Tappan, Lewis

Life Span
to
Full name
Lewis Tappan
Place of Birth
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
2
No. of Children
7
Family
Benjamin Tappan (father), Sarah Holmes Tappan (mother), Benjamin Tappan (brother), Arthur Tappan (brother), Susan Aspinwall (first wife, 1813), Sarah Jackson Davis (second wife, 1854)
Occupation
Businessman
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Church or Religious Denomination
Presbyterian
Unitarian or Universalist
Political Parties
Republican
Other Affiliations
Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
Colonizationists
Chicago Style Entry Link
Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Lewis Tappan and the Evangelical War Against Slavery. Cleveland, OH: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1969. view record
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