Researching Nelly Tolman
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 391 people with the Tolman surname? In that year Tolman was ranked number 3188 for popularity in the UK. |
Records of Nelly Tolman on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Nelly Tolman and the Tolman Family Tree
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 322 people with the Tolman surname in the UK? Tolman is now ranked number 3739 for popularity in the UK. |
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 6076 people with the Tolman surname in the USA? Tolman is ranked number 155 for popularity in the USA. |
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Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Nelly Tolman. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Nelly Tolman
Nelly McKenzie Tolman
Nelly Summeril McKenzie Tolman (1877–1961) was an American painter.
Born in Salisbury, North Carolina, Nelly McKenzie traveled to Washington, D.C. to study at the Corcoran School of Art. Among her instructors there was Ruel Pardee Tolman, whom she would go on to marry. A specialist in miniature painting, she began working in the discipline around 1926, and remained active for many years in local artistic circles. She belonged to the Miniature Painters, Gravers and Sculptors Society of Washington, the Washington Water Color Club, and the Arts Club of Washington, and exhibited regularly with each; she also showed work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and with the American Artists Professional League. She was among those artists included in the Greater Washington Independent Exhibition of 1935. Tolman died in Washington.
A portrait by Tolman, of artist Bertha Jaques, is currently owned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A portrait of Elizabeth C. Wickersham is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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