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Title: Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences
Identifier: bulletinofsouthe1921sout (find matches)
Year: 1902-1971. (1900s)
Authors: Southern California Academy of Sciences
Subjects: Science; Natural history; Natural history
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : The Academy
Contributing Library: New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library
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GEORGE MAJOR TABER By S. J. Keese It is with sadness that we add Mr. Taber's name to the hst of Members and Directors of the Academy who have passed from among us since the last issue of the Bulletin. Mr. Taber was for many years, our Treasurer, and his writings on scientific and other interesting subjects, are to be found in many of the Bulletins- He was born in Starksboro, Vermont, November 17th, 1832, and died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. May Allured, on West
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GEORGE MAJOR TABOR Daguerrotype taken by himself in 1852 6th Street, Los Angeles, November 14th, 1920, the funeral being held on the anniversary of his eighty-eight birthday. After finishing his education at Middlebury, Vermont, he taught school in both Upper and Lower Canada; later he became expert in the new system of Daguerreotype photography, which he fol- lowed for a number of years. A reproduction of a photograph which he took of himself by this process in February 1852 is shown herewith; also a half-tone taken in his later 5^ears. ~ In 1856 he was appointed to the Chief Clerkship of General Fletcher, who was Agent to the Winnebago Indians in Northern 39

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