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| Name | Sharon Tyndale |
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Springfield, Illinois , United States |
| Email | None |
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January 19, 1816
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| Died | April 29, 1871
(55 years)
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| Contributor | ev |
| Last Modifed | ev
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| Info | TYNDALE, Sharon, Secretary of State, born in Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 19, 1816;
at the age of 17 came to Belleville, Ill., and was engaged for a time in mercantile business, later being employed in a surveyor’s corps under the internal improvement system of 1837.
Having married in 1839, he returned soon after to Philadelphia, where he engaged in mercantile business with his father; then came to Illinois, a second time, in 1845, spending a year or two in business at Peoria. About 1847 he returned to Bellville and entered upon a course of mathematical study, with a view to fitting himself more thoroughly for the profession of a civil engineer.
In 1851 he graduated in engineering at Cambridge, Mass., after which he was employed for a time on the Sunbury & Erie
Railroad, and later on certain Illinois railroads.
In 1857 he was elected County Surveyor of St. Clair County, and in 1861, by appointment of President Lincoln, became Postmaster of the city of Belleville. He held this position until 1864, when he received the Republican nomination for Secretary of State and was elected, remaining in office four years.
He was an earnest advocate, and virtually author, of the first act for the registration of voters in Illinois, passed at the session of 1865.
After retiring from office in 1869, he continued to reside in Springfield, and was employed for a time in the survey of
Gilman, Clinton and Springfield Railway– now the Springfield Division of the Illinois Central.
At an early hour on the morning of April 29, 1871, while
going from his home to the railroad station at Springfield, to take the train for St. Louis, he was assassinated upon the street by shooting, as supposed for the purpose of robbery – his dead body being found a few hours later at the scene of the tragedy.
Mr. Tyndale was a brother of Gen. Hector Tyndale of
Pennsylvania, who won a high reputation by his services during the war.
His second wife, who survived him, was a daughter of Shadrach Penn, an editor of considerable reputation who was the contemporary and rival of George D. Prentice at Louisville, for some years.
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