JOHN F. TYLER

 

 

John F. Tyler, presiding judge of the Court of Appeals at San Francisco, is a native Californian, and has been one of the able members of the San Francisco bar for a third of a century.

 

     Judge Tyler was born in San Francisco, December 8, 1864, son of John and Katherine Tyler, being one of their five children.  He has one brother, Russell P., living.  His father came to California in 1850, and is one of the oldest pioneers still living.  During his active life he was engaged in buying and selling real estate.

 

     Judge Tyler was educated at San Francisco, attended the Hastings Law School, and was admitted to the bar in 1889.  He had an extensive private practice and devoted his time to law to the exclusion of politics.  Governor Stephens called him from his private practice to his present office as presiding judge of the Court of Appeals.

 

     Judge Tyler married in 1891 Francis Kasenbery, a native of California. They have two children, Esmund F. and Norman K., stock raisers.  Judge Tyler is a republican.

 

 

Marilyn R. Pankey 5-21-04