Tanner, Ezra Perry

• Name	Tanner, Ezra Perry
  Gender	Male
  Family	2nd of three wives
  Person ID	I2387	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

  Family	McKinney, Sarah Jane,   b. 13 Mar 1848   d. 10 Dec 1903, Dorchester, Suffolk Co., MA (Age 55 years)
  Marriage	06 Apr 1879	Abington, Plymouth Co., MA
  Family ID	F2024	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - 06 Apr 1879 - Abington, Plymouth Co., MA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  In 1862 he was liable for military service from Marshfield. At the time of his first marriage he was a grocer. At the age of seventeen he began to lecture. When twenty-one he was appointed postmaster at Fairmont, Mass.; from 1865 to 1868 he was deputy collector of the Boston Internal Revenue District; in 1876-77 he was editor of the Plymouth Colony Journal; from 1877 to 1879 he was in the service of the Navy Department; from 1879 to 1886 he was in the Customs Service; in 1916 he was in the paymaster's office at the United States Navy Yard at Charlestown, Mass. He has delivered many addresses on Abraham Lincoln, and lectured in the nineties on the subject "Calhoun to Grant." On six or seven occasions he has been a Memorial Day orator. On 30 May 1876 he delivered an oration at Hampton, Va., being the first Northern man to address the Grand Army of the Republic on Southern soil and successfully fulfilling the delicate task, without criticism from the Southern newspapers.