Tappan may refer to:
People
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Tappan (Native Americans)
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Arthur Tappan
Arthur Tappan (May 22, 1786 – July 23, 1865) was an American businessman, philanthropist and abolitionist. He was the brother of Ohio Senator Benjamin Tappan and abolitionist Lewis Tappan, and nephew of Harvard Divinity School theologian ...
(1786–1865), abolitionist
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Benjamin Tappan (1773–1857), Ohio senator
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Clair S. Tappaan (1878–1932), California judge and Sierra Club president
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Eli Todd Tappan (1824–1888), president of Kenyon College, 1868–1875
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Henry Philip Tappan (1805–1881), president, University of Michigan, 1852–1863
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James Camp Tappan (1825–1906), Confederate Army Brigadier General
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Lewis Tappan
Lewis Tappan (May 23, 1788 – June 21, 1873) was an American abolitionist who in 1841 helped to secure freedom for the enslaved Africans aboard the '' Amistad''. He was born in Northampton, Massachusetts, into a Calvinist household.
Tappan w ...
(1788–1873), abolitionist, developer of credit reporting service
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Lewis Northey Tappan (1831–1880), abolitionist, Western pioneer and a founder of Colorado City
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Mary Tappan Wright
Mary Tappan Wright (1851–1916) was an American novelist"Wright, Mary Tappan" in ''The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge''. New York, The Encyclopedia American Corporation, v. 29, 1920, p. 570.Wallace, W. Stewart. ''A Dic ...
(née Tappan; 1851–1916), writer
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Mel Tappan
Mel Tappan (1933 – 1980, born Melrose H. Tappan III) was the editor of the newsletter ''Personal Survival ("P.S.") Letter'' and the books ''Survival Guns'' and ''Tappan on Survival''. Tappan was an influential leader of the Survivalist movement ...
(1933–1980), survivalist writer
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Samuel F. Tappan
Samuel Forster Tappan (June 29, 1831 – January 6, 1913) was an American journalist, military officer, abolitionist and a Native American rights activist. Appointed as a member of the Indian Peace Commission in 1867 to reach peace with the ...
(1831–1913), US Army officer, journalist, Native American advocate
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Stacey Tappan (born 1973), American lyric soprano
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Tappan Wright King
Tappan Wright King (born 1950) is an American editor and author in the field of fantasy fiction, best known for editing ''Twilight Zone literature#Magazines, The Twilight Zone Magazine'' and its
companion publication ''Night Cry'' in the late 19 ...
(born 1950), editor
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W. J. Tappan (fl. 1881), founder of the Ohio Valley Foundry Company, later renamed Tappan Stove Company
Places
United States
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Tappan, Ohio, an unincorporated community
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Tappan, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Lake Tappan, a reservoir on the Hackensack River
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Old Tappan, New Jersey
Old Tappan ( ) is a borough in northern Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 5,888, an increase of 138 (+2.4%) from the 2010 census count of 5,750, which in turn refl ...
, a town in Bergen County
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Tappan Lake
Tappan Lake, also known as Tappan Reservoir, is a reservoir in Harrison County, Ohio, United States.
The lake covers of water and of surrounding land, as part of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District. Normal pool elevation is above s ...
, a reservoir in Harrison County, Ohio
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Tappan, New York
Tappan ( ) is a Hamlet (New York), hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Orangetown, New York, United States. It is located northwest of Alpine, New Jersey, north of Northvale, New Jersey and Rockleigh, New Jersey, northeast of ...
, a hamlet in Rockland County
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Tappan Zee
The Tappan Zee (; also Tappan Sea or Tappaan Zee) is a natural widening of the Hudson River, about across at its widest, in southeastern New York (state), New York. It stretches about along the boundary between Rockland County, New York, Rockl ...
, widening of the Hudson River
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Tappan Zee Bridge (1955–2017)
The Governor Malcolm Wilson Tappan Zee Bridge, commonly known as the Tappan Zee Bridge, was a cantilever bridge in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. It was built from 1952 to 1955 to cross the Hudson River at one of its widest poin ...
, a former bridge at the Tappan Zee
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Tappan Zee Bridge (2017–present)
The Tappan Zee Bridge, officially named the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge after the Mario Cuomo, former New York governor, is a twin cable-stayed bridge spanning the Tappan Zee section of the Hudson River between Tarrytown and Nyack, New Yor ...
(Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge), the replacement for the 1955 bridge
Other
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Tappan (brand), a brand of stoves owned by Electrolux, founded by W. J. Tappan
See also
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