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(t773-lS.JT) (q.v.) ; John (ITSl-lSTl), presiJent of tlie Americ.-in Tract society; Lewis (1783-1873) an.l David (Harvard. A.B.."l804.died. 1843). He attended the common scliools of Northampton, and was apprenticed to a wholesale importing nier- cliant in Boston. 1801-06. In 1800 his employers sot him up in the dry gviods importing business in Portland, Maine. His partner was Henry D. Sfwall. son of ("hit-f-Justice Sewall. and in 1808 thi-y removed the business to Montreal. Canada. He was married in September, 1810, to Frances, daughter of Col. Edward Antill of the Conti- nental army, and embarked for England to pur- chase goods. On the outbreak of the war of 1812, Tappan and Sewall refused to take the oath of allegiance, and were obliged to leave the pro- vince at a great financial sacrifice. In 1815 he engaged in the importing business in New York rity. the firm being Arthur Tappan & Co., but in 1816 the country was so flooded with importa- tions that he began a jobbing business, which he conducted with great success. He was elected chairman of the American Education society of New York, in 1807; was its president, 1831-33 ; was associated with his brother Lewis in the founding of the Journal of Commerce. Sept. 1, 1827, and was one of the founders of the Amer- ican Tract society in 1828. He opposed slavery, and in 1830 paid the fine and costs necessary to lil)erate William Lloyd Garrison, who was con- fined in jail at Baltimore : supported the publi- cation of Tlie Liberator, and aided the establish- ment of the Emancipator in New York city, in March, 1833. He was one of the founders of the New England Anti-Slavery society at Boston, and was chosen first president of the New York city Anti-Slavery society, Oct. 3, 1833. He was president of the American Anti-Slavery society and gave $1000 a month for its maintenance, but in 1840 he resigned on account of the offen- sive attitude of several of its members toward the church and the Union. He subscribed $15,000 to Lane Theological seminary, and was instru- mental in securing Dr. Lyman Beecher as first president of the institution in 1832, but he failed before his payment became due, and his brother John and other relations paid the amount. When he heard of the act of the trustees prohibiting the antislavery discussion in the institution, he presented the dissenting students with $1000 which enabled them to repair to Oberlin seminary, Ohio, in 1S35. He gave a professorship and •' Tai)pan Hall " to the college, on condition tliat it should be conducted on antislavery principles. On Dec. 16, 1835, his store was destroyed by fire, and %vas immediately rebuilt, but in ^lay. 1837, owing to the financial panic the firm was obliged to suspend operations. In 1849 he purchased a moiety of tbe establishment known as the mer-

cantile agency, with which he was connected until 1854, and resided at Belleville, N.J., but in 1854 he removed to New Haven, Conn., where he died July 23. 1805.

TAPPAN, Benjamin, senator, was born in Northampton, Mass., May 25, 1773; .son of Ben- jamin and Sarah (Homes) Tappan, and a brother of Arthur Tappan (q.v.). He established himself in the practice of law in Steubenville, Ohio, in 1779 ; married Nancy Wright, sister of John C. Wright (q.v.) ; was a state senator, 1803-04 ; served in the war of 1812 as aide-de-camp to Gen. William Wadsworth ; was appointed county judge, and was presiding judge of the 5th Ohio circuit, 1826-33. He was appointed by President Jackson, L^.S. judge for the district of Ohio in 1833, serving till 1839, when he was elected a Democratic U.S. senator and served till March 3, 1845. In 1848 he joined the Free-Soil movement. He is the author of : Cases Decided in the Court of Common Pleas (1831). He died in Steuben- ville. Ohio, April 12, 1857.

TAPPAN, David, educator, was born in Man- chester, Mass., April 21, 1752; son of tiie Rev. Benjamin and Elizabetli (Marsh) Tappan. His father (1720-1790) was settled in the ministry at Manchester, Mass., in 1745. David was grad- uated from Harvard, A.B., 1771, A.M., 1774; studied divinity and was ordained pastor of a Congregational church at Newbury, Mass., in 1774. He resigned his pastorate in 1792, and was HoUis professor of divinity at Harvard, 1792- 1803. He was a member of the American Acad- emy of Arts and Sciences. The honorary degree of A.M. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1786, and that of D.D. by Harvard in 1794. He is the author of many sermons and addresses, some of which were published posthumously under the title. Sermons on Important Subjects, with a biographical sketch by the Rev. Abiel Holmes (1807). and Lectures on Jeicish Antiquities delivered at Harvard. 1S03-03 (1807). He died in Cambridge. Mass., April 27, 1803.

TAPPAN, David Stanton, educator and clergy- man, was born in Steubenville, Ohio, April 2, 1845 ; son of Dr. Benjamin and Cella (Stanton) Tappan ; grandson of Benjamin (q.v.) and Nancy (Wright)' Tappan and of Dr. David and Lucy (Norman) Stanton. He was graduated from Miami university, A.B.. 1864. A.M., 1867, and from the Western Theological seminary in 1867. He was licensed to preach by the presbytery of Allegheny in April, 1866, and was ordained to the ministry by the presbytery of Des Moines in April, 1868. He was married, Aug. 12, 1869, to Anna, daughter of Emile and Georgianna (Herd- man) Grand-Girard of Hillslwro. Ohio. He was principal of Salt Lake academy. Pa., 1865-66 : of Callensburg (Pa.) institute, 1866, and of Mount