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 



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 



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