Tallmadge / Talmadge Elwell

Parents were John Elwell and Mary Elwell (born Tallmadge), per Bramley Web Site, managed by Leslie Bramley, on MyHeritage. Siblings: William Elwell, Hannah Mary Giltner (born Elwell).

Biographical sketch in Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi to the Continental Divide, including Tallmadge Elwell's 1853 display ad for his daguerrotype gallery (a venture that never made money).

Mary Tallmadge, daughter of Joel Tallmadge and Phoebe Potter, married John Elwell on September 1, 1827. She died May 12, 1837 after having three children. Mary is #544 in The Talmadge, Tallmadge and Talmage genealogy; being the descendants of Thomas Talmadge of Lynn, Massachusetts, online

Tallmadge Elwell was proprietor of Elwell's Daguerrean Gallery in Minneapolis from about 1853.

Tallmadge Elwell on FindAGrave:

• BIRTH 18 Jul 1828, Candor, Tioga County, New York, USA
• DEATH 4 Feb 1903 (aged 74), Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
• BURIAL Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis

Seven of their eight children are on FindAGrave:

• James Tallmadge Elwell 1855–1933
• George Herbert Elwell 1856–1926
• John Foyle Elwell 1859–1929
• Susie [Isabel] Elwell Rickard 1860–1928
• Marie [Mattie] Laura Elwell Noyes 1864–1914
• Jessie Helen Campbell Elwell Frost 1869–1941
• Talmadge Robert Elwell 1873–1944
• {Mary Whitmore, married to Theodore N[orton] Spaulding, living at Pasadena, Calif. was the 8th child; see below}

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From a biography of Talmadge's son George Herbert Elwell on USGenWeb/Minnesota

GEORGE H. ELWELL (George Herbert Elwell) - Vol III, pg 258-262. ... GHE was born November 25, 1856, in what was then the village of St. Anthony. He is a son of Talmadge and Margaret (Miller) Elwell, who were natives of the state of New York, and both came to Minnesota in 1852. Mrs. Elwell and her sister engaged in the millinery business at Stillwater from 1852 until 1854, when in a double wedding Margaret Miller became the wife of Talmadge Elwell and her sister the wife of John P. Furber of Cottage Grove, Minnesota, the wedding ceremony being performed by the Rev. David Secomb in the First Congregational church. Talmadge Elwell was a daguerreotyper for some years and made a number of pictures which appear in the historic section of these volumes. After devoting several years to the art he started a town site at Granite City, in Morrison county, in 1855 and there resided until 1862. The indications for success were most promising until that year, when the uprising of the Sioux and Chippewa Indians made it unsafe to remain on the frontier and Mr. Elwell abandoned his project. He then removed to Little Falls and after two years took up his abode in St. Cloud, Minnesota, where a similar period was passed, during which time he was collector of internal revenue in the employ of the government. In 1865 he became a resident of Cottage Grove, Washington county, Minnesota, where he continued until 1872 and then removed to Minneapolis, where he and his wife spent their remaining days, Mrs. Elwell passing away on the 19th of March, 1894, while Mr. Elwell survived until February 7, 1903. With his return to this city he engaged in the manufacture of spring beds, being the pioneer in this field of industry in the Northwest. Both he and his wife were members of the First Congregational church, in which they were married.

They reared a family of eight children:

1. James T., who represented the thirty-ninth district in the state senate of Minnesota. He was a founder of the Como neighborhood in Minneapolis.
2. George Herbert Elwell b. 1856-d. 1926
3. John F., of Wichita, Kansas
4. Rev. Robert T. (Talmadge Robert), who is a Congregational minister in Seattle, Washington
5. Susie Isabel, the wife of C. T. Rickard, proprietor of the Minneapolis School of Business;
6. Mary Whitmore, the wife of Theodore N. Spaulding, living at Pasadena, California. She graduated the Univ. of Minn. in 1886 per University of Minnesota ALUMNI RECORD by Classes and Alphabetically by Colleges, 1873-1900. Theodore N[orton] Spaulding, b. 1852, died April 21, 1932 in California (California Death Index). His full name appears in California Voter Registrations.
7. Mattie Laura, the deceased wife of Dr. William Noyes, dean of chemistry in the University of Illinois
8. Jessie Helen Campbell, the wife of Dr. William Frost, professor of bacteriology in the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

George H. Elwell took up the profession of teaching, serving as principal of the public school at Appleton, Minnesota, from 1879 until 1882. In March of the latter year he took charge of the business of the Minneapolis Furniture Company, of which he was one of the incorporators, and became the first secretary and manager. The following year he was elected to the presidency and has since remained the executive head of the company. The output consists of bedroom furniture and Elwell kitchen cabinets, the latter a very useful article now extensively sold...Mr. G.H. Elwell was united in marriage to Miss Belle Horn, who had been one of his pupils in school. They have become the parents of five children:

1. Harold Manford Elwell (1883-1941), who is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and is now secretary of the Minneapolis Furniture Company
2. Georgia Belle, who is a graduate of the Columbia Teachers' College, taking a special course in domestic science and art, which she has taught in the East high school, and who is now supervisor of that course in the State high school, and was state supervisor of Vocational Home Economics while working in Idaho # Florence, now the wife of A. R. Compton of Webster, South Dakota
3. Susie Marie, who was graduated from the East high school and the State Teachers College of Duluth and is now kindergarten teacher in Minneapolis
4. George Herbert Elwell, Jr., who also completed his studies in the East high school and for one year attended the University of Minnesota. He has adopted music as his profession and is now in France...{Herbert Elwell eventually went to Cleveland's Institute of Music and Oberlin College; he died in Cleveland}.