When Charles August Tappe was born on 10 May 1860, in Newark Township, Essex, New Jersey, United States, his father, August Conrad Tappe, was 30 and his mother, Fredericka Charlotte Goldstein, was 29. He married Mary Ella Sargent on 3 December 1885, in Bloomington Precinct, McLean, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Bloomington Precinct, McLean, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States for about 8 years. In 1885, at the age of 25, his occupation is listed as jeweler in Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States. He died on 13 February 1938, in Normal, McLean, Illinois, United States, at the age of 77, and was buried in Bloomington, McLean, Illinois, United States.
North German: metonymic occupational name for the owner of a tavern, a beer or wine tapper, from Middle Low German tappe ‘tap’.
German: variant of Tapp .
English: variant of Tapp . This surname has now died out in Britain.
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