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Note: School teacher Name: Henriette Kneeland Estimated birth year: 1855 Gender: Female Age: 15y Race or color (expanded): White Birthplace: Iowa Residence: Iowa, United States Collection: 1870 United States CensusName: Henriette Kneeland Estimated birth year: 1855 Gender: Female Age: 15y Race or color (expanded): White Birthplace: Iowa Residence: Iowa, United States Collection: 1870 United States Census Birth: �Ctab�DNov. 16, 1853 Wapello Louisa County Iowa, USA Death: �Ctab�DDec. 18, 1933 Louisa County Iowa, USA Robert Calvin Taylor, third son of John M Taylor and Sarah Brown(Braun) was born Nov 16 1853 in Wapello IA, married Henrietta Maria Kneeland, living in Omaha NE, on April 25 1876 in Chariton IA. Henrietta Maria Kneeland was born December 23 1854 in Louisa Co IA, daughter of James Hardy Kneeland and Catherine Lamb Feree. Robert Calvin Taylor died July 30 1940 in Douglas Co, Omaha NE. The children born to Robert Calvin Taylor and Henrietta Kneeland Taylor were: Charles R Edward Taylor Nellie Mary (Taylor) Gardner Emma Belle (Taylor) Byrde Day Mabel Lulu (Taylor) McIntosh Edna Pearl (Taylor) McCarville Beulah Lamb Taylor (unmarried) Family links: Spouse: Robert C Taylor (1853 - 1940)* Burial: Atlantic Cemetery Atlantic Cass County Iowa, USA Plot: B5 L286 Henrietta Maria Kneeland Taylor Learn about upgrading this memorial... Birth: �Ctab�DNov. 16, 1853 Wapello Louisa County Iowa, USA Death: �Ctab�DDec. 18, 1933 Louisa County Iowa, USA The family of Robert Calvin Taylor and wife, Henrietta Maria (Kneeland) Taylor, reached Atlantic about 1885. They had six children: Charles Edward, Nellie May, Emma Belle "Byrde," Mabel Lulu, Edna Pearl and Beulah Lamb Taylor. Mr. Taylor was employed as engineer at the Water Works for a number of years. When I was about four years old, we lived in the Captain Chesley house at Fifth and Spruce. When I broke my arm, Dr. F. M. Graham was called and came out in his horse and buggy. He said, "If you cry, I will chloroform you, but if you don't, I'll send you a big sack of candy." I didn't cry because I thought chloroform would kill me. In 1894 Coxey's Army, on their way to Washington to protest against the lack of jobs and food, passed our house. About 1897 my father and brother started a brick yard beyond the bridge and to the north of Second Street. While acquiring clay for the pits they uncovered an Indian grave. The skeleton was surrounded by possessions including two molded hatchet heads of green granite. My father kept the larger one and years later my sister Beulah took it to Des Moines to the museum as our father had requested. The year of the Spanish-American War, many Midwestern men were called to serve, but the group from Atlantic and nearby towns got no further that the west coast when it ended. We had word they were to be sent home so the town planned a celebration. Word went out that when the train reached the old Rock Island bridge west of town that an electrical signal would notify Atlantic that the train would reach the depot in ten minutes. It all happened at once� every locomotive's whistle, every church and school bell, every noise maker, even cowbells went into action, but above all the steam whistle at the Water Works which could be heard 30 miles away and the Atlantic band went into action. In 1901 our first wedding took place, Nellie May married Leonard Belden Gardner, whose father edited a newspaper in Atlantic. Then in 1902, my father bought the Dallinger house south of us, gave up the brickyard and started the Atlantic Brick and Tile Company. A group in town, who were good musicians, formed what was called "The Choral Union" headed by Dave Shuter, a very talented man and a stickler for perfection. In a short time our family made rapid changes. Mabel was married to Thomas Hayes Whitney, Charles to Cora Dallinger and Byrde to Walter Scott Day. My father continued to operate his business for some time but finally the clay which was used ran out and in time it was closed and now there is a small suburb on the site. My parents moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, and I, who had been attending business college in Atlantic, finished the course there while Beulah attended Wesleyan. Later we moved to Omaha. Mother died in 1933 and father in 1940. Both were interred in our family lot in Atlantic. [Written by Pearl McCarville, daughter of Robert Calvin Taylor & Henrietta Maria (Kneeland) Taylor] Submitted by Pat Taylor Jennings (busybee1952@hotmail.com) The Kneelands were Scottish
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