invited by
the Secretary of War, and, as a result of this competition, and on the recommenda-
tion of the Commission of Fine Arts, Washington, D. C., the design submitted by
The T. F. McGann & Sons Company, of Boston, Mass., was accepted.
A contract was entered into with the successful competitors, which was approved
by the Chief of Engineers on June 23, 1914. The erection of the monument was com-
pleted on June 9, 1915.
The following is the sculptor's description of the monument:
“Essentially the monument will consist of a monolithic granite shaft rising from
a granite pedestal, before which will be placed a bronze bust of the President, and
surmounting which will be a bronze finial.
“The bronze finial will be visible from a considerable distance and as it is seen
to consist of a Greek urn supported between the spread wings of two American eagles,
it will indicate at once the burial place of a man of national character. -
“Upon a closer approach an heroic bronze bust of the President will be observed
resting in a dignified manner upon a pedestal of the monolith after the excellent
manner of the ancient Greek sarcophagii.
“On each side of the monolith there will be a bas-relief, the one being a life-sized
figure of the Republic with a shield bearing the seals of the United States and of the
State of Virginia, significant of his relations with the national government and his
native State. The other will be a draped female figure representing memory, hold-
ing in one hand a laurel wreath and cultivating with the other the young tree of the
Republic, which during Tyler's administration began to grow and expand in an
exceptional manner.
“The four faces of the monolith will be panelled as indicated on the model and
especially will the one on the rear be suitable for an inscription.”



CEREMONIES
PARADE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . MAJ. W. McK. Eva Ns, Chief Marshal
Capitol Square to Hollywood
ORDER OF EXERCISES AT THE MONUMENT
HIS ExCELLENCY HENRY C. STUART, Governor of Virginia, Presiding
INVOCATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RT. REVEREND ROBERT A. GIBSON
P. E. Bishop of Virginia
REMARKS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HON. JOHN LAMB
Patron of the Bill in Congress for the erection of the monument
MUSIC–America. . . . . . . . . . . . . . COAST ARTILLERY BAND
Fort Monroe, Va.
ADDRESS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . HON. ARMISTEAD C. GORDON
MUSIC-Auld Lang Syme . . . . . . . COAST ARTILLERY BAND
Fort Monroe, Va.
UNVEILING OF THE MONUMENT ..MRs. WM. MUNFORD ELLIS
Only surviving daughter of President Tyler
PRESIDENTIAL SALUTE . . . . . . . . . RICHMOND HOWITZERS
Music—The Star Spangled Banner. COAST ARTILLERY BAND
- - - -- Fort Monroe, Va.
BENEDICTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rt. REVEREND COLLINS DENNY
Bishop M. E. Church, South

OHN TYLER, Tenth President of the United States, was born in
Charles City county, Virginia, March 29, 1790. His father, John
Tyler, Sr., was one of the most active and prominent patriots of
the American Revolution. He was captain of a militia company,
speaker of the House of Delegates, judge of the State Admiralty and
General Courts, vice-President of the Convention of 1788, Governor,
and at the time of his death was judge of the United States District
Court. As a leading member of the legislature he was instrumental
in securing the passage of the resolution for calling the Annapolis
Convention in 1786; as judge he was one of the earliest to champion
the Over-ruling power of the judiciary, and as Governor he earnestly
favored the cause of education. The “Literary Fund” resulted from
his strong representations to the legislature on the subject. His son,
John Tyler, passed through even a greater stretch of honors. He was
member of the House of Delegates, member of the Executive Council,
member of the House of Representatives, Governor of the State,
senator of the United States, Vice-President, President of the United
States, member of the State Conventions of 1829-30 and 1861, presi-
dent of the Peace Conference, member of the Provisional Congress of
the Confederate States and member-elect at the time of his death of
the Confederate States House of Representatives. This is only an im-
perfect enunciation of his honors. In politics he was a consistent
States rights man and believed that the Union's only escape from civil
war lay in scrupulous regard for the Constitution. Like his father,
he was a strong friend of education, and as Governor favored a system
of public schools. As member of the United States Congress he op-
posed the Missouri compromise, and the other so called National
measures—protective tariff, national bank, and internal improvement
as certain to lead to ill-will among the States and imperil the existence
of the Union. He regarded them as sectional, not really national
II1622.SU11'62S.
He was especially conspicuous in the role of peacemaker in 1833
when he suggested to Clay the principle of the compromise tariff,
and in 1861 when he got up a Peace Conference of delegates from the
States who met in Washington. On the question of slavery, while he
denied the right of Congress to intermeddle with the subject, he looked
to its eventual abolition by peaceable means and strongly opposed
the slave trade. Thus, as chairman of the Senate Committee for the
District of Columbia, he drafted a provision for the abolition of the
slave trade in the District, and as President caused an article to be
inserted in the Treaty of Washington (1842) for the maintenance of a
squadron by the United States and Great Britain respectively for the
suppression of the slave trade off the coast of Africa. As President
he was a strong factor in determining the policies of the country. By
his vetoes he prevented the establishment of a moneyed monopoly
represented in the United States bank, and by his close personal
surveillance of the different departments of the Government abolished
all corruption and reduced the national expenditures one-fourth. He
originated the system of finance known as the exchequer, which in its
essential features is reproduced in the present banking reserve system,
and to him is chiefly due the success of the Treaty of Washington
(1842) settling the northeastern boundary, the right of visitation, and
the suppression of the slave trade, and the annexation of Texas which
measure so greatly extended the confines of the Union and gave to
the United States the virtual monopoly of the cotton plant. He
closed the war with the Seminole Indians, settled the difficulties in
Rhode Island, made the first treaty with China, and vindicated the
Monroe Doctrine as to the Hawaiian Islands.
Mr. Tyler married twice—first Letitia Christian, of New Kent
county, and second Julia Gardiner, of New York, who is buried under
the monument by his side. He had seven children by each marriage.
He died in Richmond, January 18, 1862, and a great public funeral
witnessed the interment of his remains in Hollywood Cemetery. Of
Mr. Tyler's powers as an orator, Jefferson Davis declared that he was
the most eloquent he had heard. Alexander H. Stephens said that
“his State papers compared favorably in ability with those of any of
his predecessors.” And Charles Dickens who saw him at the White
House in 1842 wrote of his interview: “I thought that in his whole
carriage and demeanor he became his station singularly well.”
Committee on Unveiling Ceremonies
HENRY C. STUART
Governor of Virginia
GEORGE AINSLIE
Mayor of Richmond
LIEUT. COL. J. P. JERVEY
United States Army
WM. H. ADAMS
President Board of Alderman
R. L. PETERS
President Common Council
BARTON. H. GRUNDY
Member Board of Aldermen
FRED. H. POWELL
Member Common Council
EDGAR. B. ENGLISH
Member Common Council
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