1910 Burdette

Robert J. Burdette (ed.) Greater Los Angeles & Southern California: Portraits & Personal Memoranda The Lewis Publishing Company: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, 1910

p. 130 Stephen Harris Taft, Sawtelle

     Born Sept. 14, 1825, at Palermo, N. Y. Abolitionist speaker at

eighteen; entered ministry at twenty-two. Delegate to tlie

National Free Soil Convention of 1852, the Anti-Nebraska con-

vention held at Saratoga Springs, and to the Maine Law conven-

tion of New York that nominated Governor Clark in 1854. Came

to Iowa in 1862; laid out the town of Humboldt, organized a church

and built a saw- and grist-mill; founded Humboldt Coll., in 1872,

of which Pres. nine years. Has attended five centennial celebra-

tions-Battle of Lexington, Boston Tea Party, Declaration of

Independence, Discovery of Oxygen Gas and World's Centennial

Temperance Congress of 1908; also, bi-centennial of the coming

of Great Ancestor from England to America. Has entertained at

his eastern home many celebrated reformers, men and women.

Came to California, 1896; superintended founding of Sawtelle; first

Pres. Los Angeles County Anti-Saloon League.

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