Rogers Block, Main Street, Wheeling, WV
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Thomas Shaw Tappan
(1838 – 1902)
1838 Oct 28
State Records, Cincinnati, OH, Thomas Shaw Tappan is born to Benjamin Tappan and Elizabeth Shaw
1850 Sep 04
Cincinnati, OH, US census, Thomas Tappan a1 age 12
1859 Jul 20
State Records, T S Tappan (age 20) and Mary Elizabeth Stuart (age 18) are married
1862
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, Thos S “Tappin” as photographer at 20 W 5th; res 247 Central
1863 Jun-Jul
Indiana, Civil War Draft Registration, Thomas S “Tappin” as photographer
1870
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, Thomas S Tappan as photographer; (NO GALLERY listed)
1872
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, Thomas “Tappin” as photographer; (NO GALLERY listed)
1873, 1874
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, Thomas Tappan as photographer; res 148 w Fourth; NO GALLERY listed)
1875, 1876
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, T S “Tappin” as photographer for Howland’s Gallery; res Covington
1877
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, Thos S Tappan as photographer at 74 W Fifth, (C W Howland); res Covington
1879 Feb 05
Wheeling (WV) Daily Intelligence, item says that Tappan “the Bellaire photographer”, photographed the Phunny Hook and Ladder Company in the public Square
1879 Aug 18
Wheeling (WV) Register, item mentions “Tappan, the Bellaire photographer”
1880 Jun 15
Belmont, Bellaire, OH, US census, Thomas Tappan, as photographer
1880 Nov 24
Wheeling (WV) Register, news item mentions Tappan the photographer
1881 May 17
Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer, item mentions T S Tappan as the “well known Bellaire photographer
1882 Oct 19
Wheeling (WV) Daily Intelligencer, item mentions T S Tappan as photographer
1883 Mar 02
WHEELING (WV) Register, news item mentions a coin collection of Tappan the photographer
1884 Nov 17
Wheeling (WV) Daily Intelligence, item tells of death of Mrs T S Tappan at age 43
1886 Jun 05
Wheeling (WV) Register, item mentions T S Tappan new photographs
1887
Cincinnati, OH, city directory, Thomas Tappan as photographer; rms 148 W 4th
1887 Sep 27
Wheeling (WV) Register, news item says a showcase for T S Tappan was robbed
1888
Wheeling, WV, city directory, T S Tappan as photographers, Tappan & Co, 1121 Main
1888 May 25
Wheeling (WV) Daily Intelligence, item says J H Connell of Tappan’s Gallery has made some views of residences
1889 May 24
Wheeling (WV) Register, item says T S Tappan talks of giving up the photograph gallery
Note that this was the year of the Johnstown Flood
1889 Jun 23
Wheeling (WV) Sunday Register, item says Harry McMillan of Toronto who was working for Tappan and Co has left for Cincinnati, OH
1889 Aug 11
Wheeling (WV) Register, small ad for the Tappan and CO, 1121 Main
1890 Sep 06
Wheeling (WV) Register, story about court case mentions firm of Tappan and Connel
From here on, Tappan is associated with Connel at 1121 Main street
1890, 1892-1893, 1896, 1898, 1901
Wheeling, WV, city directory, Tappan and Connel as photographers at 1121 Main (G W Connel)
1900 Jun 12
Richland, OH, US census, Thomas S Tappan (SR) no occupation shown
1902 Oct 25
Bellaire, O, state records, Thomas Shaw Tappan dies at age 63
1903
Wheeling, WV, city directory, George W Connel as photographer at 1121 Main
Here is a recap of the company names and locations:
1872 to 1878 as photographer for other galleries
1879 to 1888 as independent photographer
1888 to 1889 as Tappan and Co
1890 to 1902 as Tappan and Connel
06 Feb 1879
18 Aig 1879
24 Nov 1880
15 Apr 1881
17 May 1884
19 Oct 1882
02 Mar 1883
19 Feb 1884
05 Jun 1886
27 Sep 1887
25 May 1888
24 May 1859
23 Jun 1889
05 Aug 1889
06 Sep 1890
05 Sep 1898
16 Aug 1899
22 Feb 1900
Wheeling, WV
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Belaire, OH
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Belaire, OH
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Belaire, OH
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Belaire, OH
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Rogers Block, Main Street, Wheeling, WV
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Rogers Block, Main Street, Wheeling, WV
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Rogers Block, Main Street, Wheeling, WV
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