Daniel Fawcett Tiemann (January 9, 1805 – June 29, 1899) was the mayor of New York

New York City

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 from 1858 to 1860. He was a founding trustee of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Tiemann was an industrialist, who lived in Manhattanville where he owned D.F. Tiemann & Company Paint & Color Works which manufactured pigments and paints. This business had been started originally in 1804 by his father, I. Anthony Tiemann, with his brother, Julius William Tiemann, and Nicholas Stippel. His father retired from the business in 1839.

He was educated in a private seminary and at age thirteen began an apprenticeship in the drugstore of H.M. Schiefflin & Co., on Pearl Street

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, until 1824, when he joined his father's company. He became a partner in the company in 1826.

The Tiemann laboratory and factory was originally located on 23rd Street

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 and Fourth Avenue

Park Avenue (Manhattan)

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 in New York City, near Madison Square Park

Madison Square

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, later relocating uptown to Manhattanville in 1832.

His paternal uncle, Julius William Tiemann, was one of the founding partners in the D.F. Tiemann company, and father of Hermann Newell Tiemann (1863–1957), who was a commercial photographer in New York City.

D.F. Tiemann was nephew-in-law of Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper

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, the American industrialist and inventor. In 1826, he had married Martha Clowes, Cooper's niece, and they had three sons and three daughters.

Further reading

• Williams Haynes, American Chemical Industry, Vol. 1, D. Van Nostrand Co., New York, 1954, pp. 203–204
• "Large Fire in Manhattanville", New York Times, September 17, 1879
• "Fire in a Paint Manufactory", New York Times, August 10, 1881
• "Daniel F. Tiemann Dead", New York Times, June 30, 1899
• "Efforts To Make Dyestuffs Here", New York Times, April 4, 1915
• "Tiemann Hall", New York Times, November 3, 1940
• "Tiemann"
• "Indian Spring and Tiemann's Fountain, Manhattan"
• "Walk: Tiemann Place"
• Eric K. Washington, Manhattanville, Arcadia Publishing, 2002
• Teachers College Record, Vol. III, Columbia University Press, 1902, p. 17, 286
• "Biographical Sketches. Hon. Daniel F. Tiemann, Mayor of the City of New York", [pp. 420–436] in Journals: The United States Democratic Review (1837–1859)
• "NEW-YORK CITY.; Board of Councilmen. Coroner's Inquests. The Abandoned Church. Well-Dressed Beggars. Accidents. Police Intelligence.", The New York Times, October 19, 1858, Wednesday. This has several orders and messages from Mayor Daniel F. Tiemann to the Board of Councilman of New-York.

External links

• Tiemann Place - Eric Washington site