Robert Taggart and Jane Graham Haugh

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Husband Robert Taggart ^{1 2}

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           Born: 15 Oct 1831 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3
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           Died: 23 Mar 1909 4
         Buried:  - Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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         Father: John Taggart (1799-1890) 1 5
         Mother: Jane Porter (1798-1888) 1 6

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Angeline Smith (1836-1920) 4 - 26 Oct 1854 4

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Wife Jane Graham Haugh ⁴

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         Father: William Haugh (      -      ) 4
         Mother: Jennet [Unk] (      -      ) 4

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General Notes: Husband - Robert Taggart

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He was born in the Taggart mansion house in Irwin Ave., McClure Township, later the Twenty-second Ward of Pittsburgh, North Side. He attended the schools of Manchester, received a business training at Duff's College, then Duff's Academy, and an English training at Dr. Nathaniel Todd's well-known Institute, the Pittsburgh and Allegheny English and Classical Seminary.
In 1851 he formed a partnership with John Brown and George Martin to carry on a dry goods business in Federal St., North Side, but withdrew from the firm in 1853 and in the same year went to California, rounding Cape Horn on the way out. He returned in 1854 and entered into partnership with his brother, Andrew C. Taggart, in the tanning and leather business under the firm name of R. and A. Taggart. The following year they took over the O'Neill plant on Herr's Island and operated the two under the name of the Duquesne Leather and Tanning Business. In 1859 the heavy floods in the Allegheny River caused great damage to these plants and the destruction was completed by a windstorm. In the course of reconstruction the entire plant was again destroyed by fire. A new plant was erected, to be for a third time destroyed by fire, when the Taggart Brothers sold the land to the Calleries who reconstructed the plant. Robert Taggart then established a wholesale and retail shoe business in Federal St., under the name of Taggart and Simon, but which was later to become R. Taggart and Sons.
He was one of the first burgesses of Duquesne Borough and in Mar. 23, 1857 was elected its treasurer. He served several terms in the Common Councils of Allegheny but was inclined to business rather than to politics. He was a member of the Board of School Directors, one of the founders and charter members of the Fourth United Presbyterian Church of the North Side, and a director in the Uniondale Cemetery Corporation. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Kennel Club and of the Rod and Gun Club, and was said to have been one of the best shots on the wing in western Pennsylvania. He was a member of the first Gymnastic Association of the North Side of which his brother Andrew was an organizer and director in 1859.

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General Notes: Wife - Jane Graham Haugh

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She was a niece of Mrs. James Bryce of Pittsburgh. James Bryce, born at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, Nov. 5, 1812, was the founder of the firm of Bryce, McKee and Company, the well-known glass house at Birmingham,
South Side, Pittsburgh, later known as Bryce, Richards and Company, Bryce, Walker and Company, and Bryce Brothers.

1 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 289.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 88.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 180.

4 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 181.

5 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 88, 156.

6 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 80, 156.