Biographical Information:
According to the 1880 US Census, De Witt was working as a physician in Clay, Florida. Family members were M. Louisa, wife, Hatti, age 16, Carolyn, age 14, William, age 8, and De Witt C., age 3.
De Witt had two daughters from his first marriage to Orphena Currier (died at the young age of 30), and two sons with his second wife, Maria Louise: William Devereux, who married Harriet Culver, and De Witt Clinton, Jr., about whom The Book of Chicagoans, a Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the City of Chicago, IL, 1905 recorded the following:
"TANNER, De Witt Clinton, patent lawyer; b. Chicago, Feb. 19, 1877; s. De Witt Clinton and Maria Louise (Nellegar) Tanner; early education in public schools; grad. Chicago Manual Training School; attended Chicago College of Law, 1898-9; Univ. of Michigan, LL.B., 1900; m. Geneva, Ill., June 16, 1903, Bonnie Lou Little; 1 son: Preston Barton. Admitted to bar by Supreme Court of Illinois, 1900; in 1901 joined George P. Barton in the present firm of Barton & Tanner. Mem. Chicago Bar Assn., Patent Law Assn., Western Soc. of Engineers. Republican. Club: Kenwood Country. Office: Monadnock Blk. Residence: 205 46th St."
Preston was born on March 16, 1904. On June 12, 1907, Bonnie Lou (Memorial# 176890311) gave birth to a daughter, Alice Hartmann Tanner, in Chicago. In the 1915 NJ State Census this family was living in New Jersey and had 4 children: Preston, Louisa, Alice and Catherine.
On April 21, 1886, De Witt's daughter, Corolyn C. Tanner, married Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. at Aurora, Kane County, Illinois. Following the untimely death of Mr. Bailey five years into their marriage, Corolyn remarried to John Kimberly Mumford on March 19th, 1895, with whom she had three daughters and a son.
On June 7, 1887, in Cook County, Illinois, De Witt's daughter, Harriet Mary Tanner, married Reginald Hargreaves Bulley (b. 3 Jun. 1855 in Liverpool), with whom she had 4 known children, Charles Reginald (b. 1888), Rachel, Carolyn (b. 1892) and Leonora (b. 1903). The family resided in Syracuse at the time of the 1910 and 1920 censuses.
Harriet had been a student of piano under Emil Liebling, attended Wellesey College and was an active suffragette. Her husband had been a chemical engineer and naturalist who died on January 27th 1930 in Cocoanut Grove, Florida. Reginald immigrated from New Brighton, England. He built the Halcomb Steelworks in Syracuse, installing the first electrical furnace in the U.S.
According to the 1880 US Census, De Witt was working as a physician in Clay, Florida. Family members were M. Louisa, wife, Hatti, age 16, Carolyn, age 14, William, age 8, and De Witt C., age 3.
De Witt had two daughters from his first marriage to Orphena Currier (died at the young age of 30), and two sons with his second wife, Maria Louise: William Devereux, who married Harriet Culver, and De Witt Clinton, Jr., about whom The Book of Chicagoans, a Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the City of Chicago, IL, 1905 recorded the following:
"TANNER, De Witt Clinton, patent lawyer; b. Chicago, Feb. 19, 1877; s. De Witt Clinton and Maria Louise (Nellegar) Tanner; early education in public schools; grad. Chicago Manual Training School; attended Chicago College of Law, 1898-9; Univ. of Michigan, LL.B., 1900; m. Geneva, Ill., June 16, 1903, Bonnie Lou Little; 1 son: Preston Barton. Admitted to bar by Supreme Court of Illinois, 1900; in 1901 joined George P. Barton in the present firm of Barton & Tanner. Mem. Chicago Bar Assn., Patent Law Assn., Western Soc. of Engineers. Republican. Club: Kenwood Country. Office: Monadnock Blk. Residence: 205 46th St."
Preston was born on March 16, 1904. On June 12, 1907, Bonnie Lou (Memorial# 176890311) gave birth to a daughter, Alice Hartmann Tanner, in Chicago. In the 1915 NJ State Census this family was living in New Jersey and had 4 children: Preston, Louisa, Alice and Catherine.
On April 21, 1886, De Witt's daughter, Corolyn C. Tanner, married Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. at Aurora, Kane County, Illinois. Following the untimely death of Mr. Bailey five years into their marriage, Corolyn remarried to John Kimberly Mumford on March 19th, 1895, with whom she had three daughters and a son.
On June 7, 1887, in Cook County, Illinois, De Witt's daughter, Harriet Mary Tanner, married Reginald Hargreaves Bulley (b. 3 Jun. 1855 in Liverpool), with whom she had 4 known children, Charles Reginald (b. 1888), Rachel, Carolyn (b. 1892) and Leonora (b. 1903). The family resided in Syracuse at the time of the 1910 and 1920 censuses.
Harriet had been a student of piano under Emil Liebling, attended Wellesey College and was an active suffragette. Her husband had been a chemical engineer and naturalist who died on January 27th 1930 in Cocoanut Grove, Florida. Reginald immigrated from New Brighton, England. He built the Halcomb Steelworks in Syracuse, installing the first electrical furnace in the U.S.
Biographical Information:
According to the 1880 US Census, De Witt was working as a physician in Clay, Florida. Family members were M. Louisa, wife, Hatti, age 16, Carolyn, age 14, William, age 8, and De Witt C., age 3.
De Witt had two daughters from his first marriage to Orphena Currier (died at the young age of 30), and two sons with his second wife, Maria Louise: William Devereux, who married Harriet Culver, and De Witt Clinton, Jr., about whom The Book of Chicagoans, a Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the City of Chicago, IL, 1905 recorded the following:
"TANNER, De Witt Clinton, patent lawyer; b. Chicago, Feb. 19, 1877; s. De Witt Clinton and Maria Louise (Nellegar) Tanner; early education in public schools; grad. Chicago Manual Training School; attended Chicago College of Law, 1898-9; Univ. of Michigan, LL.B., 1900; m. Geneva, Ill., June 16, 1903, Bonnie Lou Little; 1 son: Preston Barton. Admitted to bar by Supreme Court of Illinois, 1900; in 1901 joined George P. Barton in the present firm of Barton & Tanner. Mem. Chicago Bar Assn., Patent Law Assn., Western Soc. of Engineers. Republican. Club: Kenwood Country. Office: Monadnock Blk. Residence: 205 46th St."
Preston was born on March 16, 1904. On June 12, 1907, Bonnie Lou (Memorial# 176890311) gave birth to a daughter, Alice Hartmann Tanner, in Chicago. In the 1915 NJ State Census this family was living in New Jersey and had 4 children: Preston, Louisa, Alice and Catherine.
On April 21, 1886, De Witt's daughter, Corolyn C. Tanner, married Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. at Aurora, Kane County, Illinois. Following the untimely death of Mr. Bailey five years into their marriage, Corolyn remarried to John Kimberly Mumford on March 19th, 1895, with whom she had three daughters and a son.
On June 7, 1887, in Cook County, Illinois, De Witt's daughter, Harriet Mary Tanner, married Reginald Hargreaves Bulley (b. 3 Jun. 1855 in Liverpool), with whom she had 4 known children, Charles Reginald (b. 1888), Rachel, Carolyn (b. 1892) and Leonora (b. 1903). The family resided in Syracuse at the time of the 1910 and 1920 censuses.
Harriet had been a student of piano under Emil Liebling, attended Wellesey College and was an active suffragette. Her husband had been a chemical engineer and naturalist who died on January 27th 1930 in Cocoanut Grove, Florida. Reginald immigrated from New Brighton, England. He built the Halcomb Steelworks in Syracuse, installing the first electrical furnace in the U.S.
According to the 1880 US Census, De Witt was working as a physician in Clay, Florida. Family members were M. Louisa, wife, Hatti, age 16, Carolyn, age 14, William, age 8, and De Witt C., age 3.
De Witt had two daughters from his first marriage to Orphena Currier (died at the young age of 30), and two sons with his second wife, Maria Louise: William Devereux, who married Harriet Culver, and De Witt Clinton, Jr., about whom The Book of Chicagoans, a Biographical Dictionary of Leading Living Men and Women of the City of Chicago, IL, 1905 recorded the following:
"TANNER, De Witt Clinton, patent lawyer; b. Chicago, Feb. 19, 1877; s. De Witt Clinton and Maria Louise (Nellegar) Tanner; early education in public schools; grad. Chicago Manual Training School; attended Chicago College of Law, 1898-9; Univ. of Michigan, LL.B., 1900; m. Geneva, Ill., June 16, 1903, Bonnie Lou Little; 1 son: Preston Barton. Admitted to bar by Supreme Court of Illinois, 1900; in 1901 joined George P. Barton in the present firm of Barton & Tanner. Mem. Chicago Bar Assn., Patent Law Assn., Western Soc. of Engineers. Republican. Club: Kenwood Country. Office: Monadnock Blk. Residence: 205 46th St."
Preston was born on March 16, 1904. On June 12, 1907, Bonnie Lou (Memorial# 176890311) gave birth to a daughter, Alice Hartmann Tanner, in Chicago. In the 1915 NJ State Census this family was living in New Jersey and had 4 children: Preston, Louisa, Alice and Catherine.
On April 21, 1886, De Witt's daughter, Corolyn C. Tanner, married Joseph Mead Bailey, Jr. at Aurora, Kane County, Illinois. Following the untimely death of Mr. Bailey five years into their marriage, Corolyn remarried to John Kimberly Mumford on March 19th, 1895, with whom she had three daughters and a son.
On June 7, 1887, in Cook County, Illinois, De Witt's daughter, Harriet Mary Tanner, married Reginald Hargreaves Bulley (b. 3 Jun. 1855 in Liverpool), with whom she had 4 known children, Charles Reginald (b. 1888), Rachel, Carolyn (b. 1892) and Leonora (b. 1903). The family resided in Syracuse at the time of the 1910 and 1920 censuses.
Harriet had been a student of piano under Emil Liebling, attended Wellesey College and was an active suffragette. Her husband had been a chemical engineer and naturalist who died on January 27th 1930 in Cocoanut Grove, Florida. Reginald immigrated from New Brighton, England. He built the Halcomb Steelworks in Syracuse, installing the first electrical furnace in the U.S.
Gravesite Details
DeWitt is listed on the family headstone at Medusa Cemetery, Medusa, Albany County, New York, USA, however, there is no grave marker with his name there. See the Cenotaph (Memorial)# 102637922
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