Background
Tyson, Job Roberts was born on February 8, 1803 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph and Ann (Trump) Tyson.
Tyson, Job Roberts was born on February 8, 1803 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Joseph and Ann (Trump) Tyson.
He completed preparatory studies and taught school in Hamburg, Pennsylvania.
Teacher, Hamburg, Pennsylvania. Admitted to Pennsylvania bar, 1827. Vice provost Philadelphia Law Academy, 1833-1858.
Solicitor Pennsylvania Railroad, 1847-1855.
Member Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Director Philadelphia Public Schools.
Member Select Council of Philadelphia, 1846-1849. Member United States House of Representatives (Whig) from Pennsylvania, 34th Congress, 1855-1857.
Member Society for Alleviating Miseries of Public Prisons, drafted report against capital punishment.
Manager Apprentices Library, Philadelphia. Trustee Girard College, Pennsylvania Female College. Became member American Philosophical Society, 1836.
Early member History Society Pennsylvania, officer, 1829-1848.
Member joint committee of philosophical and history societies instrumental in petitioning Pennsylvania Legislature to provide for printing Pennsylvania archives, 1836. Author: Essay on the Penal Laws of Pennsylvania, 1827.
The Lottery System of the United States, 1833. Discourse … on the Colonial History of the Eastern and Some of the Southern States, 1842.
Social and Intellectual State of the Colony of Pennsylvania Prior to 1743, 1843.
Discourse on the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of William Penn, 1844. Letters on the Resources and Hall, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1858. Commerce of Philadelphia, 1852.
Member Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Member Select Council of Philadelphia, 1846-1849. Member United States House of Representatives (Whig) from Pennsylvania, 34th Congress, 1855-1857.
Member Society for Alleviating Miseries of Public Prisons, drafted report against capital punishment.
Member joint committee of philosophical and history societies instrumental in petitioning Pennsylvania Legislature to provide for printing Pennsylvania archives, 1836.
Married Eleanor Cope, October 4, 1832.