Background
Job R. Tyson on February 8, 1803 was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Joseph and Ann (Trump) Tyson and a descendant of Reynier Tyson who settled in what is now Germantown, Pa.
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A Discourse before the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennslyvania: delivered October 24, 1834, in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia
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Discourse on history
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The social and intellectual state of the Colony of Pennsylvania, prior to the year 1743. Read before the American Philosophical Society.
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Speech of Hon. J. R. Tyson, of Pennsylvania, on the fugitive slave laws and compromise measures of 1850; delivered in the House of representatives, February 28, 1857
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Address at the First Annual Commencement of the Pennsylvania Female College, 1854 (Classic Reprint)
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Job Roberts Tyson
Edit ProfileEducation
He completed preparatory studies and taught school in Hamburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law.
Career
In 1827 he was admitted to the bar.
He was vice-provost of the Philadelphia Law Academy, 1833-58; a solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1847-55; an early director of the Philadelphia public schools; a member of the Select Council of Philadelphia, 1846-49; and a Whig congressman for one inconspicuous term, 1855-57.
He was an effective writer and an excellent speaker; a score or more of his speeches were printed.
He was a manager of the Apprentices' Library in Philadelphia, and a trustee of Girard College and of the Pennsylvania Female College.
His greatest interest was history.
He was among the first to grasp the importance of intensive study of Pennsylvania history. The Indians, the Revolution, the social and intellectual state of Penn's colony, the life of William Penn, the history of art in America, were objects of his study.
In his Discourse on the Colonial History of the Eastern and Some of the Southern States (1842), also published in Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (vol. IV, pt. 2, 1850), he attacked New England historians for their claims, denying that enlarged social freedom owed its existence to the Puritans and maintaining rather that it triumphed in spite of their hostility, and that Penn's contribution to liberty was more significant. This paper marks him as a pioneer in readjusting the balance of historical interpretation.
The most tangible results of his historical interest are the first volumes of the printed archives of Pennsylvania.
As a member of a joint committee of the Philosophical and Historical societies he was instrumental in petitioning the legislature (1836) to provide for the printing of the archives, and his brother, J. Washington Tyson, as chairman of a committee of the legislature, reported favorably upon the project. Thus a beginning was made with three volumes (1838 - 40) containing the minutes of the Provincial Council, and the series has been continued intermittently ever since.
Tyson planned to write a history of the state, but died before he could make systematic use of his collected material.
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Address at the First Annual Commencement of the Pennsylvania Female College, 1854 (Classic Reprint)
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Discourse on history
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Speech of Hon. J. R. Tyson, of Pennsylvania, on the fugitive slave laws and compromise measures of 1850; delivered in the House of representatives, February 28, 1857
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The social and intellectual state of the Colony of Pennsylvania, prior to the year 1743. Read before the American Philosophical Society.
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A Discourse before the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennslyvania: delivered October 24, 1834, in St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia
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A Brief Survey of the Great Extent and Evil Tendencies of the Lottery System
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Address at the First Annual Commencement of the Pennsylvania Female College, 1854 (Classic Reprint)
Politics
Tyson was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress.
Participating actively in the reforms of the thirties, he was a friend of temperance and a foe of lotteries. He hoped to solve the slavery problem by colonization, served in the ranks of the Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, and drafted a report on the impropriety of capital punishment.
Membership
On January 15, 1836, he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
He was one of the early members of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and an officer from 1829 to 1848.
He was a member of a joint committee of the Philosophical and Historical societies.
Connections
On October 4, 1832, he married Eleanor, daughter of Thomas P. Cope, a prominent Philadelphia merchant and philanthropist.
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Whig