William Smith Tallmadge
(1785-1822)
BIRTH
October 20, 1785
PLACE
DEATH
August 18, 1822
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Benjamin Tallmadge
(1754-1835)
MOTHER
Mary Floyd Tallmadge
(1764-1805)
SISTER
Maria Tallmadge Cushman
(1790-1878)
SISTER
Harriet Tallmadge Delafield
(1797-1856)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
William Smith Tallmadge (1785–1822) was Benjamin Tallmadge and Mary Floyd’s eldest son, of Litchfield, Connecticut. Named for an uncle who died in a British prison, he represented the family business B. Tallmadge & Co. in New York. During the War of 1812 he served as lieutenant-colonel of the 46th U.S. Infantry. He died unmarried at Leicester, formerly Moscow, New York, aged thirty-seven. Litchfield’s historical society preserves portraits and documents his work.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of William Smith Tallmadge’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for William Smith Tallmadge is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
William Smith Tallmadge died on Aug 18, 1822. William Smith Tallmadge was Benjamin Tallmadge and Mary Floyd’s eldest son, of Litchfield, Connecticut. Named for an uncle who died in a British prison, he represented the family business B. Tallmadge & Co. in New York. During the War of 1812 he served as lieutenant-colonel of the 46th U.S. Infantry. He died unmarried at Leicester, formerly Moscow, New York, aged thirty-seven. Litchfield’s historical society preserves portraits and documents his work. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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