HENRY W. TAYLOR
Henry W. Taylor.—While Berkeley is justly
proud of its educational facilities, and not without grounds, claims to be the
center of learning and culture for the State, we can expect that at no distant
day she will quite as well be known for her industrial and mercantile
interests. The advantages she possesses
in her superb water front and railroad connections which only await the growth
of the State to stimulate their development, will enable her in time to come to
rival if not surpass her neighbors in manufacturing and commercial interests,
on which almost all others so largely depend.
Already a praiseworthy beginning has been made along the line of
supplying the wants of not only the rapidly growing community at its doors, but
also in more distant parts of the State and coast.
One of these establishments is the Henry W.
Taylor lumber yard, on the bay at
Mr. Taylor, a son of Horace B. Taylor, of
the well-known firm of Foster & Taylor of Boston, was born at Boston,
Massachusetts, January 8, 1858, graduated at Phillips Academy, Andover,
Massachusetts, in the class of ’79, and the following year came to California,
establishing himself in the town of San Bernardino, where he was engaged in
both manufacturing and retailing lumber.
About three years later, while visiting the
northern part of the State, he was so favorably impressed with the advantages
of
Transcribed by Donna L. Becker
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