California Biographies
Taft, H. D.

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper

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Taft, H. D. Was born in Webster, Monroe county, New York, November 26, 1853. To
ascertain the different places in which the subject of this sketch has lived up
to the time of his arrival in Quincy, Illinois, in 1865, we refer the reader to
the biography of his father, S. A. Taft, D. D., directly above. At Webster, New
York, and other places he received his primary education, finishing the same at
Quincy, Illinois. During his residence in the latter place, he was engaged in
the wholesale boot and shoe house of Messrs. Blasland, Coburn & Co., from 1869
to January 1, 1873, when he moved to Hannibal, Missouri, where he was placed in
charge of a retail boot and shoe store during the Summer of 1873, after which he
accepted a situation as traveling salesman for a Boston wholesale boot and shoe
house, making regular trips through the Western States till the Summer of 1875,
when he emigrated to California, settling in Santa Rosa on October 26th of that
year. Here he was bookkeeper and salesman for Riley & Farmer till July, 1879,
and has since been in the employ of Messrs. Morrison Bros, as salesman in their
dry goods store. He married Belle, daughter of Rev. P. K. Dibble, a native of
Indiana, on the 19th October, 1875, by whom he has two children: Fancher De
Garmo, born August 8, 1876, and Mabel, born November 11, 1878.

Source: HISTORY OF SONOMA COUNTY, Alley, Bowen & Co. 1880