Tannatt, Thomas, 1833-1913

found: Jackson, B.K. Domesticating the West, c2005:ECIP galley (Thomas Tannatt; Thomas Redding Tannatt; b. Sept. 27, 1833, at Verplanck Point, near the town of Peekskill, N.Y.; d. Dec. 20, 1913, at the age of eighty, in Spokane, Wash.)

found: Ancestry (website), viewed Nov.1, 2021:Thomas Redding Tannatt (1833 - 1913) (Born in Verplank Point, Hudson River, NY on September 27 1833 to James Sullivan Tannatt and Mary C Gilmore ( Gilmour ). Thomas Redding Tannatt married Elizabeth Forster Tappan and had 2 children. He passed away on December 20 1913 in Spokane, Spokane, Washington, USA.) - https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/thomas-redding-tannatt-24-dmvtf

found: Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (website), viewed Nov.1, 2021:Guide to the Tannatt Family Papers 1813-1919, Cage 65 (Thomas R. Tannatt graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1858 and rose to the rank of Brevet-General in the United States Army in 1864. A civil engineer by profession, Tannatt was the manager of several Colorado mines in the years after the Civil War, but was unable to continue strenuous activities because of a war disability. He returned to the East and became associated with the Henry Villard financial and railroad interests. As the manager of the Villard-owned Oregon Improvement Company, Tannatt located in Walla Walla in the later 1870's, where he managed the moves which blocked the extension of the Northern Pacific to the Pacific Coast. He was also the general land agent for development of railroad lands of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Co. Tannatt was mayor of Walla Walla for two terms in the early 1880s and was a contender for appointment as Territorial Governor in 1885. Recurring health problems forced Tannatt into semi-retirement in 1887 and he moved to Farmington, Washington, a town he had earlier platted. There he was an orchardist, land developer, hardware merchant (with a store at Palouse) and silent partner in a brick works in Spokane. He was also a Regent of Washington State University from 1893-1901.) - http://ntserver1.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg65.htm