Tatnall County
Tatnall may refer to: People * David Tatnall (born 1955), Australian photographer * Edward Tatnall (1782–1856), American railroad executive and miller, son of Joseph Tatnall * Francis Gibbons Tatnall (1896–1981), American engineer and entrepreneur * Joseph Tatnall (1740–1813), American Quaker merchant, miller and banker Other uses * Tattnall County, Georgia, United States * Tatnall School The Tatnall School is a private college preparatory private school in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware; it has a Wilmington postal address and is adjacent to, but not in, the Greenville census-designated place. The school is for studen ...

David Tatnall
David Tatnall (born 1955) is a Melbourne photographer, known for his representation of the natural landscape. Tatnall began his career as an artistic photographer in 1975. He works with both large format and pinhole camera techniques. His work is in the same tradition as Peter Dombrovskis and Olegas Truchanas - in the past, Tatnall has worked with Dombrovskis. "I tend to go with no preconceived idea of what I'm going to photograph, other than I'm going to this particular location and I'll see what's there. I go mainly to experience the location, to experience the wilderness area, to actually go there on a walking trip and I take my camera. If I see things to make photographs, I'll stop and make photographs."David Tatnall, quoted i"The Terry Lane Interviews - That Photograph" ''Radio National'', Melbourne, 4 November 2007 5:00 PM. Retrieved on 16 May 2017. Selected works His works are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Victoria, State Library of Victoria and t ...
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Edward Tatnall
Edward Tatnall (1782–1856) was an American miller and railroad executive based in Wilmington, Delaware. Early life Tattnell was a son of Joseph Tatnall, a miller and banker in Wilmington. Business career He was a director of the Delaware and Maryland Railroad and of the Wilmington and Susquehanna Railroad, two of the four railroads that helped build the first rail link from Philadelphia to Baltimore. In 1838, they merged into the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad. His service is noted on the 1839 Newkirk Viaduct Monument The Newkirk Viaduct Monument (also, Newkirk Monument) is a 15-foot white marble obelisk in the West Philadelphia neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Installed in 1839, it is inscribed with the names of 51 railroad builders and executives, ... (upon which his name is misspelled as "Tatnell"). Personal life His grandson, Henry Tatnall (1897–1940), was the Pennsylvania Railroad's first professionally trained vice president in charge of fi ...
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Francis Gibbons Tatnall
Francis Gibbons Tatnall (8 March 1896 – December 1981) was an American engineer and entrepreneur. He went by Frank and was born to William Francis Tatnall and Lillian Harriett Tatnall (born Runcie). Tatnall worked at Vishay Intertechnology and has been referred to as the spiritual father of strain gages. Education Tatnall graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Research and career Tatnall worked for the Baldwin-Southwark Corporation, a subsidiary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, selling test equipment. During that stage of his career he traveled extensively getting to know everyone in the testing business and got to know many inventors developing new strain gauge technologies. He helped many of these inventors set up businesses, which he took financial stakes in, and arranged to sell the devices through Baldwin-Southwark. In 1951 Baldwin Locomotive Works merged with the Lima-Hamilton Corporation to form the Baldwin-Lima-Hami ...
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Joseph Tatnall
Joseph Tatnall (1740–1813) was an American businessman, who was a prominent Quaker merchant, miller, and banker in Wilmington, Delaware. Early life The only son of Edward and Elizabeth (Pennock) Tatnall, Joseph was born in Wilmington on November 6, 1740. He established a mill on the Brandywine River outside Wilmington, where he helped develop the Brandywine Village, a center of early American industrialization. During the American Revolution, Tatnall hosted Generals George Washington and Lafayette at his stone mansion at 1803 Market Street, and lent his parlors to General Anthony Wayne to use as a headquarters. He also kept his flour mills "going day and night" to provide food for the Continental Army. Professional career In 1795, Tatnall became the first president of the National Bank of Delaware, which would survive as an independent bank until 1929. With James Canby (1781–1858), a scion of another prosperous miller, Tatnall rented farm land for grazing and growing hay. In ...
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Tattnall County, Georgia
Tattnall County is a county located in the southeast portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 25,520. The county seat is Reidsville. Tattnall County was created on December 5, 1801, from part of Montgomery County, Georgia by the Georgia General Assembly. The county was named after Josiah Tattnall (1762–1803), a planter, soldier and politician. It is located within the Magnolia Midlands, a part of the Historic South region. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (1.8%) is water. Most of the western portion of Tattnall County, defined by a line running from Cobbtown south to Collins, then east to a point halfway to Bellville, and then south and southwest to the middle of the county's southern border, is located in the Ohoopee River sub-basin of the Altamaha River basin. The northeastern portion of the county, from Cobbtown to east of Reidsville, is located in the Canooche ...
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