Tallman, William B. - biography
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Tallman, William B. - biography
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Classification: Biography
Surnames: Tallman, Bester
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from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record” by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 54.
WILLIAM B. TALLMAN, attorney at law, was born at Point Pleasant, Tyler County, West Virginia, January 11, 1848. His parents were Thomas B. and Frances Tallman, who removed with their family in 1850 to Iowa, and first settled at Keokuk and shortly after in Des Moines County, this State. Here William was raised as a farmer’s boy; attending the common school until he was prepared to enter college, at which time he entered the Baptist University, at Burlington, Iowa, where he afterward acquitted himself with honor in the graduating class of 1870.
He then removed with his father’s family to this county, and engaged in farming in the summer and teaching in the winter until 1875, at which time Mr. Tallman married Miss Emma Bester, of Abingdon, Illinois, a lady of many accomplishments.
In the spring of 1876 Mr. Tallman was elected principal of the Woodburn school, at Woodburn, Iowa, which position he held until 1879, during which time he studied law, and in 1880 removed to Osceola, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar in December of the same year. He immediately began the practice of his profession, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Tallman in the last few years has been engaged as counsel in a number of very important cases in his county and his uniform success at the bar has given him a reputation as a lawyer, and he is looked upon as one of the rising young lawyers of Southern Iowa, and has now a large and lucrative practice, possessing the confidence of the citizens of his county.
from reprint of “Clarke County Historical and Biographical Record” by Lewis Publishing, 1886. p. 54.
WILLIAM B. TALLMAN, attorney at law, was born at Point Pleasant, Tyler County, West Virginia, January 11, 1848. His parents were Thomas B. and Frances Tallman, who removed with their family in 1850 to Iowa, and first settled at Keokuk and shortly after in Des Moines County, this State. Here William was raised as a farmer’s boy; attending the common school until he was prepared to enter college, at which time he entered the Baptist University, at Burlington, Iowa, where he afterward acquitted himself with honor in the graduating class of 1870.
He then removed with his father’s family to this county, and engaged in farming in the summer and teaching in the winter until 1875, at which time Mr. Tallman married Miss Emma Bester, of Abingdon, Illinois, a lady of many accomplishments.
In the spring of 1876 Mr. Tallman was elected principal of the Woodburn school, at Woodburn, Iowa, which position he held until 1879, during which time he studied law, and in 1880 removed to Osceola, Iowa, and was admitted to the bar in December of the same year. He immediately began the practice of his profession, in which he has been very successful. Mr. Tallman in the last few years has been engaged as counsel in a number of very important cases in his county and his uniform success at the bar has given him a reputation as a lawyer, and he is looked upon as one of the rising young lawyers of Southern Iowa, and has now a large and lucrative practice, possessing the confidence of the citizens of his county.