Henry Tammen Biography


	This biography appears on pages 749-750 in "History of Dakota Territory" 
	by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was scanned, 
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				HENRY TAMMEN. 

	Henry Tammen is one of the alert, energetic and wide-awake 
business men and mere chants of Yankton and his name is well known in 
financial circles. He is a native of Germany, born May 5, 1859, and is 
the third in order of birth in a family of five children whose parents 
were Heinrich C. and Marie (Kirchoff) Tammen, both of whom are 
deceased. The father followed teaching throughout his entire business 
career in his native land. 

	Henry Tammen received his education in Germany and there remained 
to the age of nineteen years, when, venturing where opportunity led the 
way, he emigrated to America and for four years was engaged in the 
manufacture of confectionery at Washington, D. C. In 1883 he arrived in 
Yankton, South Dakota, and his first business venture here was in the 
same line of trade but later he engaged in the grocery and dry-goods 
business, in which he has continued to the present time, with growing 
success. He carries a well selected line of goods, studies the needs 
and demands of the trade, and at all times gives fair and courteous 
treatment to his patrons. His is today one of the important concerns of 
this character in the city. 

	In 1888 Mr. Tammen chose a companion for the journey of life 
through his marriage to Miss Lizzie Weber, a native of Wisconsin. Their 
home has been blessed with one son and two daughters: Henry, Jr., who 
is manager of the Yankton Opera House; Laura; and Marguerite. 

	Where national issues are involved Mr. Tammen gives his political 
support to the democratic party but at local elections he votes 
independently. His fraternal relations connect him with the Masons, the 
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Pythias. 

	He finds his chief recreation and delight in motoring. He has 
ever led a busy, active and useful life which has won him the 
confidence and goodwill of his fellow men by reason of the honorable 
and straightforward policy which he has ever followed, and today he is 
ace counted one of the city's most prosperous and most substantial 
German citizens