F. S. Tallmadge

Frederick S. Tallmadge’s membership of The Century dates from the remote period when its home was on Broadway, and he was something of a veteran when the Club removed to what is now by tradition “the Old House” on Fifteenth Street. At the time of his death there were but two members his seniors, Mr. Huntington, elected in 1846 [sic], and Mr. Durand, elected in 1847. He was essentially of the type of old New Yorker. He was born in 1824, in Vesey Street; his father had served as Recorder for twenty years, as well as in Congress, in the State Senate, and in the city government. His grandfather was the famous Colonel Benjamin Tallmadge of the Connecticut Dragoons; his grandmother, Mary Floyd, was the daughter of William Floyd, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. Tallmadge was graduated from Columbia College in 1845, and entered the profession of the law, being for many years of the firm of Noyes, Tracy & Tallmadge. Though his career as a lawyer was one of marked success, he found time to indulge fully his literary and social tastes. He was a discriminating collector in the line of Shakespeariana, and the drama and Americana of the Revolutionary period with which his family association was so close. A member of the Society of the Cincinnati, he was one of the founders of the Society of the Sons of the Revolution, for some twenty years its President and always devoted and energetic in the promotion of its aims. One of the latest acts of his life was the signing of the contract for the purchase of Fraunce’s [sic] Tavern where, a hundred and twenty years before, his grandfather had listened to the noble and pathetic farewell address of Washington to his officers.

Edward Cary
1905 Century Association Yearbook