Tallmon, George W.

TALLMON, CARHART

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Date: 5/2/2012 at 11:05:29

1880 History of Poweshiek County Iowa
Page 929
Grinnell Township

TALLMON, GEORGE W.--School teacher. Was born in the county of Chautauqua, in the State of New York, on the 12th day of October, 1837. While he was yet very young his parents removed to Ohio, and settled in Trumbull county, where he continued to live until he was about nineteen years of age, where he attended the common schools of the country, and acquired an excellent common school education. He attended a select school at Salem for one year, and then attended norman school in Stark county, under Mr. A. Holbrook. the noted teacher in Ohio. Then returned to New York and taught his first school, near Fredonia. In the year 1856 he came to Iowa and settled near Davenport, where he attended two years at the Iowa College, then located at that place, and when the institution was removed to this place he went to Beloit, Michigan, and entered school where he remained two years and then returned to Davenport, and took charge of the East Davenport Ward school, which position he held when the War of the Rebellion broke out. He enlisted in company E., Twentieth Iowa infantry, with which regiment he was nearly two years, and was engaged in the battle of Prairie Grove, the Seige of Vicksburg, and many small engagements. At the end of two years he was promoted to first lieutenant in the Seventy-third United States infantry, colored, in which regiment he remained until the close of the war when he resigned. During the most of the latter year he was on detached service. Was the assistant superintendent of negro labor at Baltimore where he had at times the charge of several thousand blacks. He was married in 1872, to Miss Susan Carhart, who is a lady of refinement and culture. She was born in Gilderland, Albany county, New York, where she continued to reside until she was thirteen years of age when her parents removed to Iowa. She acquired a good English education in the common schools and in Cornell University at Mount Vernon. While her husband was in the South, she went to him and was engaged by the United States government to teach among the colored people at Baton Rouge where she continued to labor for six or eight months. At the close of the war they returned to their old home, near Davenport, and purchased a farm where they lived about three years, when they sold out and came to Jasper county, and purchased a farm which he now (1880) owns. But for the last four or five years Mrs. Tallmon has been engaged in teaching, a part of the time in the country, but most of the time in the graded school in the city.