James Tagg, Ship Joiner and Sashmaker (1833-1903)
James Tagg was born in 1833 on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, middle son to immigrant parents William and Elizabeth Tagg. As a young boy, James, and his brothers Frederick and Henry […]
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The Long and Arduous Search for Jane Harriet Martling Tagg, Part II
Jane and Her Siblings, Elizabeth Martling Prindle and Ralph Thompson Martling Ironically, it would be a Google search that turned up the most fortunate conglomeration of names: Ralph Thompson Martling. […]
The Long and Arduous Search for Jane Harriet Martling Tagg, Part I
The wife of James Tagg, my great-great-great grandfather, was a family mystery. We knew nothing of her origins. We basically knew nothing about her. Little did I know that it […]
Uncle Ralph Thompson Martling Loses An Arm at Gettysburg
150 years ago starting today, three days of battle would turn the tide of war against the Confederacy. Two months earlier, General Lee’s Confederates had routed Union troops at Chancellorsville. […]
