ALLEN WHITE TIFFANY:
An Inventory of His Letters at the Minnesota Historical Society
Manuscripts Collection
OVERVIEW
Creator: | Tiffany, Allen White, creator. | |
Title: | Lieutenant A. W. Tiffany letters. | |
Dates: | 1864. | |
Language: | Materials in English. | |
Abstract: | Includes two letters and one envelope of 2nd Lieutenant Allen White Tiffany of Company H, Ninth Minnesota, while a Confederate prisoner-of-war in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as some biographical information. | |
Quantity: | 0.1 cubic feet in partial box. | |
Location: | P2776: See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Allen White Tiffany appears to have been born in Peru, Berkshire County, Massachusetts on 8 July 1827, the son of Giles Hamlin and Anna Tiffany. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Dixon, Illinois. He married Eliza Hale Pierce of Burlington, New York, in 1854. In 1856, he moved to Carver County, Minnesota Territory. In 1860, he appears as a farmer in Florence Township, Carver County with his wife Eliza and children Mary and George W. 22 August 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company H of the Ninth Minnesota Infantry Regiment. During the war he was promoted to Sergeant and later Second Lieutenant. 10 June 1864, he was captured at Guntown, Mississippi, and appears to have spent some time as a prisoner of war in the Andersonville Prison. In August and September he was a prisoner of war in Charleston, South Carolina. He was mustered out at Fort Snelling, 24 August 1865.
He returned to Minnesota, where he appears in the 1865 census of Young America Township, Carver County with his wife and two children. Tiffany was active in local government, serving as chairman of the township board of supervisors and a member of the Carver County Board of Commissioners. In 1880 he was elected to the Minnesota State Senate from District 33, serving from 1881 to January 1, 1883. He was a member, and in 1888 commander, of the John C. Becht post, Grand Army of the Republic, at Young America.
At some point after 1888, the Tiffany family moved to Washington state where Allen received pension certificate 10000235 for service in the Civil War on 5 February 1895. He appears in the West Ferndale Precinct of Whatcom County, Washington, in the 1900 census. He died at his farm home in Whatcom County, Washington in 1903. His wife Eliza received her widow's pension (certificate 654006) on 2 April 1903. Eliza Tiffany died in Ferndale, 14 November 1910. He had five children, two of whom died in infancy.
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Lieutenant A. W. Tiffany Letters. Minnesota Historical Society.
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Accession Information:
Accession number: 16,434
Processing Information:
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Catalog ID number: 990073926590104294
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
P2776 | Lieutenant A. W. Tiffany correspondence, 1864. | ||||||||||
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Transcript, Digital version
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Biographical information about A. W. Tiffany. |
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Persons:
- Tiffany, Allen White
- Places:
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons.