Robert Taggart and Angeline Smith
Husband Robert Taggart 1 2
Born: 15 Oct 1831 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 3 Christened: Died: 23 Mar 1909 4 Buried: - Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
Father: John Taggart (1799-1890) 1 5 Mother: Jane Porter (1798-1888) 1 6
Marriage: 26 Oct 1854 4
Other Spouse: Jane Graham Haugh ( - ) 4
Wife Angeline Smith 4
Born: 24 Jun 1836 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 4 Christened: Died: 31 Jan 1920 4 Buried: - Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA
Father: George W. Smith ( - ) 4 Mother: Ellen Thompson ( - ) 4
Children
1 M John Charles Brown Taggart 7
Born: 21 Sep 1856 7 Christened: Died: 10 Jul 1912 7 Buried:
2 F Jane Angeline Taggart 7
Born: 21 Apr 1858 - Duquesne, Allegheny Co, PA 7 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Samuel Henry McKee ( - ) 7
3 M George Bradford Taggart 7
Born: 26 Aug 1859 - Duquesne, Allegheny Co, PA 8 Christened: Died: 17 May 1910 - Wilkinsburg, Allegheny Co, PA 8 Buried: - Uniondale Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PASpouse: Jane Baxter Kilgore ( -1913) 8 Marr: 24 Sep 1885 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 8
4 F Ellen Thompson Taggart 7
Born: 6 Apr 1861 9 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: John L. Carson (1860- ) 9 Marr: 25 Oct 1888 9
5 F Ada Blanche Taggart 7
Born: 23 Jan 1863 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 10 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Galen C. Hartman, Esq. ( - ) 11 Marr: 16 Oct 1889 11
6 F Carrie Smith Taggart 7
Born: 28 Sep 1866 - Allegheny City, Allegheny Co, PA 12 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Frank A. Minnemeyer ( - ) 12Spouse: William James Francis ( - ) 12 Marr: 2 Nov 1917 12
7 F Laura Edna Taggart 7
Born: 14 Sep 1871 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 12 Christened: Died: 2 Nov 1928 12 Buried:Spouse: Isaac Lincoln Jones, Esq. ( - ) 12 Marr: 6 Oct 1898 12
8 F Mary Watson Taggart 7
Born: 22 Aug 1873 - Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA 13 Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: Penn Sylian Spangler ( - ) 13 Marr: 4 Jun 1903 13
9 M Robert Dale Taggart 7
Born: 17 Jul 1876 7 Christened: Died: Buried:
General Notes: Husband - Robert Taggart
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.
General Notes: Wife - Angeline Smith
She attended the public schools and Mrs. Benham's Select School for Young Ladies. She studied the piano under Miss Kitty Bingham and voice culture under Professor Bingham and was well known in the musical circles of Pittsburgh. She was a member of the Philharmonic Society, an early musical organization, and for a time soprano soloist at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church. Her first public appearance was in a concert given in 1852, when Louis Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, was in Pittsburgh. In 1853 a quartette, consisting of Miss Smith, Miss Mary White (daughter of David Nye White, owner and editor of the Gazette), William Slack and James McBriar, gave a charity concert. The local papers in their criticisms proclaimed Miss Smith a second Jenny Lind.
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.
7 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 182.
8 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 183.
9 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 187.
10 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 190.
11 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 191.
12 Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 192.
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Blanche T. Hartman, Genealogy of the Nesbit, Ross, Porter, Taggart Families of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA: Privately printed, 1929), Pg 193.
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