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Tappan was born April 30, 1824 in Steubenville, Ohio, the son of Benjamin Tappan and his second wife Betsy (Lord) Tappan.
The boy was educated in the public schools of Steubenville, under private tutors, and in St. Mary's College, Baltimore, Md. Leaving without taking a degree, he began the study of law in 1842 under his father and his father's partner, Edwin M. Stanton.
He was admitted to the bar in 1846. He founded the weekly Ohio Press, Columbus, that same year, and was its editor for two years. He then practised law in Steubenville for seven or eight years. In 1852 he served as mayor. He began teaching in the public schools in 1857, and from March 1858 to June 1859 was superintendent. This last experience fixed his life career, and he was thereafter engaged in educational work.
He was professor of mathematics in Ohio University, 1859-60, and again 1865-68, and teacher of mathematics in Mount Auburn Young Ladies' Institute in the interval, 1860-65. He became president of Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, in 1869, serving until 1875 when he was made professor of mathematics and political economy in the same institution. As president he completed the chapel known as "Church of the Holy Spirit" and completely revised the curricula of the college. He was also a champion of common schools. As early as 1854, in lectures to teachers, he revealed an insight into school organization and methods of instruction which was in advance of his time.
While he was professor in Mount Auburn Young Ladies' Institute he published Treatise on Plane and Solid Geometry (1864), based in large measure upon well known French and German textbooks, to supplement the widely used series of arithmetics and algebras by Joseph Ray. He was the author of the history of school legislation in Ohio from the beginning to the Codification Act of 1873 which formed part of the state's exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, and he contributed many articles to educational journals.
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He was a member of the Episcopal Church for many years.
He was a member of the first Ohio state board of school examiners in 1864, was elected president of the Ohio State Teachers Association in 1866; became a charter member of the council of the National Educational Association in 1880, its treasurer in 1880-81, and its president in 1883. In 1887 he was elected commissioner of common schools of Ohio.
Tappan married Lydia McDowell of Steubenville, February 4, 1851. Two children were born to this union: a son, and a daughter, Mary, who married John Henry Wright, later a professor at Harvard, and became a writer of some repute.