Isaiah West TABER

Male 1830 - 1912  (81 years)


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  • Name Isaiah West TABER  [2
    • According to the Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley:

      Isaiah West Taber was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts August 17, 1830. Taber went to sea at the age of fifteen and spent several years working on whaling ships in the North Pacific. He came to California in 1850, where he spent four years working first as a miner, then a farmer.

      Taber returned to New Bedford in 1854 where he studied dentistry and began a dental practice. An interest in amateur photography eventually became his life-work. He settled in Syracuse, New York, where he opened his first studio.

      In 1864 he returned to California at the inducement of the photographers Bradley and Rulofson, whom he worked for until 1871. Taber established the "Taber Gallery" at No. 12 Montgomery Street in 1871. His highly successful business was well-known for portraiture and a vast stock of California and Western views-many of which were the unacknowledged works of other photographers.

      Taber's success and stature in California and abroad are evident in his being awarded the photographic concession of the Midwinter Fair of 1893-94 in San Francisco, his being sent to London in 1897 to photograph the pageant of the Queen Victoria Jubilee, and his commission to photograph King Edward VII. Taber's career ended in 1906 when his entire collection of glass plates, view negatives and portraits on glass were destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire. He died February 22, 1912.

      Posted on Find A Grave by D J Pimentel [1]
    Birth 17 Aug 1830  New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Gender Male 
    Census 1860  Living with mother in law, in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Fact Son of Freeman Taber and Louisa Dean Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Death 22 Feb 1912  San Francisco, San Francisco Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Burial Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda Co., California Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I92595  Main Tree
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2018 

    Family Mary F. R. HOWLAND,   b. 6 Jan 1834, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Sep 1878, Marysville, California Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 44 years) 
    Marriage 9 Apr 1857  [2
    Family ID F38652  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Sep 2018 

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    Link to Google MapsCensus - 1860 - Living with mother in law, in New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Alameda Co., California Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S02329] Find A Grave Website.

    2. [S10118] William M. Emery and William W. Crapo, The Howland Heirs being the Story of a Family and a fortune and the Inheritance of a Trust.

    3. [S5648] 1860 Census New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts.