23 Nov 1891 The Herald
BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Dr. Amon Canfield Taber, Surgeon of John A. Rawlins Post, 1, Department of the Potomac, died at his home in Washington on Sunday morning, Nov. 21. Comrade Taber was born in Litchfield County Conn., Dec 30 1807 and was consequently nearly 84 years of age.
He resided for many years in Auburn N.Y. where he had practiced his profession and held for years the position of City Physician. When the war broke out he was active in inducing enlistments in the Union army, and in April 1864, he came to Washington, and entered the Medical Department of the United States Army on Analostan (then called Mason's Island) near the Arlington Cemetery, on the Virginia side of the river. He was continuously employed thereafter in the Freedman's Bureau, as Attending Surgeon, until that Bureau ceased to exist. He was then sent to Louisiana as Attending Surgeon for detachments of Regular troops stationed in that State during the Reconstruction period. Returning to Washington in 1868, he has since resided here with his family, devoting his attention to civil engineering.
Dr. Taber's kindly disposition endeared him to all who knew him, and his death has removed a well known figure from the Capital city. Always possessing a sturdy, vigorous constitution, few would have supposed him to have been an octogenarian. He leaves a widow and four children, his eldest son being the present Junior Vice Commander of the Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, and who is also a member of the same Post and Masonic bodies with which his father was connected.
Dr. Taber was buried at Arlington Nation Cemetery on Tuesday Nov 24, with full Grand Army and Masonic honors.
Courtesy M Reese volunteer FAG
BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Dr. Amon Canfield Taber, Surgeon of John A. Rawlins Post, 1, Department of the Potomac, died at his home in Washington on Sunday morning, Nov. 21. Comrade Taber was born in Litchfield County Conn., Dec 30 1807 and was consequently nearly 84 years of age.
He resided for many years in Auburn N.Y. where he had practiced his profession and held for years the position of City Physician. When the war broke out he was active in inducing enlistments in the Union army, and in April 1864, he came to Washington, and entered the Medical Department of the United States Army on Analostan (then called Mason's Island) near the Arlington Cemetery, on the Virginia side of the river. He was continuously employed thereafter in the Freedman's Bureau, as Attending Surgeon, until that Bureau ceased to exist. He was then sent to Louisiana as Attending Surgeon for detachments of Regular troops stationed in that State during the Reconstruction period. Returning to Washington in 1868, he has since resided here with his family, devoting his attention to civil engineering.
Dr. Taber's kindly disposition endeared him to all who knew him, and his death has removed a well known figure from the Capital city. Always possessing a sturdy, vigorous constitution, few would have supposed him to have been an octogenarian. He leaves a widow and four children, his eldest son being the present Junior Vice Commander of the Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, and who is also a member of the same Post and Masonic bodies with which his father was connected.
Dr. Taber was buried at Arlington Nation Cemetery on Tuesday Nov 24, with full Grand Army and Masonic honors.
Courtesy M Reese volunteer FAG
23 Nov 1891 The Herald
BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Dr. Amon Canfield Taber, Surgeon of John A. Rawlins Post, 1, Department of the Potomac, died at his home in Washington on Sunday morning, Nov. 21. Comrade Taber was born in Litchfield County Conn., Dec 30 1807 and was consequently nearly 84 years of age.
He resided for many years in Auburn N.Y. where he had practiced his profession and held for years the position of City Physician. When the war broke out he was active in inducing enlistments in the Union army, and in April 1864, he came to Washington, and entered the Medical Department of the United States Army on Analostan (then called Mason's Island) near the Arlington Cemetery, on the Virginia side of the river. He was continuously employed thereafter in the Freedman's Bureau, as Attending Surgeon, until that Bureau ceased to exist. He was then sent to Louisiana as Attending Surgeon for detachments of Regular troops stationed in that State during the Reconstruction period. Returning to Washington in 1868, he has since resided here with his family, devoting his attention to civil engineering.
Dr. Taber's kindly disposition endeared him to all who knew him, and his death has removed a well known figure from the Capital city. Always possessing a sturdy, vigorous constitution, few would have supposed him to have been an octogenarian. He leaves a widow and four children, his eldest son being the present Junior Vice Commander of the Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, and who is also a member of the same Post and Masonic bodies with which his father was connected.
Dr. Taber was buried at Arlington Nation Cemetery on Tuesday Nov 24, with full Grand Army and Masonic honors.
Courtesy M Reese volunteer FAG
BURIED IN ARLINGTON
Dr. Amon Canfield Taber, Surgeon of John A. Rawlins Post, 1, Department of the Potomac, died at his home in Washington on Sunday morning, Nov. 21. Comrade Taber was born in Litchfield County Conn., Dec 30 1807 and was consequently nearly 84 years of age.
He resided for many years in Auburn N.Y. where he had practiced his profession and held for years the position of City Physician. When the war broke out he was active in inducing enlistments in the Union army, and in April 1864, he came to Washington, and entered the Medical Department of the United States Army on Analostan (then called Mason's Island) near the Arlington Cemetery, on the Virginia side of the river. He was continuously employed thereafter in the Freedman's Bureau, as Attending Surgeon, until that Bureau ceased to exist. He was then sent to Louisiana as Attending Surgeon for detachments of Regular troops stationed in that State during the Reconstruction period. Returning to Washington in 1868, he has since resided here with his family, devoting his attention to civil engineering.
Dr. Taber's kindly disposition endeared him to all who knew him, and his death has removed a well known figure from the Capital city. Always possessing a sturdy, vigorous constitution, few would have supposed him to have been an octogenarian. He leaves a widow and four children, his eldest son being the present Junior Vice Commander of the Department of the Potomac, Grand Army of the Republic, and who is also a member of the same Post and Masonic bodies with which his father was connected.
Dr. Taber was buried at Arlington Nation Cemetery on Tuesday Nov 24, with full Grand Army and Masonic honors.
Courtesy M Reese volunteer FAG
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