Daniel F. Tiemann

Daniel Fawcett Tiemann (January 9, 1805 – June 29, 1899)[1] was Mayor of New York City from 1858 to 1860. He was a founding trustee of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.[2]

Life

Tiemann was an industrialist, who lived in Manhattanville where he owned D.F. Tiemann & Company Paint & Color Works which manufactured pigments and paints. This business had been started originally in 1804 by his father, I. Anthony Tiemann, with his brother, Julius William Tiemann, and Nicholas Stippel. His father retired from the business in 1839.[3] The Tiemann laboratory and factory was originally located on 23rd Street and Fourth Avenue in New York City, near Madison Square Park, later relocating uptown to Manhattanville in 1832.[3]

He was educated in a private seminary and at age thirteen began an apprenticeship in the drugstore of H.M. Schiefflin & Co., on Pearl Street, until 1824, when he joined his father's company. He became a partner in the company in 1826.[3]

Tiemann was a member of the New York State Senate (8th D.) in 1872 and 1873.

His paternal uncle, Julius William Tiemann, was one of the founding partners in the D.F. Tiemann company, and father of Hermann Newell Tiemann (1863–1957), who was a commercial photographer in New York City.[3][4]

D.F. Tiemann was nephew-in-law of Peter Cooper, the American industrialist and inventor.[5] In 1826, he had married Martha Clowes, Cooper's niece, and they had three sons and three daughters.[3] Tiemann Place, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, is named for him.

References

  1. ↑ Meredith, Roy, The world of Mathew Brady: portraits of the Civil War period, Brooke House Publishers, 1976. Cf. p.69
  2. ↑ Nevins, Allan (1935). Abram S. Hewitt: with some account of Peter Cooper. Harper & brothers. p. 175.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Baptista, Robert J., "D.F. Tiemann & Co. Color Works, Manhattanville, New York City", Colorants Industry History, July 7, 2009
  4. ↑ Lewis, Jennifer, "Guide to the H.N. Tiemann & Co. Photograph Collection (1880-1916)", New-York Historical Society, New York University Libraries, Publisher. 2002.
  5. ↑ Thomas C. McCarthy. "Ch. 2 of 7 - C. Godfrey Gunther: NYC Jails Governor & Civil War Mayor".

Further reading

Political offices
Preceded by
Fernando Wood		 Mayor of New York City
1858–1860 		Succeeded by
Fernando Wood
New York State Senate
Preceded by
Henry W. Genet		 New York State Senate
8th District
1872–1873 		Succeeded by
Hugh H. Moore
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