Biography

George H Taber, Esq., born in 1808, in the house on Adams Street, which has been his home during his entire life. His ancestors were among the earliest pioneers of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay.

In early childhood, Capt. Taber began to receive such limited education as the elementary school of those days afforded. At the age of ten, he decided to enter upon a mercantile career, and he became a clerk in a New Bedford dry goods store.