E. W. Tallman

E. W. TALLMAN, M. D. A physician and surgeon at Gaylord, Kansas, where he has been in active practice since 1905, Doctor Tallman brought to his profession a thorough education and exceptional qualifications for his chosen work. He has spent most of his life in Kansas, his father having been a pioneer homesteader in Osborne County.

Doctor Tallman was born at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, April 12, 1876. His paternal ancestors came from England to Virginia in colonial times. His grandfather, a native of Virginia, served in the War of 1812, and a number of years later moved to Iowa and died at Mount Pleasant in that state. Benjamin Tallman, father of Doctor Tallman, is now living retired at the venerable age of eighty-five at Downs, Kansas. He was born in Ohio in 1833, and spent a number of years at Middleburn, West Virginia, where he married, and where he was engaged in the sawmill and lumber business. About 1858 he went west and developed a tract of raw land into a good farm near Mount Pleasant, Iowa. From there he removed to Downs, Kansas, in 1879, and he still owns the quarter section which he homesteaded in that vicinity. He is a democrat and a member of the United Brethren Church.

Benjamin Tallman married Mary Carroll, who was born at Middleburn, West Virginia, in 1835, George, the oldest of their children, was a farmer and died at Downs, Kansas, in 1899. Eva is the wife of George Ingram, a hardware merchant at Beloit, Kansas. Frank is a railroad man living at Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Mollie is the wife of Bert Fisher, who is employed by a bottling works at Waukesha, Wisconsin. Preston died at the age of five years. Dora, a son, is a farmer near Downs. Della married Cole Hughes and they live on a farm south of Downs.

The eighth and youngest of the children is Doctor Tallman, who came to Kansas with his parents when three years old. He attended the rural schools of Osborne County, and went back to Iowa to finish his literary education, graduating from Howe's Academy at Mount Pleasant in 1899. After some experience as a practical farmer he entered the medical department of the University of St. Louis and received his M. D. degree in 1905. The same year he practiced four months at Codell, Kansas, but, in the fall of 1905, came to Gaylord, where gratifying success has attended his efforts and labors as a physician and surgeon. He owns a good home at Gaylord and in various ways has identified himself with the welfare of the community, At one time he served as justice of the peace. He is a democrat.

May 6, 1906, at Osborne, he married Miss Catherine Garrett, daughter of Richard and Mary Garrett, the latter still living on the home farm near Downs. Her father was one of the early farmers in Osborne County. Doctor and Mrs. Tallman have four children: Kenneth, born April 18, 1907; Francis, born December 15, 1908; Benjamin, born September 16, 1910; and Paul, born July 4, 1916.