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- Herbert Battles Tanner, M. D., a resident of Kaukauna, was born in White-water, Wisconsin, February 13th, 1859, the son of Ford Tanner, now retired and living in Appleton. The first of the Tanners in this country came to Rhode Island from Wales, and thence their descendants spread throughout the country. Dr. Tanner's great-grandfather served as a private in the Revolutionary army, and his grandfather, Dr. Cuyler Tanner, was a surgeon in the war of 1812-14. The maiden name of Dr.Tanner's mother was Mary A. Battles, and her ancestors settle in Bridgewater, Mass., about 1725, and many of their descendants still remain in Massachusetts. Dr. Tanner's grandfather on his mother's side, Dr. J. D. Battles, was a merchant in Boston from 1821 to 1845, when he came west, settling in Griggsville, Illinois. After that he studied medicine and practiced there for over forty years, dying at the age of ninety.
In 1864 H. B. Tanner's parents removed from Whitewater to La Fayette, Ind., where the boy received his elementary education in the common schools. In 1872 the family left La Fayette and came to Chicago, where young Tanner continued his education in the public schools, and in a business college. After leaving school he spent some time as a clerk, and, in 1876, went to Philadelphia to see the Centennial Exposition and as agent of a Chicago firm in which his father was interested. At about this time his father moved to Indianapolis, Ind., and, upon the advice of his grandfather, Dr. Battles, he entered the Indiana Medical College, and graduated in the class of 1878. He did post-graduate work in the hospitals of New York and Philadelphia. Returning to Chicago, he practiced there for a time, but in July, 1880, he became a resident of Kaukauna, his present home.
He is a member of the American Medical association; the National Association of Railway Surgeons; the Wisconsin State Medical society, of which he was secretary of committee on laryngology in 1890, chairman of the committee on obstetrics in 1892, and materia medica in 1889, member of the committee on practice in 1893, and in 1895 secretary of the committee on obstetrics; served five terms as secretary and treasurer of the Fox River Valley society, and is now its president; member of the Medico-Legal society of New York; was city physician from 1886 to 1893. He has served three years as secretary of the south side school board; was elected in 1894 the first Republican mayor of Kaukauna, and re-elected for a second term. He was a member of the pension examining board in 1890-93. In 1895 Gov. Upham appointed him state supervisor of inspectors of illuminating oils for a term of two years. He was reappointed to the same office by Gov. Scofield. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, lodge, chapter and commandery, and of the Congregational church. He is now serving his third year as treasurer of Kaukauna Lodge, I. O. O. F.
Dr. Tanner was married September, 1st, 1881, to Miss Mary G.M., daughter of James M. and Maria M. (Lawe) Body; granddaughter of Col. George and Harriett (Johnson) Boyd; and great-granddaughter of Joshua Johnson, a pioneer of Maryland and first United States consul at London, England. Col. George Boyd was a brother-in-law of President John Quincy Adams, and a life-long government official, and was a bearer of dispatches to Ghent at the time of the treaty in 1814. They have three sons and a daughter.
In politics Dr. Tanner is an active Republican, having been secretary of the Kaukauna Republican club for eight years and its president nine years. The latter position he still holds. He is also a member of the county committee."
[Men of Progress, Wisconsin,..., 1897, Page 265-26
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1859 - 1933 (74 years)
