Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-12-31
MIR. and Mrs. Ii. Il. Taylor Have En-
joyed Fifty Years of Happy
Welded Life

On New Years day of 1866. at Tip
ton, Cedar county, Iowa, occurred the
ceremony which linked the lives of
Benjamin F. Taylor and Miss Judith
Bradley. Tomorrow, the first day
of the year 1916, this esteemed
couple will celebrate the fiftieth an
niversary of that happy event, their
Golden Wedding day, and all Pull
man joins in extending congratula-
tions, with heartiest well wishes for
their future years.
What that half century of I'M
bounded happiness, with the attend
ant but lesser trials and tribulations,
means to the principals of the so
year partnership is best expressed
by the marks of contentment and
happiness written on the face of
each.
Happy in their family ties, at
peace with all the world, observing
always the spirit and the letter of
the Golden Rule, this beloved couple
has completed their so years of m ar
ried life without making an enemy,
while every acquaintance revers and
adores them, and the world is vastly
better off for the part they have
taken In Its affairs.
Potent factors in shaping the early
history of Pullman and Whitman
county and prominent in effecting
the wonderful agricultural develop
ment of the Palouse country, Mr..
and Mrs. Taylor bear the distinction
of seniority in point of continuous
residence upon original homesteads
of any family within 20 miles of
Pullman, and in all Whitman county
only one man, Elmer Little of near
Colfax, can claim longer continuous
residence on one farm In the spring
of 1878 the couple, then only seven
years married, located on the 160-
acre homestead, four miles west of
Pullman, which they still farm, and
have resided there for the entire 43
years. That particular homestead
was selected because of the abund-
ance of pure spring water available,
and the numberless springs gained
for Mr.. Taylor the sobriquet Thou
sand Springs Taylor" an appellation
still fresh in the minds of Pullman
pioneers.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor came west
from Iowa in 1870, and after spend
Ing three years in Oregon came on to
the country known then as 1.-THE
bunch grass country north of the
Snake river" This was four years
before D. G. Mckenzie, the father"
of Pullman, located homestead
which now comprises the southeast
ern part of the city, at which time
there was no settler within three
miles of him, Mr.. Taylor being one
OF the closest, and eight years before
Orville Stewart and M. d. Lee
opened the first mercantile store in
Pullman, the result of the gift of
one-half acre of land by each ID. G..
Mckenzie and Bolon Farr, adjoining
homesteaders. Spokane Falls" was
hamlet of few souls and one or two
stores and Captain James Ewart was
just beginning to establish town
at Colfax. The boundary lines of
Whitman county had been defined
and established by territorial law
only the year previous.
The first year. 1873, Mr.. Taylor
turned" 10 acres of bunch grass
and planted to wheat, reserVing a
small plot for a garden. The result
ant 35-bushel yield and the magnifi-
cent garden on the sod ground at
once impressed him with the Won
derful possibilities of the soil and he
worked night and day to get every
available foot OF his holdings In con-