Burial Plot: Summit Section, Lot 694
Find A Grave Memorial# 69893844
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When father H.H. Taylor died (1875), he left his only child $50K, & the rest of his fortune to charity. However, son Hobart Chatfield Taylor contested the will & got the whole $2 million.
On top of this, Hobart inherited about $3.5 million from his "immensely wealthy" uncle Wayne Chatfield (1840-1892) of Cincinnati (his mother's brother), on the condition he add "Chatfield" to his last name. Thus Hobart Chatfield Taylor became Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor, investor & moderately successful author:
Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart CHATFIELD, author; born in Chicago, March 24, 1865; son of Henry Hobart Taylor and Adelaide (Chatfield) Taylor. His early and preparatory 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. 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 Moliere 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 Legion d'Honneur, and Officer 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 (Venezuela), 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, USA senator from Illinois, and they have three children : Adelaide, Wayne and Otis. Residence: Lake Forest, Illinois. Address: 100 Washington street, Chicago, Ill.
A near fatal heart attack suffered May 1937 while attending the coronation of King George VI had greatly sapped his strength.
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USA Census, 1900
Name: H. Chatfield Taylor
Event Place: Shields Township Lake Bluff vill., Lake Forest city & North Chicago vill, (pt.), Lake, Illinois
Gender: Male
Age: 35
Marital Status: Married
Race: White
Relationship to Head of Household: Head
Years Married: 10
Birth Date: Mar 1865
Birthplace: Illinois
Marriage Year (Estimated): 1890
Household Role Gender Age Birthplace
H. Chatfield Taylor Head M 35 Illinois
Rose Taylor Wife F 30 Illinois
Adelade Taylor Daughter F 9 England
Wayne Taylor Daughter F 7 Illinois
Ottis Taylor Son M 1 Illinois
Darlze Howard Servant F 49 England
Mary Kelly Servant F 36 Ireland
Murin Elvie Servant F 26 Denmark
William Wilkins Servant M 24 England
Hannah Meene Servant F 39 Sweden
May E O Malia Servant F 30 Ireland
Minnie Mcgahan Servant F Ireland
District: 138 , Sheet Number and Letter: 9A , Household ID: 147 , Line Number: 41 , Affiliate Name: The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) , Affiliate Publication Number: T623 , GS Film Number: 1240314 , Digital Folder Number: 004113773 , Image Number: 00776
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USA Census, 1910
Name Hobart C Taylor
Event Place Chicago Ward 21, Cook, Illinois
Gender Male
Age 45
Marital Status Married
Race White
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Birth Year (Estimated) 1865
Birthplace Illinois
Father's Birthplace Illinois
Mother's Birthplace New York
Sheet Letter A
Sheet Number 10
Hobart C Taylor Head M 45 Illinois
Rose Taylor Wife F 40 Illinois
Adelaides Taylor Dau F 19 England
Wayne Taylor Son M 16 Illinois
Ottis Taylor Son M 11 Illinois
Robert Taylor Son M 2 Illinois
Gules Biss?Tt Servant M 33 Switzerland
Minnie Biss?Tt Servant F 29 Germany
Louise Djeurberg Servant F 35 Sweden
Katerine Harmon Servant F 32 Illinois
Agusto Larson Servant F 38 Sweden
O'Malley Servant M 40 Ireland
Minnie Mcgah* Servant F 38 Ireland
Joseph K Mort Servant M 30 England
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USA Census, 1920
Name Hobert C Taylor
Event Place Montecito, Santa Barbara, California
Gender Male
Age 54
Marital Status Widowed
Race White
Can Read Yes
Can Write Yes
Relationship to Head of Household Head
Own or Rent Own
Birth Year (Estimated) 1866
Birthplace Illinois
Father's Birthplace New York
Mother's Birthplace Illinois
Sheet Letter A
Sheet Number 15
Hobert C Taylor Head M 54 Illinois
Robert T Taylor Son M 11 Illinois
Wallace Rice Boarder M 60 Canada
Mary E Omalley Servant F 55 Ireland
Victor Zanoi Servant M 36 Italy
Minnie Vissat Servant F 40 Germany
Minie Mcgahan Servant F 53 Ireland
Delia Mccrosn Servant F 41 Ireland
Anne Mchale Servant F 42 Germany
Joe Mchale Boarder M 10 California
Julius Vissat Servant M 38 Switzerland
