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ABRAM TALLMAN
Originally published in 1900 |
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ABRAM TALLMAN.-In June, 1659. Douwe Harmansen (Tallman) emigrated
to America from the Province of Friesland, Holland, on board the
Dutch West India ship " Brown Fish," accompanied by his wife and four
children. He settled in New Amsterdam, where he remained about nine
years, and where three of his children were baptized. In the spring of 1668
he removed to Bergen, N. J., where, on the 12th of May of the same year, he
purchased from Governor Philip Carteret several lots in the Town of Bergen.
There he settled and there be died in 1678. So far as is known he was
an agriculturist. Some years after his purchase at Bergen he purchased
one or more large tracts near Nyack, in what is Rockland County, N. Y., on
which lands his sons settled. His children of the second generation were
Harman, Tennis, Jannetje, Anthony, and Douwe. The three last named
were born in New York. By his will, proved in the spring of 1678, he devised
his lands to his two sons, Tunis and Harman, who a few years later
sold their Bergen lands and settled in Rockland County, N. Y., from
whence their numerous descendants rapidly spread southward into New
Jersey.
Of the emigrant's children, his son, Harman Douwensen Tallman (2). born in Holland, married, June 1, 1686, Greetie Minnelly, a daughter of Minne Johannes, also a Hollander. Harman's brother, Tennis Douwensen Tallman, married, about 1707, Brechie Peters Haring, and had issue of the set and generation Dirk, Grietie. Drikie, Douwe, Maritie, John, Harman, and Brachie. John Tennis Tallman (3), baptized at Tappan, January 12, 1709, married Helena Isaacs Blawvelt, and had issue of the fourth generation Teunis, Garret, Brechie, and John John Johns Tallman (4), baptized at Tappan, September 3, 1751, married Francis Mabie. and had issue of the fifth generation Brechie, Elizabeth. Maria, Teunis, John, and Abraham. Abraham Johns Tallman (5), born near Tappan, August 3, 1793, married Maria de Ronde, and had issue, among others, of the sixth generation John A. Tallman (6), who married Caroline Conklin and had a son, Abram Tallman, the subject of this sketch. The latter is also connected with many other old Dutch families of this country, including the De Rondes, the Onderdonks, the Harings, and the Blawvelts, of Rockland County, N. Y. Abram Tallman (7) was born at Tallman's, Rockland County, N. Y., May 6, 1846. His father, John A. Tallman, like most of his ancestors, was a farmer, and Abram's early life was spent on the farm and attending school at Sufferns, N. Y. In 1862, when sixteen years of age, he taught school for a few months at Tallman's, this being the first venture he made in life for himself. In 1863 and 1864 he was employed in a photograph gallery in New York City, but this work proving too trying to his health, he returned to Tallman's and, after six months' rest on the farm, found employment at the Ramapo car shops, at Ramapo, Rockland County, N. Y., where he stayed for the next two years, learning the car building trade. Afterward he worked at the carpenter trade in Sufferns and Middletown, N. Y., and Paterson, N. J., and finally, in 1867, came to Englewood. In 1867 he engaged in the building business in Englewood, and has continued in that line ever since, having built many of the finest residences in the city and being one of the leading builders there. Mr. Tallman has always taken an active interest in the welfare of Englewood, having seen it grow from a village of about 1,500, in 1867, when he first came there, to a city of about 6,000 inhabitants in 1900. He was a member of the Englewood Township Committee from 1889 to 1893. He was also a member of the Citizens' Committee formed in 1895 to promote the movement for the incorporation of Englewood as a city, and when the place was finally incorporated in 1896 he was elected a member of the: first regular City Council and was Chairman of that body from 1896 to 1898. Mr. Tallman was married, in 1870, to Miss Maria Zabriskie, of what is now Oradell, Bergen County, N. J., whose ancestors were among the earliest settlers of Bergen County. They have one daughter and three sons, of whore one, William Tallman, is a lawyer, practicing in New York City.
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