San
Bernardino County
Biographies
EMERY B. TYLER
The name of Emery B. Tyler is well
known in professional circles of San Bernardino, his native city, by reason of
his legal attainments and broad experience as an attorney and counselor. He was born February 14, 1868, a son of Uriah
U. Tyler, who was a native of New York state and left home at the age of
eighteen years. Coming to San Bernardino
as a pioneer of 1852, the father was one of the first mail carriers in this
part of the state. On one of his trips
he left Los Angeles with the mail, driving a yoke of steers attached to the
running gear of a wagon, and at El Monte met several passengers who were
awaiting the stage to San Bernardino.
Although not overjoyed at the idea of making the journey on the wagon
reach, it was either that or wait indefinitely for
other transportation, so they took the trip, negotiating the distance
successfully but not comfortably. Uriah
U. Tyler afterward engaged in ranching in various parts of California,
following agricultural pursuits in this state until his death in 1883. As a young man he had married Rachel M.
Moore, who was born in Illinois and is also deceased. They had a family of seven children, of whom
four survive.
After attending San Bernardino
Academy, Emery B. Tyler enrolled as a student in the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor, where he received the degree of LL. B. in 1891, and passed an
examination before the Supreme Court of that state. He was also admitted to the bar of California
and began practice in San Bernardino.
Leaving the city in 1900, he went to Alaska and practiced in that
country until his removal to Portland, Oregon, where he also had a law office
for a time. While in the far north he
became identified with mining operations and is still financially interested in
gold mining claims in California. Since
1923 he has followed his profession continuously in San Bernardino, limiting
his practice to civil law, and is at his best in handling litigation of that
nature. He enjoys a large clientele and
shares a suite of offices in the Andreson Building with R. E. Hodge, P. N. MacCloskey, W. D. Evans and William Guthrie. Mr. Tyler stands high as a lawyer and as a
citizen. His professional affiliations
are with the San Bernardino County Bar Association and the California State Bar
Association. In 1888 he became a charter
member of Arrowhead Parlor, Native Sons of the Golden West. He is a member of Lodge No. 178, F. & A.
M., and is identified with the York Rite bodies as well as with Al Malaikah
Temple of the Mystic Shrine in Los Angeles.
Transcribed by
V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 285-286, Clarke Publ.,
Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V. Gerald Iaquinta.
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