Only child of HENRY HOBART TAYLOR & ADELAIDE S. CHATFIELD
aka: HOBART CHATFIELD TAYLOR
Occupation: Author, literary figure, Spanish Consul in Chicago
Married (1): Jun 19, 1890, ROSE FARWELL, Lake Forest, Cook Co., Illinois
Four children:
1. Adelaide CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1891 - 1982
2. Wayne CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1893 - 1967
3. Otis CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1900 - 1948
4. Robert Farwell CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1908 - 1980
Married (2): Jun 23, 1920, ESTELLE (BARBOUR) STILLMAN, New York
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Upon the death of his uncle, Wayne Chatfield, his will provided that Hobart was to receive his fortune of $3,500,000.00 with the proviso that he would take his uncle's name. This he did and his name became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor. He was one of the first Americans to acquire a hyphenated name. At this time he was twenty-eight years of age. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886 and later married the youngest daughter of ex-senator and millionaire, Charles B. Farwell. The two fortunes which he inherited amounted to approximately four and a half million dollars. This was exclusive of his wife's inheritance. One of the newspaper accounts stated that he was very wealthy and did not dissipate in any hurtful way.
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Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield, author; born in Chicago, March 24, 1865; son of Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (Chatfield) Taylor. His early and reparatory education was received at Trinity School, Tivoli, New York, and in European schools, he then entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated with the degree of B.S., in 1886; D. Lake Forest College, 1912. In 1888, in Chicago, he established "America," a weekly political review, which he conducted until 1890, then went abroad, and was special correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. He was consul of Spain at Chicago during the period of the World's Columbian Exposition, and a member of the Spanish Commission to that World's Fair. [p.110]
Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has contributed to all the principal magazines, and is author of "With Edged Tools"; "An American Peeress"; "Two Women and a Fool"; "The Land of the Castanet"; "The Vice of Fools"; "The Idle Born"; "The Crimson Wing"; "Goldrui: a Biography," just published (1913), etc. Besides contributing articles upon the French classic drama, to the magazines, he has lectured upon Moliére and the French drama of the Seventeenth Century at the University of Chicago, Cornell, Bryn Mawr and other colleges. Member National Institute Arts and Letters. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (England) he has for his services to literature, received the following decorations: Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, and Officiër de l'Instruction Publique (France) Chevalier of the Order of St. James, for Literary, Scientific and Artistic merit (Portugal), and Officer of the Order of the Bust of the Liberator (Vanezuela), while for his services to Spain, during the Columbian Exposition, he was made a Chevalier of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic. He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati through his descent from Lieutenant John Eames of the Fifth Regiment of Continental Foot, and of the Illinois Society of Colonial Wars. He is a member of the Chicago, University and Onwentsia Clubs of Chicago, and has been president of the latter, and he is also a member of the Union Club of New York City, and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor married at Chicago, June 19, 1890, Rose, daughter of the late Charles B. Farwell, United Slates senator from Illinois, and they have three children: Adelaide, Wayne and Otis. Residence: Lake Forest, Illinois. Address: 100 Washington street, Chicago, Ill.
MEN OF NINETEEN-THIRTEEN, page 110
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Jun 8, 1920: Morning Press, oldest newspaper in Southern California
The Daily Round of Society
A telegram was received yesterday announcing the engagement of Mr. Hobart Chatfield Taylor to Mrs. Estelle Harbour Stillman of New York. Mrs. Stillman is the widow of George S. Stillman of New York and Detroit and was an Intimate friend of the late Mrs. Taylor. Mr. Stillman died in 1907. Mrs. Stillman has been living at Grassepoint Farms, Michigan, near Detroit. The announcement was made Saturday, May 5th, in New York city. Mr. Taylor left here for Chicago the day after La Primavera with Wallace Rice, the author of the popular masque, who spent the winter with Mr. Baylor. Mr Taylor visited Chicago with his son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield Taylor at their home at Lake Forest and saw for the first time a new grandchild named Adelaide, after Mr Taylor's daughter, Mrs. B.B. Whitman of Boston. He visited Mr. and Mrs. Whitman of Boston and when his son, Otis Chatfield Taylor, was through at Harvard, intended to return to Far Afield, his country place in Montecito.
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aka: HOBART CHATFIELD TAYLOR
Occupation: Author, literary figure, Spanish Consul in Chicago
Married (1): Jun 19, 1890, ROSE FARWELL, Lake Forest, Cook Co., Illinois
Four children:
1. Adelaide CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1891 - 1982
2. Wayne CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1893 - 1967
3. Otis CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1900 - 1948
4. Robert Farwell CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1908 - 1980
Married (2): Jun 23, 1920, ESTELLE (BARBOUR) STILLMAN, New York
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Upon the death of his uncle, Wayne Chatfield, his will provided that Hobart was to receive his fortune of $3,500,000.00 with the proviso that he would take his uncle's name. This he did and his name became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor. He was one of the first Americans to acquire a hyphenated name. At this time he was twenty-eight years of age. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886 and later married the youngest daughter of ex-senator and millionaire, Charles B. Farwell. The two fortunes which he inherited amounted to approximately four and a half million dollars. This was exclusive of his wife's inheritance. One of the newspaper accounts stated that he was very wealthy and did not dissipate in any hurtful way.
http://steamtraction.farmcollector.com/
Farm-life/Henry-Hobart-Taylor.aspx
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Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield, author; born in Chicago, March 24, 1865; son of Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (Chatfield) Taylor. His early and reparatory education was received at Trinity School, Tivoli, New York, and in European schools, he then entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated with the degree of B.S., in 1886; D. Lake Forest College, 1912. In 1888, in Chicago, he established "America," a weekly political review, which he conducted until 1890, then went abroad, and was special correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. He was consul of Spain at Chicago during the period of the World's Columbian Exposition, and a member of the Spanish Commission to that World's Fair. [p.110]
Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has contributed to all the principal magazines, and is author of "With Edged Tools"; "An American Peeress"; "Two Women and a Fool"; "The Land of the Castanet"; "The Vice of Fools"; "The Idle Born"; "The Crimson Wing"; "Goldrui: a Biography," just published (1913), etc. Besides contributing articles upon the French classic drama, to the magazines, he has lectured upon Moliére and the French drama of the Seventeenth Century at the University of Chicago, Cornell, Bryn Mawr and other colleges. Member National Institute Arts and Letters. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (England) he has for his services to literature, received the following decorations: Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, and Officiër de l'Instruction Publique (France) Chevalier of the Order of St. James, for Literary, Scientific and Artistic merit (Portugal), and Officer of the Order of the Bust of the Liberator (Vanezuela), while for his services to Spain, during the Columbian Exposition, he was made a Chevalier of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic. He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati through his descent from Lieutenant John Eames of the Fifth Regiment of Continental Foot, and of the Illinois Society of Colonial Wars. He is a member of the Chicago, University and Onwentsia Clubs of Chicago, and has been president of the latter, and he is also a member of the Union Club of New York City, and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor married at Chicago, June 19, 1890, Rose, daughter of the late Charles B. Farwell, United Slates senator from Illinois, and they have three children: Adelaide, Wayne and Otis. Residence: Lake Forest, Illinois. Address: 100 Washington street, Chicago, Ill.
MEN OF NINETEEN-THIRTEEN, page 110
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Jun 8, 1920: Morning Press, oldest newspaper in Southern California
The Daily Round of Society
A telegram was received yesterday announcing the engagement of Mr. Hobart Chatfield Taylor to Mrs. Estelle Harbour Stillman of New York. Mrs. Stillman is the widow of George S. Stillman of New York and Detroit and was an Intimate friend of the late Mrs. Taylor. Mr. Stillman died in 1907. Mrs. Stillman has been living at Grassepoint Farms, Michigan, near Detroit. The announcement was made Saturday, May 5th, in New York city. Mr. Taylor left here for Chicago the day after La Primavera with Wallace Rice, the author of the popular masque, who spent the winter with Mr. Baylor. Mr Taylor visited Chicago with his son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield Taylor at their home at Lake Forest and saw for the first time a new grandchild named Adelaide, after Mr Taylor's daughter, Mrs. B.B. Whitman of Boston. He visited Mr. and Mrs. Whitman of Boston and when his son, Otis Chatfield Taylor, was through at Harvard, intended to return to Far Afield, his country place in Montecito.
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Only child of HENRY HOBART TAYLOR & ADELAIDE S. CHATFIELD
aka: HOBART CHATFIELD TAYLOR
Occupation: Author, literary figure, Spanish Consul in Chicago
Married (1): Jun 19, 1890, ROSE FARWELL, Lake Forest, Cook Co., Illinois
Four children:
1. Adelaide CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1891 - 1982
2. Wayne CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1893 - 1967
3. Otis CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1900 - 1948
4. Robert Farwell CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1908 - 1980
Married (2): Jun 23, 1920, ESTELLE (BARBOUR) STILLMAN, New York
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Upon the death of his uncle, Wayne Chatfield, his will provided that Hobart was to receive his fortune of $3,500,000.00 with the proviso that he would take his uncle's name. This he did and his name became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor. He was one of the first Americans to acquire a hyphenated name. At this time he was twenty-eight years of age. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886 and later married the youngest daughter of ex-senator and millionaire, Charles B. Farwell. The two fortunes which he inherited amounted to approximately four and a half million dollars. This was exclusive of his wife's inheritance. One of the newspaper accounts stated that he was very wealthy and did not dissipate in any hurtful way.
http://steamtraction.farmcollector.com/
Farm-life/Henry-Hobart-Taylor.aspx
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Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield, author; born in Chicago, March 24, 1865; son of Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (Chatfield) Taylor. His early and reparatory education was received at Trinity School, Tivoli, New York, and in European schools, he then entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated with the degree of B.S., in 1886; D. Lake Forest College, 1912. In 1888, in Chicago, he established "America," a weekly political review, which he conducted until 1890, then went abroad, and was special correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. He was consul of Spain at Chicago during the period of the World's Columbian Exposition, and a member of the Spanish Commission to that World's Fair. [p.110]
Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has contributed to all the principal magazines, and is author of "With Edged Tools"; "An American Peeress"; "Two Women and a Fool"; "The Land of the Castanet"; "The Vice of Fools"; "The Idle Born"; "The Crimson Wing"; "Goldrui: a Biography," just published (1913), etc. Besides contributing articles upon the French classic drama, to the magazines, he has lectured upon Moliére and the French drama of the Seventeenth Century at the University of Chicago, Cornell, Bryn Mawr and other colleges. Member National Institute Arts and Letters. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (England) he has for his services to literature, received the following decorations: Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, and Officiër de l'Instruction Publique (France) Chevalier of the Order of St. James, for Literary, Scientific and Artistic merit (Portugal), and Officer of the Order of the Bust of the Liberator (Vanezuela), while for his services to Spain, during the Columbian Exposition, he was made a Chevalier of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic. He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati through his descent from Lieutenant John Eames of the Fifth Regiment of Continental Foot, and of the Illinois Society of Colonial Wars. He is a member of the Chicago, University and Onwentsia Clubs of Chicago, and has been president of the latter, and he is also a member of the Union Club of New York City, and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor married at Chicago, June 19, 1890, Rose, daughter of the late Charles B. Farwell, United Slates senator from Illinois, and they have three children: Adelaide, Wayne and Otis. Residence: Lake Forest, Illinois. Address: 100 Washington street, Chicago, Ill.
MEN OF NINETEEN-THIRTEEN, page 110
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Jun 8, 1920: Morning Press, oldest newspaper in Southern California
The Daily Round of Society
A telegram was received yesterday announcing the engagement of Mr. Hobart Chatfield Taylor to Mrs. Estelle Harbour Stillman of New York. Mrs. Stillman is the widow of George S. Stillman of New York and Detroit and was an Intimate friend of the late Mrs. Taylor. Mr. Stillman died in 1907. Mrs. Stillman has been living at Grassepoint Farms, Michigan, near Detroit. The announcement was made Saturday, May 5th, in New York city. Mr. Taylor left here for Chicago the day after La Primavera with Wallace Rice, the author of the popular masque, who spent the winter with Mr. Baylor. Mr Taylor visited Chicago with his son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield Taylor at their home at Lake Forest and saw for the first time a new grandchild named Adelaide, after Mr Taylor's daughter, Mrs. B.B. Whitman of Boston. He visited Mr. and Mrs. Whitman of Boston and when his son, Otis Chatfield Taylor, was through at Harvard, intended to return to Far Afield, his country place in Montecito.
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aka: HOBART CHATFIELD TAYLOR
Occupation: Author, literary figure, Spanish Consul in Chicago
Married (1): Jun 19, 1890, ROSE FARWELL, Lake Forest, Cook Co., Illinois
Four children:
1. Adelaide CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1891 - 1982
2. Wayne CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1893 - 1967
3. Otis CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1900 - 1948
4. Robert Farwell CHATFIELD-TAYLOR
1908 - 1980
Married (2): Jun 23, 1920, ESTELLE (BARBOUR) STILLMAN, New York
===============
Upon the death of his uncle, Wayne Chatfield, his will provided that Hobart was to receive his fortune of $3,500,000.00 with the proviso that he would take his uncle's name. This he did and his name became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor. He was one of the first Americans to acquire a hyphenated name. At this time he was twenty-eight years of age. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886 and later married the youngest daughter of ex-senator and millionaire, Charles B. Farwell. The two fortunes which he inherited amounted to approximately four and a half million dollars. This was exclusive of his wife's inheritance. One of the newspaper accounts stated that he was very wealthy and did not dissipate in any hurtful way.
http://steamtraction.farmcollector.com/
Farm-life/Henry-Hobart-Taylor.aspx
===============
Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield, author; born in Chicago, March 24, 1865; son of Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (Chatfield) Taylor. His early and reparatory education was received at Trinity School, Tivoli, New York, and in European schools, he then entered Cornell University, from which he was graduated with the degree of B.S., in 1886; D. Lake Forest College, 1912. In 1888, in Chicago, he established "America," a weekly political review, which he conducted until 1890, then went abroad, and was special correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. He was consul of Spain at Chicago during the period of the World's Columbian Exposition, and a member of the Spanish Commission to that World's Fair. [p.110]
Mr. Chatfield-Taylor has contributed to all the principal magazines, and is author of "With Edged Tools"; "An American Peeress"; "Two Women and a Fool"; "The Land of the Castanet"; "The Vice of Fools"; "The Idle Born"; "The Crimson Wing"; "Goldrui: a Biography," just published (1913), etc. Besides contributing articles upon the French classic drama, to the magazines, he has lectured upon Moliére and the French drama of the Seventeenth Century at the University of Chicago, Cornell, Bryn Mawr and other colleges. Member National Institute Arts and Letters. A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (England) he has for his services to literature, received the following decorations: Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, and Officiër de l'Instruction Publique (France) Chevalier of the Order of St. James, for Literary, Scientific and Artistic merit (Portugal), and Officer of the Order of the Bust of the Liberator (Vanezuela), while for his services to Spain, during the Columbian Exposition, he was made a Chevalier of the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic. He is a member of the New Hampshire Society of the Cincinnati through his descent from Lieutenant John Eames of the Fifth Regiment of Continental Foot, and of the Illinois Society of Colonial Wars. He is a member of the Chicago, University and Onwentsia Clubs of Chicago, and has been president of the latter, and he is also a member of the Union Club of New York City, and the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. Mr. Chatfield-Taylor married at Chicago, June 19, 1890, Rose, daughter of the late Charles B. Farwell, United Slates senator from Illinois, and they have three children: Adelaide, Wayne and Otis. Residence: Lake Forest, Illinois. Address: 100 Washington street, Chicago, Ill.
MEN OF NINETEEN-THIRTEEN, page 110
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Jun 8, 1920: Morning Press, oldest newspaper in Southern California
The Daily Round of Society
A telegram was received yesterday announcing the engagement of Mr. Hobart Chatfield Taylor to Mrs. Estelle Harbour Stillman of New York. Mrs. Stillman is the widow of George S. Stillman of New York and Detroit and was an Intimate friend of the late Mrs. Taylor. Mr. Stillman died in 1907. Mrs. Stillman has been living at Grassepoint Farms, Michigan, near Detroit. The announcement was made Saturday, May 5th, in New York city. Mr. Taylor left here for Chicago the day after La Primavera with Wallace Rice, the author of the popular masque, who spent the winter with Mr. Baylor. Mr Taylor visited Chicago with his son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Chatfield Taylor at their home at Lake Forest and saw for the first time a new grandchild named Adelaide, after Mr Taylor's daughter, Mrs. B.B. Whitman of Boston. He visited Mr. and Mrs. Whitman of Boston and when his son, Otis Chatfield Taylor, was through at Harvard, intended to return to Far Afield, his country place in Montecito.
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