Harriet Allen Taylor

Female11 March 1869–29 April 1953

Brief Life History of Harriet Allen

When Harriet Allen Taylor was born on 11 March 1869, in San Francisco, California, United States, her father, Joseph Taylor, was 21 and her mother, Emma Baldwin, was 21. She married Arthur Edward Traver on 22 December 1891, in San Francisco, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. She lived in Albany, Linn, Oregon, United States in 1910 and Linn, Oregon, United States in 1920. She died on 29 April 1953, in Lane, Oregon, United States, at the age of 84.

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Family Time Line

Arthur Edward Traver
1866–1920
Harriet Allen Taylor
1869–1953
Marriage: 22 December 1891
Bessie Irene Traver
1892–1946
Hazel Della Traver
1895–1975

Sources (8)

  • Harriet A Traver in household of Arthur E Traver, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Hattie Traver, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Death Records, 1864-1967"
  • Hattie Allen Taylor Traver Traver in entry for Hazel Della Traver Spurlin, "Oregon, Oregon State Archives, Births, 1842-1917"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    22 December 1891San Francisco, California, United States

    • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Age 1

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1872 · The Modoc War

    Age 3

    Hostilities between Modoc Indians and white settlers resulted in the Modoc War during 1872-1873. A Modoc band of nearly 200 people, led by Captain Jack Kintpuash, was fleeing a forced relocation to a reservation occupied by their enemies, the Klamaths. The band had returned to their former land on Lost River, which now had white settlers occupying the area. The conflict erupted on November 29, 1872, when 40 troops were sent to move the Modocs back to the reservation. An argument erupted and shots were fired. Several were killed and the Modocs fled to “The Stronghold,” a large, cavernous lava bed. The holdout went on for months with several clashes. On April 11, 1873, General Edward Richard Sprigg Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas were killed by the Modocs during a negotiation. The Modocs lacked resources and supplies and eventually surrendered on July 4. In total, 2 Modocs and 71 enlisted military men lost their lives.

    1891 · Angel Island Serves as Quarantine Station

    Age 22

    Angel Island served as a quarantine station for those diagnosed with bubonic plague beginning in 1891. A quarantine station was built on the island which was funded by the federal government at the cost of $98,000. The disease spread to port cities around the world, including the San Francisco Bay Area, during the third bubonic plague pandemic, which lasted through 1909.

    Name Meaning

    English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.

    In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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    Story Highlight

    Record of Hazel Della Traver Spurlin of Halsey, Oregon

    A history sent from Della Spurlin in 1963 to a distant cousin, Tom Stoker: Now I will give you a brief history of myself and the Ed Traver family. My father's name was Arthur Edward Traver but was …

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