Harry Heye Tammen
Tammen (left) standing with Buffalo Bill (right) at the Kansas City railroad depot, August 29, 1913
Tammen (left) standing with Buffalo Bill (right) at the Kansas City railroad depot, August 29, 1913
Born
Heinrich Heye Tammen

March 6, 1856
Baltimore, Maryland
DiedJuly 19, 1924 (68 years old)
Burial placeFairmount Cemetery
NationalityAmerican
Other namesBon
Occupation(s)journalist
Bartender
EmployerThe Denver Post
Known forCo-owning The Denver Post
Parent(s)Heye Henrich (father)
Caroline Henrietta Piepenbruker (mother)

Heinrich “Harry” Heye Tammen (March 6, 1856, Baltimore, Maryland—July 19, 1924, Denver, Colorado) was an American businessman. He worked alongside Frederick Gilmer Bonfils and co-owned The Denver Post, the Kansas City Times, and the Sells Floto Circus.

Biography

Tammen was born Heinrich Heye Tammen on March 6, 1856, in Baltimore, Maryland.[1] His father was a pharmacist and attaché for the Netherlands[2] named Heye Henrich. His mother was named Caroline Henrietta Piepenbruker. Both of his parents were immigrants from Hanover.[3]

He grew up working for beer gardens and became a bartender before he was 21. He moved to Philadelphia, then to Denver in 1880 to continue bartending at the Windsor Hotel.[3][4][5] In 1881, he founded the H.H. Tammen Curio Company. The company sold inauthentic skookum dolls, Navajo blankets, and arrowheads.[3][6]

While working at the Windsor Hotel, Tammen met his business partner, Fredrick Gilmer Bonfils. Together, they bought the Sells Floto Circus,[7] and The Denver Post in 1895.[5] They involved themselves with yellow journalism. Tammen and Bonfils, also known as “Tam and Bon”,[2] were merciless; they threatened and bribed other local newspapers, and with their silent partner, J. Ogden Armour, they purchased the Kansas City Times.[8]

Tammen died on July 19, 1924 in Denver.[3]

References

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  2. 1 2 Bricklin, Julia (2018-09-01). Polly Pry: The Woman Who Wrote the West. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4930-3440-6.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Colorado, State Historical and Natural History Society of (1927). History of Colorado. Linderman Company, Incorporated.
  4. ↑ McCartney, Laton (2008). The Teapot Dome Scandal : how big oil bought the Harding White House and tried to steal the country. Internet Archive. New York : Random House. ISBN 978-1-4000-6316-1.
  5. 1 2 Leavitt, Craig; Noel, Thomas J. (2016-02-15). Herndon Davis: Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 978-1-60732-420-1.
  6. ↑ Rogan, Bjarne (January 2006). "Folk Art and Politics In Inter-War Europe: An Early Debate on Applied Ethnology". Folk Life. 45 (1): 7–23. doi:10.1179/flk.2006.45.1.7. ISSN 0430-8778. S2CID 147030198.
  7. ↑ Johnston, Winifred (1935). "PASSING OF THE 'WILD WEST': A Chapter in the History of American Entertainment". Southwest Review. 21 (1): 33–51. ISSN 0038-4712. JSTOR 43462218.
  8. ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/web/20081002143207/http://www.dnr.missouri.gov/shpo/nps-nr/84002568.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-10-02. Retrieved 2023-11-03. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
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