Tanner, Herbert Battles M.D.

Other Events:

• Book: History of Kaukauna's Revolutionary War hero
• Book: Tanner, Herbert Battle FAMILY Papers
• Book: Tanner, Herbert Battle Papers
• Education - College/University: Abt 1878; Indiana Medical College
• 1880 Census: 1880, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA
• Moved: Abt Jul 1880, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Biography: 1894; Outagamie County Pioneers Page 286
• Political Office: Between 1894 and 1896, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; Mayor of Kaukauna
• News Mention: 3 May 1895; Kaukauna Times
• Biography: 1897
• 1900 Census: 1900, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• 1905 State Census: 1905, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• 1910 Census: 1910, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Biography: 1931; His own biography from the pages of his book The History of the Streets of Kaukauna
• Book: 1931; History of the Streets of Kaukauna
• Obituary: 5 Dec 1933; Kaukauna Times
• Book: 1985; Glimpses of its Past

Notes:

Book:
Located at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives Division. 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706. MAD 1V/Mss Box 594-596; Call No. Micro 953; Format 16 reels of microfilm (35mm)

Papers of Herbert Battles Tanner, a physician, businessman, and civic activist in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, and Eastland, Texas, and papers by or about relatives of Tanner and his wife Mary. Papers on Mary's ancestors include letters of families prominent in early Wisconsin history such as the Boyd, Lawe, Rankin, and Grignon families, and letters between Mrs. John Quincy Adams and her sister, Harriet Johnson Boyd. The collection documents the many activities of Herbert Battles Tanner such as his participation in Kaukauna church and Masonic affairs, addresses to medical societies, local Republican political activities in both Kaukauna (1890s) and Eastland (1920s), and business ventures. Operation of the Rio Tamasopo Sugar Company in Mexico involved Tanner in the economic impact of the Mexican Revolution and U.S. relations with Mexico. Tanner's historical writings on Kaukauna are also represented in the collection as are travel observations including comments on the 1877 St. Louis railroad strike. The family papers consist primarily of genealogical data gathered by Tanner and two of his children, Herbert Johnson Tanner and Blanche Lawe Tanner, and of photographs and letters written by ancesters. This collection is available only on microfilm.

Book:
Located at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives Division. 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706. MAD 4 /17/G1-3; Call No. Wis Mss DJ; Format 6.0 c.f. (26 archives boxes and 1 volume)

Papers of Dr. Tanner of Kaukauna, Wis., consisting of local history materials, records of business affairs in Wisconsin and Mexico, correspondence while state supervisor of illuminating oils, 1894-1900, and monthly reports of subordinate district oil inspectors, 1895-1897. The latter correspondence concerns appointments of these inspectors, and the gubernatorial campaigns of 1894 through 1900, and throws light on the relations between Tanner's office and the Standard Oil Company. There is correspondence and printed material, 1901-1908, concerning the management of the Rio Tamasopo Sugar Company in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, a company in which Tanner and a brother were financially interested, and correspondence, bills, and receipts, 1899-1903, connected with Tanner's operation of a Kaukauna drug store. Correspondence and miscellaneous material tell of Tanner's activities as Kaukauna's first health officer; as secretary of the Fox River Valley Medical Association; as a physician, with emphasis on his services as local representative of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad and other corporations; as mayor of Kaukauna, 1888-1896; as an investor in the Kaukauna Electric Light Company; as an active member of the South Kaukauna Congregational Church; of his candidacy for Congress in 1900; and of his work on local history, particularly the career of Captain Hendrick Aupaumut, his own genealogy, and the Stockbridge and Menominee Indians. Filed with the papers is a box containing documents from the office of a notary public near Mexico City dealing with lawsuits, 1739-1865; registers of electors in Kaukauna in 1896; and a ledger, 1894-1897, of a firm of Kaukauna druggists.

1880 Census:
Ford Tanner 57
Mary A. Tanner 49
Herbert Tanner 21
Walter Tanner 16
Harry Tanner 14
Stella Tanner 11

Name: Herbert Tanner
Home in 1880: Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Age: 21
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1859
Birthplace: Wisconsin
Relation to Head of Household: Son
Father's Name: Ford
Father's birthplace: New York
Mother's Name: Mary A.
Mother's birthplace: Massachusetts
Neighbors: View others on page
Occupation: Salesman, Baskets
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Gender: Male

News Mention:
Dr. H.B. Tanner was reelected as mayor of Kaukauna on Tuesday, narrowly defeating challenger and former mayor Luther Lindauer. Tanner's margin of victory was 54 votes.

Biography:
TANNER, Herbert Battles, M. D., a resident of Kaukauna, was born in White-water, Wisconsin, February 13th, 1859, the son of Ford Tanner, now retired and living in Appleton. The first of the Tanners in this country came to Rhode Island from Wales, and thence their descendants spread throughout the country. Dr. Tanner's great-grandfather served as a private in the Revolutionary army, and his grandfather, Dr. Cuyler Tanner, was a surgeon in the war of 1812-14. The maiden name of Dr. Tanner's mother was Mary A. Battles, and her ancestors settled in Bridgewater, Mass., about 1725, and many of their descendants still remain in Massachusetts. Dr. Tanner's grandfather on his mother's side, Dr. J. D. Battles, was a merchant in Boston from 1821 to 1845, when he came west, settling in Griggsville, Illinois. After that he studied medicine and practiced there for over forty years, dying at the age of ninety.
In 1864 H. B. Tanner's parents removed from Whitewater to La Fayette, Ind., where the boy received his elementary education in the common schools. In 1872 the family left La Fayette and came to Chicago, where young Tanner continued his education in the public schools, and in a business college. After leaving school he spent some time as a clerk, and, in 1876, went to Philadelphia to see the Centennial Exposition and as agent of a Chicago firm in which his father was interested. At about this time his father moved to Indianapolis, Ind., and, upon the advice of his grandfather, Dr. Battles, he entered the Indiana Medical College, and graduated in the class of 1878. He did post-graduate work in the hospitals of New York and Philadelphia. Returning to Chicago, he practiced there for a time, but in July, 1880, he became a resident of Kaukauna, his present home.
He is a member of the American Medical association; the National Association of Railway Surgeons; the Wisconsin State Medical society, of which he was secretary of committee on laryngology in 1890, chairman of the committee on obstetrics in 1892, and materia medica in 1889, member of the committee on practice in 1893, and in 1895 secretary of the committee on obstetrics; served five terms as secretary and treasurer of the Fox River Valley society, and is now its president; member of the Medico-Legal society of New York; was city physician from 1886 to 1893. He has served three years as secretary of the south side school board; was elected in 1894 the first Republican mayor of Kaukauna, and re-elected for a second term. He was a member of the pension examining board in 1890-93. In 1895 Gov. Upham appointed him state supervisor of inspectors of illuminating oils for a term of two years. He was reappointed to the same office by Gov. Scofield. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery, and of the Congregational church. He is now serving his third year as treasurer of Kaukauna Lodge, I. O. O. F.
Dr. Tanner was married September, 1st, 1881, to Miss Mary G. M., daughter of James M. and Maria M. (Lawe) Boyd; granddaughter of Col. George and Harriett (Johnson) Boyd; and great-granddaughter of Joshua Johnson, a pioneer of Maryland and first United States consul at London, England. Col. George Boyd was a brother-in-law of President John Quincy Adams, and a life-long government official, and was a bearer of dispatches to Ghent at the time of the treaty in 1814. They have three sons and a daughter. In politics Dr. Tanner is an active Republican, having been secretary of the Kaukauna Republican club for eight years and its president nine years. The latter position he still holds. He is also a member of the county committee.

From; Men of Progress. WISCONSIN. A SELECTED LIST OF BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND PORTRAITS OF THE LEADERS IN BUSINESS, PROFESSIONAL AND OFFICIAL LIFE.
TOGETHER WITH SHORT NOTES ON THE HISTORY AND CHARACTER OF WISCONSIN. EDITED BY ANDREW JACKSON ALKENS AND LEWIS A. PROCTOR, MILWAUKEE:
The Evening Wisconsin Company. 1897.

1900 Census:
H B Tanner 41
Mary Tanner 40
Kinneth Tanner 16
Blanch Tanner 15
Harold Tanner 12
Herbert Tanner 6
Minnie Bentrock 21
Edward Mier 24

1905 State Census:
Herbert Tanner 45
Mary Tanner 45
Harold Tanner 19
Herbert Tanner 10
Anna Vandensen 18

1910 Census:
Herbert B Tanner 51
Mary Tanner 50
Blanch Tanner 25
Herbert Tanner 16

Obituary:
Tanner Rites Held At Eastland Dr. H. B. Tanner Kaukauna Times 12/12/1933 1 Obituary/News
Dr. H. B. Tanner Dies At Texas Home Dr. H. B. Tanner Kaukauna Times 12/05/1933 1 Obituary

Book:
OCLC Number:12900645
Notes:Cover title.
Reprint of works originally published 1891-1952.
Description:104, 108 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Contents:The lion of the Fox River Valley --
History of the streets of Kaukauna / compiled by H.B. Tanner --
Early history of Kaukauna / Mel A. Raught --
History of Kaukauna's Revolutionary War hero / by H.B. Tanner.

Herbert married Boyd, Mary G. M. 1 Sep 1881, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA. Mary (daughter of Boyd, Lieut. James M. and Lawe, Maria) was born 19 Sep 1859, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA; died 12 Oct 1938, Eastland, Eastland, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Namesake: Aft 1883; Kenneth Street in Kaukauna is named for him.
• Education - High School: 1900, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
• Book: Bef 1965; Tanner, Kenneth Papers
• Obituary: 10 Nov 1965; Kaukauna Times

Notes:

Education - High School:
Kaukauna High School Class of 1900

Book:
Located at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Archives Division. 816 State Street, Madison, WI 53706; MAD 3 /15/C2-3; Call No. Mss 430; Format 2.4 c.f. (6 archives boxes)

Personal, business, and family papers of Kenneth Boyd Tanner, a sugar plantation manager in San Luis Potosi, Mexico before World War I, then an insurance businessman and civic leader in Eastland, Texas. Included are papers concerning several family members as well. Correspondence concerns Tanner's experiences as a student at the University of Wisconsin (1900-1904), as an officer candidate in Kentucky during World War I, and as a Republican Party leader in Eastland in the 1950s. Letters written while managing the Rio Tamasopo Sugar Company plantation owned by his family deal with the problems caused by the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and later political turmoil. Family letters concern health, mutual acquaintances, events in Kaukauna, Wis. where Tanner was born, and experiences of his daughter, Dolores Tanner Vachliotis, while with the Hedgerow Theater in Pennsylvania in the 1940s and '50s.Also present are genealogies of the Lawe, Boyd, Battles, Ford, and Tanner families; writings by Tanner's father, Herbert Battles Tanner; and information on a distant relative, Father Charles Francis de Vivaldi.

Obituary:
Funeral services for Kenneth Tanner, age 82, were held in Eastland Texas, Sunday, November 7. Mr. Tanner was born July 20, 1883 in Kaukauna and came to Eastland in 1919 after serving in World War I. Mr. Tanner is the son of Kaukauna pioneer physician and surgeon, Dr. H.B. Tanner, who came to Kaukauna at the age of 21 in 1880 and was active in many of the beginnings of the city.

Kenneth married Alter, Bertha Aft 1907. Bertha was born Abt 1891, , , Iowa, USA; died Aft 1930. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Education - High School: 1901, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA

Notes:

Education - High School:
Kaukauna High School Class of 1901

Other Events:

• Education - High School: 1906, Kaukauna, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA

Notes:

Education - High School:
Kaukauna High School Class of 1906

Notes:

Boy Scouts Win 4th Quadrant Herbert Tanner Kaukauna Times 5/08/1924 1 Obituary/History of Kaukauna Area

Other Events:

• Military Service: Bef 16 Sep 1942
• Death Record - Civil: 16 Sep 1942

Notes:

Military Service:
Name:Kenneth Boyd Tanner Junior
Date of Birth:abt 1917
Date of Death:16 Sep 1942
Place of Death:Canada
Age at Death:25

Death Record - Civil:
Name:Kenneth Boyd Tanner Junior
Date of Birth:abt 1917
Date of Death:16 Sep 1942
Place of Death:Canada
Age at Death:25