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Katharine Haviland Taylor

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Katharine Haviland Taylor

Birth
Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA
Death
28 Nov 1941 (aged 50)
Saint Cloud, Osceola County, Florida, USA
Burial
York, York County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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Miss Taylor was a resident of the Saint Cloud, Florida area when she died there of chronic myocarditis.

She was a writer and she was single.

Her father was Arthur R. Taylor, of Montpelier, Vermont and Emma Louise Haviland, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Her nephew, R.T. Denues, of Bruceton, PA was the informant of record.

Miss Taylor was cremated and ashes sent to Eiselstein-Wigginton Funeral Home.

Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 26, August 11, 1941 - July 4, 1942, p. 179
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Tampa Tribune 29 Nov. 1941, Sat., p. 2

Katherine H. Taylor, Novelist, Dies at Her St. Cloud Home

St. Cloud, Nov. 28 - (Special) - Katherine Haviland Taylor, 50, known for many years as a novelist, playwright and screen writer, died here today, three weeks after coming south after a prolonged illness at her York, Pa., summer home. She recently acquired a winter home here.

She was born in Mankato, Minn., the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Arthur H. Taylor. She began writing more than 25 years ago, and her first published novel was Cecilia of the Pink Roses, in 1917. Her most recent novel was Back Roads, published in 1939.

In recent years she has written short stories for many leading magazines as well as original screen plays.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Constance H.T. Denues, Seerne Park, Md., and Mrs. Grace T. Guernsey, St. Louis, Mo. Burial will be at York, Pa.
Miss Taylor was a resident of the Saint Cloud, Florida area when she died there of chronic myocarditis.

She was a writer and she was single.

Her father was Arthur R. Taylor, of Montpelier, Vermont and Emma Louise Haviland, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.

Her nephew, R.T. Denues, of Bruceton, PA was the informant of record.

Miss Taylor was cremated and ashes sent to Eiselstein-Wigginton Funeral Home.

Source: Carey Hand Funeral Home Records, Orlando, Florida Register Volume 26, August 11, 1941 - July 4, 1942, p. 179
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Tampa Tribune 29 Nov. 1941, Sat., p. 2

Katherine H. Taylor, Novelist, Dies at Her St. Cloud Home

St. Cloud, Nov. 28 - (Special) - Katherine Haviland Taylor, 50, known for many years as a novelist, playwright and screen writer, died here today, three weeks after coming south after a prolonged illness at her York, Pa., summer home. She recently acquired a winter home here.

She was born in Mankato, Minn., the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Arthur H. Taylor. She began writing more than 25 years ago, and her first published novel was Cecilia of the Pink Roses, in 1917. Her most recent novel was Back Roads, published in 1939.

In recent years she has written short stories for many leading magazines as well as original screen plays.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Constance H.T. Denues, Seerne Park, Md., and Mrs. Grace T. Guernsey, St. Louis, Mo. Burial will be at York, Pa.


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