Talman, John – Tappan, Mason Weare
Talman, John
journalist, poet, was born July 30, 1851, in Perinton, N. Y. He is a successful journalist of St. Paul, Minn.; where he is on the editorial staff of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He has contributed extensively to current literature; and is the author of a number of meritorious poems.
Taney, Roger Brooke
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born March 17, 1777, in Calvert county, Md. In 1801 he was elected to the Maryland state assembly and settled in Frederick; and subsequently served four years in the state senate. He removed to Baltimore in 1822; in 1827 was chosen attorney-general of Maryland; and in 1831 was appointed attorney-general of the United States in President Jackson's cabinet. He was appointed a justice of the supreme court of the United States, but was again rejected by the senate; and in 1836 was appointed chief justice of the supreme court of the United States. He died Oct. 12, 1864, in Washington, D. C.
Taneyhill, Richard Henry
lawyer, jurist, author, was born June 30, 1822, in Calvert county, Md. He is a prominent lawyer of Barnesville, Ohio, where he has been mayor and justice of the peace for two terms. He is the author of a work entitled Leatherwood God; Life of Logan, the Mingo Chief; and other works.
Tannehill, Adamson
soldier, congressman, was born in 1752 in Frederick county, Md. In 1812 he was brigadiergeneral of Pennsylvania volunteers. He was then elected to congress as a democrat, and served from 1813 till 1815. He died July 7, 1817, in Pittsburg, Pa.
Tannehill, J. L
poet. He has filled numerous positions of trust in the state of Ohio; and has contributed both prose and verse to the periodical press which have attracted favorable attention.
Tannehill, Wilkins
journalist, author, was born March 4, 1787, in Pittsburg, Pa. He was a journalist of Nashville; and the author of Freemasons' Manual; Sketches of the History of Literature; and Sketches of the History of Roman Literature. He died June 2, 1858, in Nashville, Tenn.
Tanner, Adolphus H
soldier, congressman, was born May 23, 1833, in Granville, N. Y. In 1862 he entered the volunteer army as a captain; and as lieutenant-colonel of the one hundred and twenty-third regiment of infantry served until the close of the war. In 1868 he was elected a representative from New York to the forty-first congress as a republican.
Tanner, Alva Amasa
farmer, poet, was born Dec. 26, 1849, in South Cottonwood, Utah. In 1882 he moved to Idaho; has been justice of the peace; deputy sheriff; and twice a candidate for the Idaho legislature on the populist ticket. He is also a professional phrenologist, and has traveled extensively lecturing on that subject. He has written extensively for the periodical press, and his poems have been given a place in several standard collections.
Tanner, Benjamin Tucker
bishop, author, was born Dec. 25, 1835, in Pittsburg, Pa. He is a bishop of the African methodist church; and the author of Paul vs. Pius Ninth; The Negro's Origin, and Is the Negro Cursed?; and Outline of the History and Government of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Tanner, George Clinton
educattor, clergyman, author, was born Jan. 21, 1834, in West Greenwich, R. I. He received his education at the Plainfield academy and the Brown university, from which latter institution he graduated in 1857. In 1857-58 he was principal of graded schools in Winona, Minn.; in 1858-67 he was instructor in classics in the schools of the Bishop Seabury mission, and headmaster; and in 1867-87 he was rector of St. Paul's church of Owatana. In 1872-87 he was superintendent of schools for Steele county; and since 1887 has been chaplain at the Shattuck school of Faribault, Minn. During these thirty years he has been actively engaged in laying the foundations of church and educational work. He is the author of the History of the Episcopal Church in Minnesota; and registrar and historian of the diocese of Minnesota.
Tanner, Henry S
geographer, author, was born in 1786 in New York. He was a geographer of Philadelphia; and the author of Memoir on the Recent Surveys in the United States; View of the Valley of the Mississippi; American Traveler; Central Traveler; New Picture of Philadelphia; and Description of Canals and Railways in the United States. He died in 1858 in New York city.
Tanner, Herbert Battles
physician, was born Feb. 13, 1859, in Whitewater, Wis. He was city physician of Kaukauna, Wis., during 1886-93; mayor of the city for two terms in 1895-96; and president of the Fox River Medical society in 1897.
Tanner, John
captive, author, was born about 1780 in Kentucky. He wrote a Narrative of the Captivity and Adventures of John Tanner during Thirty Years' Residence Among the Indians. He died in 1847.
Tanner, John Riley
soldier, state senator, governor, was born April 4, 1844, in Warrick county, Ind. In 1863 he entered company A, ninety-eighth Illinois infantry, and served until 1865 in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. After the war he returned to Illinois, and purchased sixty acres of land in Clay county, which he occupied until 1870, when he was elected sheriff of Clay county. In 1880 he was elected to the Illinois state senate; was elected state treasin 1886; and subsequently was United States marshal for the southern district of Illinois. In 1896 he was elected governor of the state of Illinois. urer
Tanner, Richard Robert
lawyer, was born March 30, 1858, in San Juan, Cal. For a number of years he was assistant postmaster of San Buena Ventura; and in 1885 was admitted to the bar at Santa Monica, and is now one of the leading members of the legal profession in Los Angeles county. For two years he was deputy district attorney of his county, and for eight years filled with distinction the office of city attorney.
Tappan, Arthur
merchant, journalist, was born May 22, 1786, in Northhampton, Mass. He was one of the founders of the American Tract society; New York Journal of Commerce; and of Oberlin college, Ohio; and first president of the American Anti-Slavery society at Philadelphia. He died July 23, 1865, in New Haven, Conn.
Tappan, Benjamin
soldier, engraver, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born May 25, 1773, in Northampton, Mass. In 1799 he emigrated to Ohio, and was one of the earliest settlers there.
In 1803 he was elected to the legislature of the new state; served in the war of 1812 as aid-de-camp to General Wadsworth; and was for seven years president judge of the fifth Ohio circuit. In 1833 he was appointed United States judge for the district of Ohio. He was a senator in congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1845. He died April 12, 1857, in Steubenville, Ohio.
Tappan, David
clergyman, author, was born April 21, 1752, in Cambridge, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman, pastor at Newbury, Mass., in 1774- 92, and Hollis professor of divinity at Harvard university from 1792 until his death. He was the author of Sermons on on Important Subjects; and Lectures Jewish Antiquities. He died April 27, 1803, in Cambridge, Mass.
Tappan, Eli Todd
educator, college president, author, was born April 30, 1824, in Steubenville, Ohio. In 1844-45 he was mayor of Steubenville, and he was superintendent of the public schools there in 1858-59. From 1868 till 1875 he was president of Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, where he was professor of mathematics from 1875 till 1887. In 1887 he was appointed state commissioner of common schools of Ohio, which post he now holds.
He has published a Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry; a Treatise on Geometry and Trigonometry; Notes and Exercises on Surveying for the Use of Students in Kenyon College; and Elements of Geometry.
Tappan, Henry Philip
clergyman, author, was born April 23, 1805, in Rhinebeck, N. Y. He was a Dutch reformed chancellor of the university of Michigan, university of the city of New York; and clergyman, professor of philosophy in the 1852-63. He was the author of Elements of Logic; Treatise on Universal Education; Review of Edwards's Inquiry Into the Freedom of the Will; The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will Determined by an Appeal to Consciousness; The Doctrine of the Freedom of the Will Applied to Moral Agency; A Step from the Old World to the New and Back Again; and Introductions to Illustrious Personages of the Nineteenth Century. He died Nov. 15, 1881, in Switzerland.
Tappan, James Camp
soldier, lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born in Franklin, Tenn. He is a successful lawyer of Helena, Ark.; was a brigadier-general in the confederate army; has twice served as a member of the Arkansas state legislature; and was speaker of the thirtyfirst session of the house of representatives. He has been judge of the circuit court, and receiver of the United States land office at Helena, Ark.
Tappan, Lewis
merchant, abolitionist, author, was born May 23, 1788, in Northampton, Mass. He was a merchant of New York city, proprietor of The Journal of Commerce, and active as an abolitionist; and the author of Life of Arthur Tappan, by his brother, a valuable contribution to anti-slavery literature. He died June 21, 1873, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Tappan, Mason Weare
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 20, 1817, in Newport, N. H. He was a member of the New Hampshire state legislature in 1853-55. He was a representative from New Hampshire in the thirty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses. He died Oct. 24, 1886, in Bradford, N. H.