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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ecture suggests thatof the White House and it was, as a matter of fact, de-signed by the same architect, an Irishman named Hoban.The Sinton house is lower than the White House, beingonly one story high with a basement, but it has the sameclassic outlines and it bears, moreover, the stamp of time,which gives it a character all its own. It was built about 1800 by a Mr. Martin Baum, but waspurchased by the first Nicholas Longworth in the early partof the century and was the home of the Longworth familyfor a generation. Long before I can remember, it wasbought by Mr. David Sinton, one of the most successfulbusiness men in Ohio, and to me it was always the Sintonhome. When I was about twelve years old, Mr. Sintonsdaughter Annie married my husbands brother, Charles P.Taft, and as they have always lived in this old house it hascome to be known, since Mr. Sintons death in 1901, as theTaft house. It is the only Taft house in Cincinnati now,the house where my husband was born having been sold 4
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MRS. TAFT S CHILDHOOD HOME OX PIKE STREET. IX CINCINNATI RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS f £ after his fathers death, and it has been the scene of manyof the most important events of my life. It was there thatmy husband received the announcement of his nominationfor the Presidency; it was there, in front of the house, thathe made his speech of acceptance; and it was there thatCharles Taft gathered a large party of friends on the nightof November 6, 1908, to receive with us the election re-turns. And it is now to this house, where my husbandsbrother Charles and his wife dispense a generous hospitality,that we always go when we return to Cincinnati. My girlhood days were spent quite placidly in MissNourses school, which was known in Cincinnati as TheNursery, and where all the girls of the Herron family,as well as Mr. Tafts only sister, Fanny, received theireducation. Miss Nourse was a Maine woman with a thor-ough New England education and with a thoroughly NewEngland idea of imparting it.

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