Joseph Ware Tapp 1890s
So, I don't have much information for this decade. There was a census taken in 1890, but there was a major fire that took out almost all of that census information.
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1890
Federal Census taken but that information is burned up
In Other News: Battle of Wounded Knee happens. Oklahoma organizes as a territory, while Idaho becomes the 43rd state and Wyoming is the 44th state (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
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| 1895_clip_art__medical__swamp_root |
1891
Daughter Sadie Esther Tapp is born.I don't have an primary evidence of her birth. What I do have are five censuses, Iowa State Census of 1905 and Social Security death index. Her Ancestry Profile is here. Her Find a Grave memorial created by ZBonnie in 2006 is here.
In other news: -- Mormon prophesy of coming of the Lord by 1891 is unfulfilled (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
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1892
Birth of son Harry Bushrod Tapp.Once again, no primary source for this birth date and place. No birth certificate. However, again, I have five Federal censuses, Iowa State census of 1905, Social Security Death Index, and Draft records for World War I and World War II. Those are secondary sources. There is also a tertiary source, which would be Find A Grave. His Ancestry profile is here. His Find a Grave memorial created by Charles Bast (Tapp) is found here.
Death of father Bushrod Tapp
He died 16 April 1893 in Toulon, Stark, Illinois. Some records show he died in Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois. He is also buried in Toulon Cemetery, Toulon, Stark County, Illinois. His Find a Grave memorial can be found here. This is an orphaned memorial, having been added by Alice Wehmhoener. I have requested management of this memorial. His Ancestry profile is here.
Death of mother Mary Jane Essex Tapp.
The only source I have for this death is Find a Grave. She died 14 August 1892, and is buried in Toulon Cemetery, Toulon, Stark County, Illinois. Her Find a Grave memorial, added by Alice Wehmhoener in 2008, is here. [As of this date (November 2019) it is an orphaned memorial, and I have requested to maintain it, since she is my direct line ancestor.] Her Ancestry Profile is here.
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| 1896 Clip Art, Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour |
Grover Cleveland elected (again) as the 24th President of the United States.
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| 1893 Grover Cleveland Portrait (Wikipedia -- Cleveland 2018) |
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| 1893 Grover Cleveland, 24th President (Wikipedia -- Cleveland 2018) |
Quote: -- "I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind" -- Grover Cleveland (Cleveland, 2018).
In other news: -- United States is in financial panic and depression lasting four years. New Zealand is the first to grant women the right to vote; Movies beome a thing; and Nikola Tesla (Not Marconi) invents Radio (OurTimelines.com).
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| 1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1 (The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896) |
1894
Birth of daughter Clara Edna Tapp, 1 July 1894 in Penn, Stark County, Illinois.
Once again, no primary source, but five Federal censuses, one Iowa State census of 1905, and tertiary source in Find a Grave. Her Ancestry profile is here.
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| 1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1 (The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896) |
1895
Birth of daughter Olive Eleanor Tapp.
Born 18 November 1895 in Wyoming, Stark County, Illinois. Same secondary sources, but there is also Social Security Death Index, Marriage record, and Wisconsin Death Index. Her Ancestry profile is here.
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| 1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1 (The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896) |
1896
William McKinley campaign poster (Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018)
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| 1896 William McKinley Campaign poster Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018) |
In other news: -- Supreme court approves separate but equal segregation; Utah enters the Union as the 45th state (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
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| 1896, Clip Art, Female Figure 1 (The Inter Ocean, Chicago, Illinois, 1896) |
1897
William McKinley becomes the 25th President of the United States
He served from 4 March 1897 until his assassination six months into his second term. He was the last president to have served in the Civil War, and the only one to have started that war as an enlisted soldier (Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018).
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| 1897 William McKinley, 25th President (Wikipedia -- McKinley, 2018) |
Quote: -- "In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest" -- William McKinley (McKinley, 2018)
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Historical Insight -- Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter
Joseph Ware Tapp of La Prairie, Illinois may have eargerly read the daily news hoping to hear more about Dr. Barnum Brown's fantastic fossil discoveries in 1900.
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| Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter -- Historical Insights (3) 1911. Credit: AMNH/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018) |
Dr Brown's worldwide travels gave him important geographic information, which he provided to the U.S. government during World War II. Dr Brown's work made him a kind of scientific celebrity, and people flosked to see both him and the fossils he had unearthed (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019).
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| 1899 Clip Art, Buildings, The Chicago Federal Building as it will appear |
1899
Birth of daughter Grace Elizabeth Tapp
Again, no primary source such as birth certificate. But we have secondary sources in Federal censuses, Iowa State census of 1905, Social Security Death Index and Florida Death Index. There are also other tertiary sources, such as Newspaper obituary, and Find a Grave. Her Ancestry profile is here. |
| 1899 Clip Art, President William McKinley |
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Resources
Ancestry Historical Insights. (2018). Dr Barnum Brown, Fossil Hunter. Retrieved from Ancestry.com: Ancestry.com
Cleveland, G. (2018, December). Grover Cleveland Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/grover_cleveland
McKinley, W. (2018, December). William McKinley Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/william_mckinley
McKinley, W. (2018, December). William McKinley Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/william_mckinley
The Rock Island Argus and Daily Union, Rock Island, Illinois. (1896, November 19). 1896 Clip Art, Food, Van Camp's Boston Baked Pork and Beans. Retrieved March 29, 2017, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com
Wikipedia -- Cleveland. (2018, December). Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland
Wikipedia -- McKinley. (2018, December). William
McKinley, 25th President. Retrieved from Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley
