Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson dealt in New Jersey with the chemistry involved in preserving a fresh water supply; did tuberculosis work in Cincinnati and in Brooklyn; and headed efforts in Sielly during the last war to prevent tuberculosis. He has served with the Division of Geuito-Infections Diseases of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for the past 12 years...
This quality dour Alphonso Taft brought down from the dour uplands of Vermont in the 1830s. Grandfather Taft, Yale '33, looking for a quiet, middle-class town in which to practice law (his goal: yearly income of $3,000 to $5,000), was much taken with Cincinnati. There he lived abstemiously, labored industriously, austerely chose himself a Vermont bride. Fanny Phelps died after bearing him five children (three died in childhood) ; and after due consideration, Grandfather Taft chose happy, loving Louise Torrey, who bore him four sons and a daughter. Second of these sons was William Howard Taft, Yale...
...Dimple. Their elder son was Robert Alphonso Taft, born Sept. 8, 1889 in a Victorian house with colored-glass windows and scroll-trimmed porches in Cincinnati's Walnut Hills, on a bluff above the yellow Ohio River. Robert did not inherit the Taft dimple. His younger brother, Charles Phelps, got that, as well as his father's famous ability to chuckle along with people, make friends, have...
...from nothing." Bob Taft came up from plenty. Says he, who had more than one silver spoon in his cradle: "One with a family name has a lot to live up to." But Lawyer Taft, Yale '10, put the spoons to work. Uncle Charles had a chunk of Cincinnati's Street Railway System, wanted the complicated setup reorganized. Specializing in dry, dull, technical cases, Bob Taft worked on this complex chore off-&-on for eleven years, finished straightening it out in 1925. In this job, as in many another since, he displayed his talent for figures, often amazing...
...school came Brother Charley Taft, Yale '18, and a new law firm, Taft & Taft, hung out its shingle in Cincinnati. Later enlarged, the firm is now Taft, Stettinius & Hollister, has six partners. Charley dropped out two years ago when he was elected to the City Council. Taking no criminal or marital cases, the Taft firm steadily built up a solid corporate practice locally (Gruen Watch, Globe-Wernicke, Cincinnati Milling Machine, etc.). Its business base was the management of estates and trusts-especially those of Uncle Charles (d. 1929) and Aunt Annie (d. 1931). Largest asset of these: the Times...