Robert Porter Taggart and Alyda Alma Magnus

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Husband Robert Porter Taggart ¹

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           Born: 15 Apr 1897 - Sewickley, Allegheny Co, PA 2
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         Father: George Bradford Taggart (1859-1910) 3
         Mother: Jane Baxter Kilgore (      -1913) 1

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       Marriage: 3 Apr 1920 2

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Wife Alyda Alma Magnus ²

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           Born: 2 Dec 1896 2
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         Father: George Magnus (      -1900) 2 4
         Mother: Vianna M. Ewing (1854-1906) 5

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Children

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1 F Sherley Speer Taggart ²

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           Born: 31 Dec 1921 2
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General Notes: Husband - Robert Porter Taggart

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He enlisted in the United States Navy, Dec. 5, 1917 and was sent as a seaman on guard duty to Naval Base No. 17, Capt. O. G. Murfin in charge. He was stationed at Alness, Scotland, from Feb. 6, 1918, to Feb. 28, 1919, and was attached to Naval Base No. 18 at Inverness from Mar. 3, 1919, to Apr. 7, 1919. He was then sent aboard the U. S. S. Stribling, a torpedo boat destroyer, and was in the Adriatic from Apr. 12 to June 26, 1919, in the capacity of coxswain of the motor sailor; W. R. Van Auken, Lieutenant, Commander. He was honorably discharged Aug. 12, 1919, but before returning home made a tour of Sicily, Spain, Turkey in Asia and in Europe, Greece, Austria, Italy, France and Scotland. Upon his return to Pittsburgh he entered the Sales Accounting Department of the National Tube Company but resigned to enter the Central National Bank of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania.

1 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 183.

2 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 186.

3 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 182.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1915), Pg 809.

5 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 399.