Frederick Dobbs Tappen (January 29, 1829 – February 28, 1902) was an American banker who was president of the Gallatin National Bank.
He was one of eleven children of Col. Charles Barclay Tappen (1796–1893), a veteran of the War of 1812 who was "a famous architect in his day"[1] and was Commissioner of Public Works in New York City from 1835 to 1838.
[2] Reportedly, "the family was of old Holland stock that fled to England to escape the Spanish persecutions in the Netherlands, while the first American ancestor" came to the United States "in 1630 and settled at Fort Orange, now Albany".
[1] For his services on the Committee, he was awarded a silver tankard in 1893 that had been originally presented to Sir John Houblon, first Governor of the Bank of England.
Together, they lived at 49 East 68th Street,[a] and were the parents of several children, including:[1] After a brief illness, Tappen died at Lakewood, New Jersey on February 28, 1902.