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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)

    FRED H. TAFT, lawyer, of Santa Monica, was born at Pierrepont Manor,
Jefferson County, New York, April 4th, 1857. He is a son of Reverend Stephen H.
Taft, now resident of Sawtelle. A comprehensive sketch of the life of the father
appears elsewhere in this work (see index), which throws some light upon the
earlier surroundings and influences under which the subject of this brief notice
was reared. He was about six years of age when the family located as pioneers in
Iowa. He was educated at Humboldt College, Humboldt, Iowa, graduating from that
institution in 1878. From 1874 to 1882 he edited and published the Humboldt
Kosmos. In 1883 he was one of the founders of the Hardin County Citizen at Iowa
Falls, Iowa. For four years, beginning in 1884, he was associated in the conduct
of the Fort Dodge (Iowa) Messenger. Thereafter he followed semi-newspaper work
and commercial lines in Sioux City, Iowa, in the meantime reading law. He was
admitted to the bar while at Sioux City, and practiced there until the close of
1892. January 1st, 1893, he arrived in California, and the following year formed
a law partnership with Richard R. Tanner, the firm now being Tanner, Taft &
Odell, with offices in Los Angeles and Santa Monica. From 1902 to his
resignation at the end of 1907, he served Santa Monica satisfactorily as City
Attorney. In his religious preferences Mr. Taft is a Unitarian, and his lodge
affiliations are confined to the International Order of Good Templars, of which
he is an active member. Mr. Taft married at Humboldt, Iowa, in 1881, Miss
Frances M. Welch, and they have two children living—Muriel and Harris, graduates
of Stanford University. The family home is El Shacketo, at the corner of Oregon
Avenue and Sixth Street.

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Ingersoll's century history, Santa Monica Bay cities: prefaced with a brief
history of the state of California, a condensed history of Los Angeles County,
1542 to 1908: supplemented with an encyclopedia of local biography and
embellished with views of historic landmarks and portraits of representative
people.

Los Angeles: Luther A. Ingersoll (1908)


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