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Seaview Hospital and the Farm Colony. Willowbrook State School. In May of that year, he negotiated the purchase of several tracts of mixed residential and farm land located on a small hill west of Nashville. Bishop McTyeire served as president of the Board of Trust for life as part of the conditions stipulated by Cornelius Vanderbilt. He immediately began to shape the character of the campus through a massive tree-planting campaign.

All around Old Main the only academic building on campus at that time , McTyeire supervised the planting of hundreds of small trees.

In a letter dated November 24, , he reported to Vanderbilt that he had trees planted around the grounds that month. He was buried alongside two other Methodist Bishops, William McKendree and Joshua Soule, whose bodies he had caused to be reinterred to the campus in McKendree and Soule were pioneers of early Methodism in Tennessee.