Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Albert Pierce December 18, 1872 - 
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Source: The Story of Hawaii and Its Builders, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Ltd. Territory of Hawaii, 1925
Author: Edited by George F. Nellist

ALBERT PIERCE TAYLOR, Journalist and Author. His life history replete with 
romance and adventure, Albert P. Taylor, journalist, author and, in 1925, 
librarian of the Archives of Hawaii, has long been identified with Hawaiian 
affairs, having come to Honolulu in political movements of the time, being 
secretary in 1897 to Lorrin A. Thurston, then a member of the Annexation 
Commission to Washington, D.C. A veteran journalist of Hawaii, having been a 
member of the Advertiser staff for many years, Mr. Taylor has gained 
distinction as a writer and is author of “Under Hawaiian Skies,” a book 
dealing with historic and romantic aspects of the islands. Another literary 
contribution which caused wide comment was a magazine article, “Fighting a 
Typhoon,” recounting experiences endured on the army transport Siam, conveying 
animals to the Philippines in 1899.
  Born at St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 18, 1872, Mr. Taylor is descended from English, 
Scottish and Irish ancestors. His father was born in Nova Scotia and was a 
relative of Sir John Macdonald, first premier of Canada. Mr. Taylor’s great-
grandfather was an English army officer who settled in Canada. On his mother’s 
side he is descended from Cornelius Pierce of Staunton, Va., who later removed 
to Illinois.
  Receiving his early education in the schools of Leadville, Colo., Mr. Taylor 
later removed to Salt Lake City, Utah, where he was graduated from St. Mark’s 
High School, Episcopal, in 1890.
  Going to St. Louis again in 1896, Mr. Taylor became a clerk in the 
headquarters of the National Silver Party. He was appointed assistant 
secretary of the Silver Party Convention, July 22, 1896, when Bryan was 
nominated for president. Later he went to Washington, opened the National 
Silver Party headquarters and was in general charge throughout the campaign.
  A consulship promised to Mr. Taylor by Silver Party leaders, vanished when 
McKinley was elected president in 1896, and he carried out a deferred plan to 
join the rebels in Cuba. A personal friend of Estrada Palma, then the head of 
the Cuban junta in New York, it was planned that Mr. Taylor should go to Cuba 
with messages for Cuban agents and with orders to join General Maceo in the 
field. He was arrested after landing in Cuba by order of General Weyler, was 
held in detention and later deported, arriving penniless in New York.
  Employed by the patent law office of Wedderburn & Co., Washington, D.C., for 
a short time, Mr. Taylor later in 1897 joined Lorrin A. Thurston at 
Washington. He arrived in Honolulu on the transport Arizona, Aug. 28, 1898, 
was commissioned a secretary to ex-governor W. F. Frear, then a member of the 
commission appointed to draft the Organic Act, and later served as deputy 
clerk of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. During the Spanish-American War, Mr. 
Taylor was in active service in the Philippines and returned to Honolulu, Nov. 
16, 1899. Joining the editorial staff of the Honolulu Advertiser at that time, 
Mr. Taylor continued there until 1907, when he was appointed chief of 
detectives of Honolulu. He returned to the newspaper staff in 1908 and 
remained until 1913, when he was made secretary of the Hawaiian Fair 
Commission to the Panama-Pacific Exposition. He was with the commission until 
1915 and was responsible for the establishment of the Hawaii Promotion 
Committee branch in San Francisco in 1913. He was appointed secretary of the 
Hawaiian Promotion Committee in 1915. He rejoined the staff of the Advertiser 
in 1917, resigning in 1924 to accept his present position.
  Mr. Taylor and Miss Ella De Mund of Elkhart, Ind., were married at Baltimore 
in 1896, a daughter, Mrs. Wesley Peck, residing in California. He married his 
second wife, Emma Ahuena Davison, in Honolulu in 1903. A member of a 
distinguished Honolulu family, Mrs. Taylor is regarded as an authority on 
Hawaiian genealogy, history and language, and is a member of the Hawaiian 
Historical and Hawaiian Folklore Commissions.


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