William Howard Taft
American
William Howard Taft was a notable United States President and Chief Justice of the United States. - AsNotedIn
Lineage
- Father Alphonso Taft
- Brother: Charles Phelps Taft
- Son: Charles Phelps Taft II
- Son: Robert A Taft
William Howard Taft was a notable United States President and Chief Justice of the United States. - AsNotedIn
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1857/09/15 | Louisa Maria Taft, wife of Alphonso Taft, gives birth to a son, William Howard Taft, in a first floor room of the new addition at family home in Cincinnati, Ohio. | William Howard Taft National Historic Site | Cincinnati, OH | ||||
1870/00/00 | The Taft family attends the Congregational Church (lost) at 8th and Plum Streets in Cincinnati. | Faith | First Congregational-Unitarian Church | Cincinnati, OH | |||
1874/00/00 | William Taft enters Yale where he will join the Skull and Bones where his father was a founder. | Life | Skull and Bones Hall, Yale | New Haven, CT | |||
1878/06/00 | William Howard Taft graduates from Yale and returns to Cincinnati, Ohio. | Education | Yale University | New Haven, CT | |||
1886/00/00 | William Howard Taft and his bride stay at Auburn Avenue residence for a month while their new home is completed. | Home | William Howard Taft National Historic Site | Cincinnati, OH | |||
1908/07/00 | The "Homestead" welcomes William Howard Taft for a two month stay. | Guest | The Homestead | Hot Springs | |||
1909/02/00 | I know Adolphus Busch very well and I wonder if he would like to turn these gardens over for a golf links. I would like to play golf here and sit down under those beautiful trees when I got tired. - President Taft | Visitor | Busch Gardens Cultural Landscape Historic District | Pasadena, CA | |||
1909/03/04 | Inaugural Ball for William Howard Taft is held in the Pension Building. | President | National Building Museum | Washington, DC | |||
1909/04/00 | William Howard Taft is the first to use the Presidential Suite. An area where the President, State Department and Congressional leaders receive distinguished visitors arriving at Union Station. | US President | Union Station | Washington, DC | |||
1909/05/19 | President William Taft is a guest at Centre Hill. He is in Petersburg to dedicate a monument to the Pennsylvanians and General Hartranft, who fought at the Siege of Petersburg. | Guest | Centre Hill | Petersburg | |||
1909/07/00 | Nellie Taft leases a summer home, the fourteen-room Stetson Hall of the late John B Stetson, located on Woodbury Point in Beverly. After 1910, the cottage will be cut it in half and floated across the harbor to Peaches Point in Marblehead. | Home | Beverly | Massachusetts | |||
1909/07/00 | Beverly Board of Trade offers Taft office space in the Mason Building. He will have to climb the marble stairs, as there is no elevator, but he will be able listen to music provided by an itinerant hurdy gurdy man. Taft may have only used the office once. | Office | Odd Fellows' Hall | Beverly | |||
1909/09/14 | The mayor of Beverly, the Governor of Massachusetts and President William Taft watch the Grand Army of the Republic parade from the reviewing stand in Beverly, Massachusetts. | Dignitary | Beverly | Massachusetts | |||
1909/11/06 | US President William Howard Taft visits the R Goodwyn Rhett family at 116 Broad Street, Charleston. | Guest | John Rutledge House Inn | Charleston, SC | |||
1910/07/30 | Henry W Peabody's widow leases her 18 room Peabody Cottage, for one year and renewable for a second year to President Taft. | Home | Parramatta | Beverly | |||
1910/07/30 | Office space is provided to President Taft at the Pickering House on Lothrop Street. "the president can visit the offices frequently. He has never set foot in the Board of Trade Rooms but once." Beverly Citizen Newspaper | Office | Pickering House, Beverly | Beverly | |||
1911/05/23 | New York Public Library Main Branch officially opens | Master of Ceremony | New York Public Library | New York City | |||
1911/07/22 | After a picnic on the Manassas Battlefield, the crowd returns to the Prince William County Courthouse to listen to a speech by President William H Taft. | Dignitary | Prince William County Courthouse | Manassas | Manassas National Jubilee of Peace | ||
1911/11/09 | From the chapel porch, W Taft gives a short speech on his appreciation of Sewanee and good wishes for her future. Taft visits the library and attends a reception. The Associated Press reporter refused to leave the train as he felt he was being ignored. | Dignitary | Sewanee: University of the South | Sewanee, TN | |||
1911/11/11 | After traveling by rail all day through Tennessee, President Taft rode thirty-five miles by auto late this afternoon over the battlefields of Chickamauga, where one of the most desperate battles of the civil war was fought. - NY Times | Dignitary | Chickamauga Battlefield | Georgia | |||
1911/11/11 | President William Howard Taft visits the University of Chattanooga and attends a banquet at the Hotel Patten, Chattanooga. | Dignitary | Patten Towers | Chattanooga | |||
1912/01/18 | Lucretia Roberts Cromwell marries Edward T Stotesbury at his townhouse in Philadelphia. | Guest | Stotesbury Mansion | Philadelphia, PA | Marriage of Lucretia Cromwell and Edward Stotesbury | ||
1917/03/31 | In commemoration of the centenary of the Abraham Lincoln's birth, President William H Taft unveils George Grey Barnard's bronze statue, Abraham Lincoln, at Lytle Park. | Dignitary | Barnard's Abraham Lincoln (sculpture) | Lytle Park, Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | ||
1918/03/01 | Frank Hiscock picks up Howard Taft at the Syracuse station and brings him to the Hiscock home where they are met by the judge's family. After visiting with the family, Taft retires to the blue room. | Guest | The Barnes-Hiscock House | Syracuse, NY | |||
1918/03/03 | Taft advises reporters "Don't eat too much, don't talk too much, and above all, don't worry too much. There you have the recipe it has taken me more than half a century to find." Taft left Syracuse just past midnight on March 3. | Guest | The Barnes-Hiscock House | Syracuse, NY | |||
1918/03/03 | Howard Taft attends a dinner at the University Club as the guest of the Syracuse University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi. After the banquet, Taft made his way to Crouse College where gives a speech on "The War and the Society of Nations." | Speaker | Crouse College, Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | |||
1918/04/14 | Former President William Taft arrives at Carbondale Station on his way to speak to the Southern Illinois Teacher Association. | Visitor | Illinois Central Railroad Passenger Depot | Carbondale, IL | |||
1925/03/04 | Chief Justice, William Taft administers the presidential oath of office to Calvin Coolidge on the eastern portico of the US Capitol in Washington. It was the first US Presidential inauguration to be nationally broadcast on radio. | Chief Justice of the United States | Eastern Portico, US Capitol | United States Capitol | |||
1929/00/00 | Chief Justice William Howard Taft argues for the Court to have its own headquarters to distance itself from Congress as an independent branch of government. | Work | United States Supreme Court Building | Washington, DC |
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