File:WEBB(1892) p845 - Tallmadge, Theodore W.jpg

Theodore W. Tallmadge was born in Maysville, Kentucky, January 25, 1827, and received a liberal education through the generous heart of his father, Darius Tallmadge, who, from his own experience, realized the necessity of the education of the young. He at first attended Howe's Academy, at Lancaster, Ohio, and for two years, 1841 and 1842, he attended the college of Augusta, Kentucky. He passed his freshman year, 1843, in the Ohio University,at Athens, and the remaining three years of his college life were spent at Princeton College, graduating therefrom in 1846. He studied law at Columbus, Ohio, in the office of Henry Stanbery, and was admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Ohio and the Circuit Court of the United States in 1848. In 1849 he commenced the practice of law with Hon. John T. Brasee, and in January, 1852, he opened a private banking house in Lancaster, Ohio, pursuing the banking business for several years, during which time he was president of the Wabash Bank, at Wabash, Indiana, which had a note circulation of $200,000, and he was also a director in the Hocking Valley Bank, at Lancaster. In October, 1878, he moved his main office to Washington, District of Columbia, still retaining one in Columbus, Ohio, and in other places throughout the United States. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association of Washington, District of Columbia, practicing in the Court of Claims and all the Government departments. He is a member of Burnside Post No. 8 of the Department of the Potomac of the Grand Army of the Republic, having been elected for three terms as chaplain, and has served as aiddecamp on the staff of Colonel Charles P.Lincoln, department commander, also in that capacity on the staff of Commander-in-chief William Warner and Wheelock G. Veazey.

Image extracted from page 845 of Centennial History of the city of Washington, D.C., by WEBB, William B. - and WOOLDRIDGE (John) of Cleveland, Ohio. Original held and digitised by the British Library. Copied from Flickr.

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