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Harry Persons Taber
b. 1865
A printer, editor, and chemist from East Aurora, New York, he is best remembered for his connection to the Roycroft movement and for editing The Philistine. His career ranged from journalism and publishing to running a chemical laboratory, which gives his books an unusual mix of literary flair and practical know-how.
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The matrimonial bureau
by Carolyn Wells, Harry Persons Taber
About the author
Born in East Aurora, New York, in 1865, Harry Persons Taber built a varied career that moved across journalism, printing, authorship, and chemistry. Library archival material describes him as a printer, author, and chemist, and notes that before joining the Roycroft circle he worked in Colorado and on the staff of the Denver Republican in the 1890s.
Taber is best known for his work with Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft community in East Aurora, where he was an early member and served as editor of The Philistine. That role places him close to one of the best-known American Arts and Crafts publishing ventures of the period, and it helps explain why his name still appears in connection with Roycroft history as well as in public-domain literary catalogs.
Later in life, he was associated with Taber Laboratories in Wilmington, Delaware. He died in 1951. His surviving legacy is a mix of books, periodical work, and archival papers that show a writer whose life reached well beyond a single profession.