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.