Eli Todd Tappan

1824 - 1888  (64 years)

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• Name	Eli Todd Tappan  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	30 Apr 1824	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	23 Oct 1888	Columbus, Franklin, Ohio   [4]
  Person ID	I20864	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2020

  
  

  Father	Benjamin Tappan, Senator from Ohio,   b. 25 May 1773, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts d. 20 Apr 1857, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth "Betsy" Lord,   b. 16 Jul 1784, Lyme, New London, Connecticut d. 14 Jun 1840 (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	1823  [4]
  Family ID	F12398	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lydia Lucretia McDowell,   b. 4 Jul 1825, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio d. 24 Dec 1904, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	4 Feb 1851	Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio   [5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Mary Tappan,   b. 14 Dec 1851, Steubenville, Jefferson, Ohio d. 25 Aug 1916, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F12400	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2019

  
  

• Notes

  "[A] American educator, mathematician, author, lawyer and newspaper editor who served as president of Kenyon College, among other public distinctions." [Wikipedia] "He was educated in the schools of Steubenville, by private tutors, and at St. Mary's College, Baltimore, Md. He studied law with his father and his father's partner, Edwin M. Stanton, who was afterwards Secretary of War under Lincoln. Although admitted to the bar in 1846, Mr. Tappan turned his attention to journalism, publishing for two years a paper called the Ohio Press. He later practiced law in Steubenville, where he was mayor, 1844-5, and superintendent of schools, 1856-9. He was professor of mathematics in the University of Ohio, 1859-60 and 1865-8. He was president of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, 1869-75, and commissioner of the Public Schools of Ohio, from 1887 until the time of his death. He was the author of a number of textbooks on mathematics. He received the following degrees: A. M. from St. Mary's, 1860; LL.D., from Williams, 1873, from Washington and Jefferson, 1874, and from several other colleges." [Tappan-Toppan Genealogy, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2988] "The McDowell Family." Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Annual Volume, 1899, ed. William Henry Egle. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1900. [S2659] The Hazen Family in America by Tracy Elliot Hazen, ed. Donald Lines Jacobus. Thomaston, Connecticut: Robert Hazen, 1947. [S2984] Massachusetts Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910, on familysearch.org., says "Eli T.". [S2662] Tappan-Toppan Genealogy: Ancestors and Descendants of Abraham Toppan of Newbury, Massachusetts, 1606-1672 by Daniel Langdon Tappan. Arlington, Massachusetts, 1915. [S2985] Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958, on familysearch.org., date only. [S2988] "The McDowell Family." Notes and Queries, Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania, Annual Volume, 1899, ed. William Henry Egle. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, 1900., place only.