Tappan (disambiguation)

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Tappan may refer to:

People:

• Amos Tappan Akerman, former U.S. Attorney General
• Arthur Tappan, abolitionist
• Austin Tappan Wright, legal scholar and utopian novelist
• Benjamin Tappan, Ohio senator
• Clair S. Tappaan, California judge and Sierra Club president
• Edwin Tappan Adney, artist, writer
• Eli Todd Tappan, president of Kenyon College, 1868-1875
• Henry Philip Tappan, president, University of Michigan, 1852-1863
• James Camp Tappan, Confederate Army Brigadeer General
• Lewis Tappan, abolitionist, developer of credit reporting service
• Mary Tappan Wright, writer
• Mel Tappan, survivalist writer
• Robert Tappan Morris, Jr., professor at MIT, creator of the Morris Worm
• Samuel F. Tappan, journalist, Native American advocate.
• Stacey Tappan, American lyric soprano
• Tappan Wright King, editor
• W.J. Tappan founder of the Ohio Valley Foundry Company which was later renamed Tappan Stove Company.

Places:

• Lake Tappan, reservoir on the Hackensack River
• Old Tappan, New Jersey, town in Bergen County
• Tappan Lake, between Cadiz and Uhrichsville, Ohio [1]
• Tappan, New York, hamlet in Rockland County
• Tappan Zee, widening of the Hudson River
• Tappan Zee Bridge, bridge at the Tappan Zee
• Tappan Bridge, Michigan
• Tappan Township, Arkansas, in Phillips County

Companies:

• Tappan brand of stoves owned by Electrolux, founded by W.J. Tappan

Other:

• Tappan Indians of Rockland County
• Tappan Middle School