HON. WM. H. TAPPAN 
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an Englishman, who settled at New- 
bury, in 1637. He was a son of 
Colonel Eben and Sarah (Hooper) 
Tappan. His grandfather, Ebenezer 
Tappan, an oldtime merchant of Man- 
chester, was a soldier in the Revolu- 
tion. His great-grandfather, the Rev. 
Benjamin Tappan, was the second set- 
tled minister at Manchester, where he 
had charge of the parish over 40 
years, till his death, occuring in 1790. 
He was educated in the public 
schools of the town and attended the 
academy. He afterward spent some 
years in Boston, becoming a draughts- 
Insane pon the arrival of Prof. 
Louis Agassiz in this country, Mr. 
Tappan was employed by him for sev- 
eral years in making drawings to illus- 
trate his books and lectures. He ac- 
companied the distinguished naturalist 
on his tour in the South. 
Thirty years of his life he spent in 
the West. His adventurous experi- 
ences withthe savages and hairbreadth 
escapes were many. It was in the 
days before the steam engine had 
plowed its way west of the Mississippi, 
and when the savage Indian tribes 
held full sway in that section. 
He first went into the far west in 
1848 and a year later he became a 
guest of the rifle regiment at the solic- 
itation of Secretary of War Crawford 
of Ohio, to enter upon peace negotia- 
tions with the wild tribes in Indiana, 
Oregon, Washington Territory and 
Idaho. The same year he was ap- 
pointed Indian agent in these states 
and territory. His efforts in attempt- 
ing to make treaties and of extinguish- 
ing the Indians’ title of land were un- 
availing, for the next year the great 
Indian war broke out and he was com- 
pelled to flee the country, traveling 
1000 miles in the middle of winter 
through the deep snows: and _ the 
mountains to Puget Sound. 
He was a resident of Washington 
Territory for four years, during the 
latter part of which he was elected to 
the first legislature for four years, but 
he resigned before the expiration of 
the term to accompany Gov. Stevens 
of Washington to the Yellowstone to 
make a treaty with the Blackfeet In- 
dians, the most hostile of all the tribes 
on the continent. 
Mr. Tappan had been called to the 
Yakamas previous to this in an en- 
deavor to pacify them, and he was in 
council with their chiefs three days. 
He did not succeed in his mission, 
however, and was forced to return 
He was said to be the last white man 
to get out of the$country alive. 
During his life on the Pacific coast, 
he and a partner named Knighton 
were agents for the Pacific Mail 
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Steamship company, continuing thus 
for about six years when the docks of 
the company were burned and the 
terminal was transferred to Portland, 
Ore. He also had some experience 
in cattle raising during his lite in the 
_ West, operating a large cattle ranch 
on the Columbia river for some years. 
He finally disposed of the cattle, how- 
ever, in Vancouver, and crossed the 
Rockies again to Colorado, starting a 
sheep ranch in Colorado Springs. 
Shortly after this in 1856, he started 
in the hardware business in Denver 
and Central City, in which he pros- 
pered till the great fire in 1874, which 
completely destroyed the latter city. 
Lieut. Fremont’s exploration trip 
to Oregon was something which Mr. 
Tappan was very much interested in 
at the time, and he expected to go on 
the trip, but on learning the route 
proposed, which did not meet his ap- 
proval, he abandoned the attempt. 
He was afterwards very thankful for 
this, as nearly the entire party lost 
their lives in the mountains. 
He was in the far West at the time 
of the big gold fever, 1849, and though 
he cannot be called one of the ‘‘forty- 
niners” he was interested in mining, 
and during his stay in Colorado and 
California he was interested in 100 or 
more mines. 
“Few men there were who traveled 
that section more than he. He 
crossed and recrossed the mountains 
four times, and also made the round 
trip once by way of Panama. 
After the destruction of Central 
City Mr. Tappan returned to his 
native home in Manchester, which 
had, during his absence, grown into 
quite a summer resort. Here he has 
since resided, giving his time to sur- 
veying and dealing to some extent in 
real estate. In 1881 he represented 
the town in the State Legislature, 
and in 1885 and 1886 he was State 
Senator from this district,—in -fact 
the last State Senator to represent 
this town until the past fall election. 
He has always been a staunch Repub- 
lican in politics, and was at one time 
a member of the Central State com- 
mittee. 
For 25 years, until feeble health 
forced him to resign, Mr. Tappan was 
secretary and treasurer of the Elder 
Brethren, of which he was one of the 
organizers. He was also president of 
the Manchester Historical society, of 
whicd he was one of the founders. 
Mr. Tappan was twice married, his 
first wife being Margaret Anderson, 
daughter of a British officer of the 
East India company. In 1881 he 
married Miss Augusta Wheaton of 
this town, who survives him. He is 
also survived by one sister, the only 
one remaining of a family of ten,— 
Mrs. General Tannatt of Spokaine, 
Wash. ; a nephew, Lewis N. Tappan 
of Providence, R.I.; and a niece, Miss 
Alice Eveleth of Boston. 
Funeral services will be held this 
afternoon. The pallbearers will be 
John He Cheever, Alfred S. Jewett, 
John Desmond ane Thomas B. Stone. 
“Death is the crown of life: 
Were death denied, poor man would live 
in vain; 
Were death denied, 
lite?’ 
to live would not be 
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