Tallman family papers 0419
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Manuscripts and Archives PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library Tallman family papers 0419
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Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical Note ...... 3 Scope and Content ...... 5 Arrangement ...... 5 Administrative Information ...... 6 Related Materials ...... 6 Controlled Access Headings ...... 6 Collection Inventory ...... 7 Peleg Tallman (1764-1841) ...... 7 Peleg Tallman (1836-1863) ...... 7 Frank Gifford Tallman (1860-1938) ...... 8 Annie Dickie Tallman ...... 10
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Summary Information
Repository: Manuscripts and Archives Creator: Tallman family Title: Tallman family papers ID: 0419 Date [inclusive]: 1799-1949 Physical Description: 6 Linear Feet General Physical 6 linear feet and 4 oversize items Description note: Language of the English . Material: Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, notebooks, and memorabilia relating to the Tallman family, although the bulk of materials pertain to Frank Gifford Tallman.
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Biographical Note
The Tallman family resided in Rhode Island, Maine, Pennsylvania, and later Wilmington, Delaware. Three generations are documented in this collection: Peleg Tallman (1764-1841), his grandson Peleg Tallman (1836-1863), and his son Frank Gifford Tallman (1860-1938), along with Frank's first wife, Annie Dickie (1859-1922).
Peleg Tallman (1764-1841) was one of the preeminent men in Woolwich and Bath, Maine, in addition to have been an elected official and successful mercantile businessman. He was born July 24, 1764 in Tiverton, Rhode Island to Peleg Tallman (1736-1840) and Sarah Soule (1754-1784).
He served with the Continental Army during the American Revolution as a privateer on the ship Trumbull. In 1780, during a battle, he lost one of his arms, was captured by the British, and imprisoned in England and Ireland from 1781 to 1783. After making his way back to New England following peace, Tallman relocated to Bath, Maine and engaged in the mercantile business. He retired from the sea in 1801, after having been in command of several vessels and voyaging to various ports in the United States, West Indies, Europe, Cape Verde Islands, and to Madras, India, and the Island of Mauritius.
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On June 15, 1790, Tallman married Eleanor Clarke (1774-1857). They had ten children: James Tallman (1791-1804), Scott Jenckes Tallman (1795-1853), Henry Tallman (1797-1801), Maria Theresa Tallman (1799-1881), Benjamin Franklin Tallman (1800-1893), Eliza Sophia Tallman (1802-1863), Caroline Tallman (1802-1810), James Peleg Tallman (1804-1853), Henry Clancy Tallman (1806-1885), and Caroline Ann Appleton Tallman (1809-1874). At different times, the family lived in Bath, Vassalboro, and Woolwich, Maine.
Tallman was elected to the U.S. Congress as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party from 1811 to 1813. He declined to be re-elected but did serve one term from 1821 to 1822 in the Maine State Senate. Additionally, he became an overseer of the Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, from 1802 to 1840.
Tallman died March 12, 1840 in Bath, Maine. He was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery, but was later reinterred in Forest Hills Cemetery, Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Peleg Tallman (1836-1863) was born April 18, 1836, in Bath, Maine to Henry Tallman (1806-1885) and Sarah Fitts (1808-1856), the grandson of Peleg and Eleanor (Clarke) Tallman. On September 29, 1857, he married Maria Hay Hudson (1837-1910), and had three children: Henry Paine Tallman (1858-1859), Frank Gifford Tallman (1860-1938), and Peleg C. Tallman (1861-1907).
Tallman moved to Dubuque, Iowa where he was an extensive dealer in lands in 1855 and 1856. Following the economic crisis of 1857, for a year he was the assistant superintendent of the construction of the Dubuque custom house and post office. Additionally, he managed the shot tower owned by George W. Rogers & Co. where lead shot for ammunition was produced by dropping molten lead through a copper sieve from a great height. In the spring of 1859, together with William Hyde Clark, leased the shot tower but ended the business after three months.
In 1862, Tallman became a war correspondent for the New York Times and died during the Civil War on April 15, 1863 in Columbus, Kentucky.
Frank Gifford Tallman (1860-1938) was a mechanical engineer and worked as an executive at several different companies before joining E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in 1905. He was born January 26, 1860 in Dubuque, Iowa to Peleg Tallman and Maria Hay Hudson. Following his father's death in 1863, Frank, his mother, and brother lived with family in Portland, Maine. His mother married William Avery Sweet (1830-1904) and the family moved to Syracuse, New York.
Tallman studied mechanical engineering at Cornell University before going to work at his stepfather's steel rolling mills. By age 25, he had been a superintendent of a small rolling mill in Windsor Locks, Connecticut; assistant foreman in the machine shops of the Corliss Steam Engine Works in Providence, Rhode Island; assistant superintendent and superintendent of Sweet's Manufacturing Company in Syracuse; and general superintendent of the steel mills of Carnegie, Phipps & Company in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.
On February 16, 1881, Tallman married Annie May Dickie (1859-1922). Annie was the daughter of Henry Dickie (1819-1906) and Catharine Weeks Daffler (1826-1871). Together, they had five children: William Sweet Tallman (1881-1961), Marian Ellen Tallman (1883-1970; married Irving R. Warner, of the Warner Company), Katharine Marie Tallman (1886-1945; married Thomas Woodnutt Miller), Ethel
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Tallman's association with the E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company began in 1905 when he took a position as director of purchases. He later became director and vice president in charge of purchases. He also served as president of several du Pont interests, including the DuPont Building Corporation, the Hotel du Pont Company, and the DuPont Playhouse Company. Additionally, he was member of the Executive Committee and Finance Committee, as well as being one of five heads of departments included in a syndicate organized by Pierre S. du Pont (1870-1954) and associates which purchased the entire interest of General T. Coleman du Pont (1863-1930) in the DuPont Company. Tallman retired from the company after twenty years of service in 1925.
After retiring, Tallman turned his interests to philanthropy. He established the Tallman Foundation at Bowdoin College, contributed to the John Edison Sweet Memorial Professorship at Cornell, provided a cottage for girls at the Onondaga County Orphan's Home in Syracuse, and donated a set of chimes to the Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church in Wilmington.
Tallman died April 1, 1938 in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Scope and Content
The collection consists of correspondence, legal papers, notebooks, and memorabilia relating to the Tallman family including Peleg Tallman (1764-1841), Peleg Tallman (1836-1863), Frank G.Tallman (1860-1938) and Annie Dickie Tallman. The bulk of the collection pertains to Frank Gifford Tallman.
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Arrangement
Materials are arranged by their creators and then grouped by type of material, e.g. correspondence, ledgers, diaries and printed matter.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Manuscripts and Archives
PO Box 3630 Wilmington, Delaware 19807 [email protected] URL: http://www.hagley.org/library
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Related Materials
Related Material Frank Gifford Tallman papers (Accession 0381), Manuscripts and Archives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.
Frank G. Tallman photographs (Accession 1972.436), Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department, Hagley Museum and Library.
Tallman family papers, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford, Connecticut.
Abraham Lincoln collection (MSS 0521), Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Correspondence. • Patents • Social history
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Collection Inventory
Peleg Tallman (1764-1841), 1799-1899 Creator: Tallman, Peleg, 1764-1840
Title/Description Instances Observations written to Benjamin Willcox, 1799-1846 box 1
"A friend" to Denny McCobb, 1899 box 1
Peleg Tallman to Richard D. Tucker, 1810 January 29 box 1
Peleg Tallman to Hon. Wm. King, 1812 January 19 box 1
Peleg Tallman to Hon. Wm. King, 1812 June 9 box 1
Peleg Tallman to Hon. Wm. King, 1814 Feb 12 box 1
Peleg Tallman to Hon. Wm. King, 1817 Jan 22 box 1
Holder Tallman to Peleg Tallman, 1815 Dec 21 box 1
Peleg Tallman to "Gentlemen assessors of the town of box 1 Bath" [Me.], 1836 May 1
Eleanor Tallman to Peleg Tallman, 1836 May 10 box 1
Peleg Tallman to Eleanor Tallman, 1840 ApriI 12 box 1
"Committee of the First Church of Christ in Bath" to Eleanor box 1 Tallman, 1823 March 28
Ellen Sophia Lark Tallman (grandchild) to Eleanor Tallman, 1846 box 1 May 8
Peleg Tallman, sailor of the Revolution, master mariner and box 1 member of Congress, by Walter H. Sturtevant, printed history with mss. notes, Oct 1899
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Peleg Tallman (1836-1863), 1857-1949 Creator: Tallman, Peleg, 1836-1863
Title/Description Instances Incoming letters to Peleg Tallman, 1857 June 25 - 1862 May box 1 29undated
Incoming letters in letterbook, 1857 October 7 - 1860 June 11 box 1
Outgoing letters in letterbook, pp. 1-102, including letters from box 1 McLean & Tallman, 1857 November 30 to 1861 December 23
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Letters, receipts, diary/notebook of Peleg Tallman with obituary box 1 notice and other attachments tucked in the back cover, 1861 December 23
Notes on law lectures, 18561857 box 1
Journal containing ledger acccounts of McLean & Tallman, real box 2 estate company, 1857
Ledger of McLean & Tallman, 1857-1858 box 3
Diploma from Harvard University (1857 July 15) with enclosing box 4 letter to F.G. Tallman from Harry L. Palmer, 1949 October 27
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Frank Gifford Tallman (1860-1938), 1876-1933 Creator: Tallman, Frank G. (Frank Gifford), 1860-1938
Title/Description Instances Tallman family history - two memos, 10 Feb 1932 box 5
Papers re the Hartman Steel Co. laboratory box 5
Correspondence and papers re engineering consulting, 1890-1892; box 5 printed notice of Brown Hoisting & Conveying Machine Co., Cleveland, 0., 1896
Account book, personal and business accounts, 1881-1891 box 5 Scope and Contents note
second half contains journal entries
Engineering notebook, circa 1884-1891 box 5
Engineering notebook, 1886 box 5
Engineering notebook, circa 1888-1891 box 5
Printed patents of Frank G. Tallman and others box 6
Correspondence and papers re patent applications of Frank G. box 6 Tallman, 1885-1892
Correspondence with the American Wire Nail Co., Covington, box 6 Ky., re: repeater patent infringement, 1889-1892
Correspondence with Oberschlesische Eisen-Industrie, Gleiwitz, box 6 Poland re license for wire forming patent, 1890-1892
Correspondence with Pearson and Knowles Coal and Iron Co., box 6 Ltd., Warrington, G.B., re license for coiling machine (18pp. typescript), 1890 September-1891 July
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Papers re U.S. Steel Co., Jackson, 0., 1890-1891 box 6
Correspondence, receipts, and copies of licenses for reels and box 6 repeaters built for the Portage Iron Co., Ltd., Duncansville, Pa., 1897-1898
Various patent license agreements, 1888-18911902 box 6
Drafts of patent specifications, coiling and removing rods and reel box 7 patents, undated
Original sketches for automatic reels, 1887-1890 box 7
Preliminary sketches for continuous billet mill designed for box 7 Shoenberger, Speer & Co., steel producers, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1891
Blueprints, 1887-1892 box 7
Sundry papers re patents and licensing, 1884-1891 box 7
Blank license agreement forms 1890, 1890 box 7
Correspondence between F.G. Tallman and Thomas A. Jenckes, box 8 his attorney, re two lawsuits involving Tallman family property in the city of Boston, Mass., 1881-1916
Receipts, bills, and note of F.G. Tallman in account with Thomas box 8 A. Jenckes, including insurance policy and mortgage security for loan, 1881-1904
Broadside advertising mortgagee's sale of property at Larch and box 8 Ivy Streets, Providence, R.I., 25 March 1881
Court briefs for lawsuits involving Tallman family property in box 8 Boston - Frank G. Tallman et al. vs. Christian Rechel, District of Massachusetts, Circuit Court of the United States, May Term 1888; William H. Sweet et al. vs. Christian Rechel, Supreme Court of the United States, October Term 1894
Sundry papers, memoranda, notes, court statements, land title and box 8 estate abstracts, and drafts and copies of documents re Boston property lawsuits, 1885-1894undated
Sundry papers, etc. re Boston property lawsuits, 1885-1905 box 9
Ledger of personal financial accounts, 1878-1880 box 10
Leases, indentures, mortgages, bonds, agreements, stock box 10 certificates, financial statements, 1881-1900
Marriage certificate of F.G. Tallman and Annie ("Anna") Dickie, box 10 1881
Miscellaneous lists, advertisement box 10
Cancelled notes, receipts, letters re loan of F.G. Tallman from box 10 stepfather W.A. Sweet, 1881-1890
Correspondence re operation on Peleg H. Tallman (1861-1907), box 10 brother of F.G. Tallman, 1900-1901
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Correspondence and blueprints re alterations made of Tallman box 10 residence at 1401 West 10th Street, Wilmington, Del., 1927 June- November
The Architectural Forum with pictures of Tallman residence, 1919 box 10 August
Plans and drawings for house in Syracuse, N.Y. for. F.G. Tallman, box 10 undated
Check stub book of F.G. Tallman, First National Bank of box 10 Syracuse, 1883-1885
Cancelled checks, Philadelphia National Bank, 1933 box 10
Check stubs, balance book, 19321915 box 10
Memorabilia, maps, cards, programs, etc. re the World's Fairs, box 11 Chicago and St. Louis, 18931904
Programs, invitations, clippings, etc. for social and professional box 11 activities of F.G. Tallman, circa 1898-1917
Scrapbook of items relating to mechanical engineering and to box 12 various engineering firms, 1882-1895
Scrapbook containg drawings of mechanical designs, many box 13 marked W.A.S. (William A. Sweet), 1881-1887; book of figures and sketches, 1881-1886; operating costs of Hartman Steel Co., Ltd. 1888; three booklets of cost sheets for unidentified company, 1888-January 1889, 1890; sundry loose papers
Scrapbook of invitations, programs, etc. for social and academic box 14 adtivities of F.G. Tallman, 1876-84
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Annie Dickie Tallman, 1844-1937 Creator: Dickie, Annie Mae, 1859-1922
Title/Description Instances Annie Dickie to F.G. Tallman, 1878 August - 1879 September box 15
3 unattached covers box 15
1 torn letter [of Annie Dickie] box 15
Miscellaneous floral water colors by M.A.D., 1879 box 15
Ribbon, scarf, pressed flowers box 15
Diary of Annie Dickie, 1879 box 15
Diary of Annie Dickie, 1880 box 15
Dickie family letters, Oswego County, N.Y., 1844-1895 box 15
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Letters to Mrs. F.G. Tallman from her daughter, Marion E. box 15 Tallman, 1903-1904
Letters from J. S. Schroeder and F.C. Schroeder, Jr., 1928 box 15
Certificate of F.G. Tallman from Syracuse High School, 1876 box 15
Invitations to M.E. Tallman's wedding, 1908 January 25 box 15
Miscellaneous cards and lists box 15
Constitution of the Syracuse Philharmonic Society, circa 1884 box 15
Letter from Miss Webb to Miss K. Tallman, 1912 June 28 box 15
Postcard to Mrs. F.G. Tallman from F.M.G., 1911 July 13 box 15
New England Historical & Genealogical Register , 1931 January box 16
Genealogy and history of The Ballous in America, 1937 box 16
Newspaper clippings box 16
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