California Biographies

JOHN F. TYLER

Submitted by: Marilyn R. Pankey 5-21-04

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	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.
 
Source: "The San Francisco Bay Region" by Bailey Millard Vol. 3 page 202. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc. 1924.