Tiemann was an
industrialist, who lived in
Manhattanville where he owned D. F. Tiemann & Company Paint & Color Works, which manufactured pigments and paints. This business had been started originally in 1804 by his father, I. Anthony Tiemann, with his brother, Julius William Tiemann, and Nicholas Stippel. His father retired from the business in 1839. The Tiemann laboratory and factory was originally located on
23rd Street and
Fourth Avenue in New York City, near
Madison Square Park, later relocating uptown to
Manhattanville in 1832. Tiemann was a member of the
New York State Senate (8th District) in
1872 and
1873. His younger brother, Julius William Tiemann, was one of the founding partners in the D. F. Tiemann company, and father of Hermann Newell Tiemann (1863–1957), who was a commercial photographer in New York City. D. F. Tiemann was nephew-in-law of
Peter Cooper, the American industrialist and inventor. In 1826, he had married Martha Clowes, Cooper's niece, and they had three sons and three daughters. == Legacy ==