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Horace Dutton Taft (S&B 1883)

Yale University. Skull and Bones. Delta Kappa. Psi Upsilon. Phi Beta Kappa. Yale Daily News.

Governor Yale Publishing Association; member Connecticut Headmasters Association, Connecticut Prison Association, New England Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, and Connecticut committee of the Amencan Historical Research Fund.[4]

Author Memories and Opinions (1942); contributed to numerous newspapers and periodicals, M.A. honorary Yale 1893; LHD . Williams College 1920, LLD Union College 1924, Dartmouth College 1935, Yale University and Amherst College 1936, and Temple University 1942; trustee Lebanon School for Boys (now Darrow School) 1932-38;

Attended Christ Episcopal Church, Watertown

Honorary chairman Connecticut chapter of the Fight for Freedom to Defend America.[4]

1936, Founder, 1936 to 1939, President , 1939 to 1943, President Emeritus of Connecticut Merit System Association.[4]

1931 to 1942 - President New Haven branch Connecticut League of Nations Association.[4]

1926, Delegate, 1924 to 1925, Vice-President to meeting of Associated Yale Clubs of New England.[4]

1914 to 1916 - President Yale Alumni Association of the Naugatuck Valley.[4]

29 Jun 1892 - Married in Niagara Falls, NY, Winifred Shepard Thompson. No children. Mrs. Taft died December 16, 1909

1891 to 1943 - Class agent.[4]

1890, Founded, 1890 to 1936, Headmaster, 1926 to 1943, Trustee, 1926 to 1936, President of the Board, 1936 to 1943, Head Master Emeritus of Taft School.[4]

1887 to 1890 - Tutor in Latin Yale University.[4]

1885 to 1887 - Practiced law in Cincinnati with his father and Henry N. Morns (Taft, Morns & Taft), 1885 - Admitted to the Ohio bar.[4]

1884 to 1885 - Attended Cincinnati Law School.[4]

1883 to 1943 - Class President.[4]

1883 to 1884 - Studied in Vienna.[4]

1883 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.[1]

Died 28 Jan 1943, from rupture of femoral artery Known. Age 81.

Father, Alphonso Taft (S&B1833). Mother, Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft Yale relatives include Asa H Waters (B.A 1829) (great-uncle); Charles P. Taft, ‘64, Peter R Taft, ‘67, U.S. President William H. Taft (S&B 1878), and Henry W.Taft (S&B 1880) (brothers), Hulbert Taft (S&B 1900), Charles Howard Taft, ‘05, Walbridge S.Taft, ‘07, William Howard Taft, 2d, ‘09, Robert A. Taft (S&B 1910), and Charles P.Taft, 2d (S&B 1918) (nephews), Helen Taft Manning (M A. 1917, Ph D 1925) (niece); and David S Ingalls (S&B 1920), Hulbert Taft, Jr, ‘30, Henry T. Snowdon, ‘34,Yale College 15 William Howard Taft, 3d, ‘37, Robert Taft, ‘39, Lloyd B. Taft, ‘44, Seth Chase Taft, ‘44, and Henry W. Taft, 2d, ‘46 (grandnephews)

[1] - America’s Secret Establishment. An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones by Antony C. Sutton (2004)

[2] - Fleshing Out Skull & Bones - Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society 2008 by Antony Sutton, Howard Altman, Kris Millegan, Dr Ralph Bunch, Anton Chaitkin and Webster Griffin Tarpley

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[4] - S&B Obituaries

[5] - Wiki - Horace Dutton Taft (S&B 1883)

[6] - Find a Grave.com - Horace Dutton Taft (S&B 1883)