Statewide County HI Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Henry Albert June 23, 1867 - 
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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

HENRY ALBERT TAYLOR, Safe Deposit Custodian. When the Hawaiian revolution of 
Jan. 17, 1893, began, Henry A. Taylor was working as a carpenter, installing 
temporary gun racks for the blue-jackets from the U. S. S. Boston. He at once 
responded to the call for volunteers for the armed forces of the Provisional 
Government and from the front veranda of the court house saw Queen 
Liliuokalani leave Iolani Palace for her private residence at Waikiki. At the 
moment when the Queen’s carriage passed out at the front gate a soldier of the 
Royal Guard appeared on the center tower of the palace and, in a most dramatic 
manner, lowered the royal standard from the flagstaff. No significance was 
attached to this incident at the time, as it was the custom to raise or lower 
the flag whenever the Queen entered of left the palace, but as later events 
proved it marked the end of Monarchy in Hawaii.
  During the busy, exciting weeks that followed, no flag was flown from the 
palace flagstaff and then, by a curious coincidence, it became the duty of 
Henry A. Taylor, as “sergeant of the guard,” to raise the Provisional 
Government colors on the same flagstaff from which the royal standard had 
fluttered down on that fateful 17th day of January.
  Born in England, June 23, 1867, Mr. Taylor is the son of Charles Rigden and 
Mary Ann Taylor. He came to America in 1885, and followed the trade of house 
carpenter at Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y., occasionally doing odd jobs 
at “Sagamore Hill,” the home of Theodore Roosevelt.
  Arriving in California in 1887, Mr. Taylor entered the employ of the 
Southern Pacific railroad, working in various parts of the state until his 
departure for Hawaii in Jan., 1890. Here he worked for the Oahu Railway and 
Land Co., 1891, and at Kahuku plantation, 1892.
  After the revolution of 1893, Mr. Taylor continued to serve in the military 
forces of the Provisional Government and the Republic of Hawaii. He was 
closely associated with the history-making events of the insurrection of Jan., 
1895, and in 1897 was promoted to first sergeant. He was honorably discharged 
in 1898, the year of annexation, and two years later, Oct. 5, 1900, became a 
naturalized citizen of the United States.
  Mr. Taylor and Margaret Sofia Jacobson were married March 30, 1901. In 
October of the same year they began work with Dr. Sinclair, Mr. Taylor as 
assistant superintendent and Mrs. Taylor as matron, first at the Victoria 
Hospital and later at Leahi Home, where they transformed the place from a 
wilderness of red dirt, rocks and lantana to a comfortable home for the sick. 
Mrs. Taylor resigned in 1913 and Mr. Taylor in 1914. Mr. Taylor was in the U. 
S. Immigration Service from 1915 to 1917 and in April of the latter year began 
his present employment as safe deposit vault custodian with Hawaiian Trust Co. 
He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and the Knights of Pythias.


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