Tappan Eustis Francis
Tappan Eustis Francis was born on August 28, 1823, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel and Eliza Francis. His father was a professor and Unitarian minister. He graduated from Harvard University in 1844, and he received a medical degree a few years later. He worked as a doctor in Roxbury, Massachusetts, before moving to Newton, Massachusetts, and then to Brookline, Massachusetts.
He married Helen Shurtleff on May 9, 1855, and they had at least four children: Helen, born around 1856; Nathaniel, born around 1859; George, born around 1861; and Carleton, born around 1866. By 1860, he owned $13,000 of real estate and $2,000 of personal property. A decade later, his wealth had grown to $27,500 of real estate and $2,500 of personal property.
According to an early biographer, he “practised [sic] medicine in the town [of Brookline] for more than forty years without a single day’s vacation.” His wife died in 1898, and he died of an “Enlarged Prostate gland” in Brookline on March 20, 1909.
Image: Tappan E. Francis (A History of Brookline, Massachusetts)
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| (4836) | Francis, Tappan Eustis | 1823-08-28 | 1909-03-20 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Civilian
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- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (13390) [writer] ~ Tappan E. Francis to Edward A. Wild, 17 October 1848
Places - Records: 2
SOURCES
1860, 1870, 1880, and 1900 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Marriage Records, 1840-1915, available from Ancestry.com; Massachusetts Death Records, 1841-1915, available from Ancestry.com; Boston Evening Transcript, 20 March 1909; A History of Brookline, Massachusetts (Brookline, MA: The Brookline Press Company, 1906)
