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	A little local history about the Cocke 'n Kettle Restaurant - Uxbridge, MAssachusetts
		The house is said to have been built by The Honorable Bazaleel Taft, a member of the Taft family that figures quite prominently in the history of Uxbridge.
		Some local sources report that the house was built as late as 1790, although, the land on which the house stands was a farm, owned by the Taft family since the early eighteenth century.
		The estate was initially opened as The Cricket on the Hearth Restaurant after the renovations in 1968 that uncovered the sword, along with a stirrup, the metal portion of a leather awl and a saucer marked Woods Ware, Wood and Sons, England in the area that once served as the mansion's kitchen.
	www.cockenkettle.com /history.htm (456 words)

	toledoblade.com -- Emerging scandals put family's reputation in peril (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Taft has forced the resignation of the head of the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, removed a top aide from the governor's office, and hired one of the nation's top white-collar crime attorneys to represent himself as he faces an investigation for ethics violations.
		Taft - who served in the Peace Corps from 1963 to 1965 in Tanzania and was first elected to office in 1976 to the Ohio House of Representatives - shouldn't be forgotten.
		Taft's press secretary, said the governor's initiative to overhaul the state's tax code is "historic," the state has spent millions to renovate and construct new public schools, and Mr.
	www.toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050626/NEWS24/506260393 (3512 words)

	William Howard Taft - MSN Encarta
		Taft's conservatism irritated Roosevelt, split the Republican Party, and ensured a Democratic victory for Woodrow Wilson in the presidential election of 1912.
		William Howard Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Alphonso and Louisa Torrey Taft.
		Alphonso Taft himself served as a judge in Ohio, as attorney general and secretary of war in the administration of Ulysses S. Grant (1869-1877), and as U.S. minister to Austria and to Russia.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761555013/Taft_William_Howard.html (666 words)

	William Howard Taft IV - SourceWatch
		Taft was nominated February 17, 1981, by President Ronald Reagan to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense.
		Taft is an attorney with the firm of Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin and Oppenheimer of Washington, D.C. Prior to January 1977, Mr.
		Taft was appointed by the President to serve as General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=William_Howard_Taft_IV (415 words)

	Lausd - Taft Family Complex
		The Taft Family of schools is located in the West San Fernando Valley.
		In addition to neighborhood children, the Taft Family of Schools is comprised of students from across the city of Los Angeles.
		The Taft Family of Schools is using several broad strategies to support student achievement.
	www.lausd.k12.ca.us /Taft_Complex (382 words)

	Robert Taft Summary
		Family and colleagues were stunned when tests revealed that soreness after a round of golf was the first symptom of a widespread and rapidly advancing cancer that would claim his life by the end of July.
		Taft himself appeared taciturn and coldly intellectual, characteristics that were offset by his gregarious wife, who served the same role his mother had for his father, as a confident and powerful asset to her husband's political career.
		Taft was elected to the first of his three terms as U.S. Senator in the Republican landslide of 1938.
	www.bookrags.com /Robert_Taft (3042 words)

	Taft adds governor to family tree
		Taft, whose family's roots are embedded in Cincinnati, defeated Democrat Lee Fisher in the most expensive race for governor in Ohio history and continued his party's dominance of state politics.
		Taft ran his campaign as if he were the incumbent, hoping voters content with Ohio's prosperity would want to continue on the path paved by Mr.
		Taft made history by being the first candidate for governor to be officially reprimanded for lying in a TV commercial.
	www.enquirer.com /editions/1998/11/04/loc_taft04.html (1103 words)

	William Howard Taft, President of the United States
		Taft's remarkable record in public office had led to the expectation that he would make a great success of his administration as President, and it was believed by many afterward that the reason he failed, at least on the political side of his Administration, was that his temperament was judicial rather than executive.
		Taft, it was reported, did not believe the bill was all it should be, but considered it better than the existing tariff law and believed it met in large degree the platform promise of his party to reduce the tariff.
		Taft's championship of the proposed reciprocity treaty with Canada in 1910 and the adoption of it by the aid of Democratic votes was nullified in the public mind by the refusal of Canada to accept it.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /whtaft.htm (8658 words)

	Adoption History: Jessie Taft (1880-1960)
		Jessie Taft was a prominent early national authority on child placement, an advocate for adoption professionalization, and a prophet of therapeutic adoption.
		Taft is known today, if she is known at all, as the translator, biographer, and leading American exponent of renegade Viennese psychoanalyst Otto Rank.
		Taft met him in 1924, entered analysis with him in 1926, and eventually arranged for Rank's immigration to the United States and his employment at the University of Pennsylvania.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~adoption/people/taft.htm (718 words)

	Bob Taft at AllExperts
		Taft was elected governor of Ohio in 1998, defeating Democrat Lee Fisher 50-45 percent, and was reelected in 2002, defeating Democrat Tim Hagan 58-38 percent.
		Kingsley A. Taft was a U.S. Senator from Ohio and Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.
		Taft's conviction is grounds under the Ohio Constitution for impeachment and removal from office by the Ohio General Assembly; this appears unlikely, however, since both chambers of it are controlled by his fellow Republicans.
	en.allexperts.com /e/b/bo/bob_taft.htm (941 words)

	Lorado Taft Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Taft taught at the University of Chicago during the period 1893 to 1900 and again in 1909 as a lecturer on the history of art.
		Taft opened his first studio in Chicago upon returning from Paris, and went on to win a number of awards at national and international expositions, including the Columbian Exposition in 1893, the Pan-American Exposition in 1901, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, and the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915.
		Taft's final work was the unfinished "Fountain of Creation," which he had hoped to put at the opposite end of the midway from his "Fountain of Time." After his death the statues that had been completed were given to the University of Illinois.
	images.library.uiuc.edu /projects/taft/taftbio.htm (564 words)

	USATODAY.com - Rare-coin deal buys scandal for Ohio governor (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But Taft, 63, now is mired in a series of controversies that range from the state losing more than $10 million investing in rare coins to his golf outings allegedly paid for by lobbyists and businessmen but not reported on the governor's financial disclosure forms.
		Great-grandfather William Howard Taft was president from 1909 to 1913 and chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930.
		Taft defeated an incumbent Democrat for secretary of state in 1991 and was elected governor in 1998.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2005-08-16-coingate-taft_x.htm (1309 words)

	The Washington Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft
		Taft finished the year apart from his family, making only a brief visit home in late October to replenish the supply of firewood and generally check on things.
		Taft leased two slaves from a Virginia slave owner to assist Mary with her domestic chores, one an aging wash woman and cook, and the other a young mulatto or "Yellow" girl for light housekeeping.
		Taft recorded the temper and scenes of the rapidly changing city, and he followed the progress of the war until the last hurrah of victory.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/tafthtml/essay.html (1903 words)

	toledoblade.com -- Governor's criminal conviction contradicts a legacy of integrity (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For members of the Taft family, the dissonance between the convicted politician and the cousin, stepbrother, and friend known affectionately as "young Bob" is particularly difficult to comprehend.
		Taft, who spent her teenage years living on the historic Taft family estate on Drake Road outside Cincinnati, knew her stepbrother well, discussing politics and current affairs with him over the dinner table and on holidays spent at a summer home in Maine.
		But it was Alphonso Taft, born in 1810 in Vermont, who first brought the family to national prominence, serving as a government minister and an ambassador and establishing many of the values and traditions that subsequent Taft generations would follow and embellish.
	toledoblade.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/NEWS24/508280316 (2595 words)

	William Howard Taft University
		Taft was born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio and earned a Bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1878.
		Taft was appointed a Federal Circuit Judge in 1892.
		When Taft was renominated in 1912, Roosevelt ran for President under the banner of his "Bull Moose" Party and effectively splintered the Republican vote, giving the election to democrat Woodrow Wilson.
	www.taftu.edu /resources.htm (507 words)

	Robert Taft - Knowmore (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Robert Alphonso Taft I (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft family political dynasty of Ohio, was a United States Senator and Presidential candidate in the Republican Party.
		Robert Taft was the son of William Howard Taft, whose term as President roughly coincided with the younger Taft's undergraduate college years.
		He sought nomination as the Republican candidate for President in 1940, but lost to Wendell Wilkie; he again sought the nomination in 1948, but deferred to Thomas E. Dewey; and again in 1952, when he was initially favored to win the nomination due to his support from party insiders.
	knowmore.org /index.php/Robert_Taft (460 words)

	Lausd - Taft Family Complex - Annual Report
		The Taft Family of Schools is studying the transience/traveling patterns of our students, and comparing those students who remain in the School Family with those who do not directly benefit from our programs and instruction.
		Since many of the students in our Family commute from outside our area, we feel that the time has come for us to hold a major Family event for these parents in their community.
		While our Family schools are excited about what technology has to offer, transforming this enthusiasm into a concrete plan for improving what and how students learn is much more difficult and long-term in nature.
	www.lausd.k12.ca.us /Taft_Complex/report.htm (2188 words)

	UM Library: Dentistry Library: About Us
		Taft, both with George Watts and later on his own when Dr. Watts left to fight in the Civil War, edited the Dental Register of the West for almost 50 years, from 1856 until the year of his death, 1903.
		Taft, in his manuscript about the founding of the School, put it this way: "The suggestion originated, as nearly as can now be ascertained, in conversations and consultations between Drs.
		In Dr. Taft's presidential address as the outgoing President of the Association, as consistent with Dr. Taft's entire career, he strongly espoused the duty of each dentist to the advancement of the profession, and professional ethics as essential to this process.
	www.lib.umich.edu /dentlib/about/exhibits/taft/early.html (644 words)

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		It was in Taft that her grandfather and grandmother came to start his oil supply business called the Goldman and Sons Petroleum Supply Co., Inc. It was here that three of the Goldman sons went through Taft Union High School.
		It was from Taft that he went on to graduate from the University of California, Berkeley and then the UC Medical School in San Francisco where he joined the staff and became a professor and a well-known surgeon.
		She remarked later during her talk to the students at an assembly that much of his values came from his life in Taft and the education that he received in the local high school and that much of what she is today can be attributed to what her father taught her.
	www.taftmidwaydriller.com /articles/2006/10/31/news/opinion/feat01.prt (1478 words)

	Robert Taft, Jr. Papers (Library of Congress)
		Family papers, personal and professional organizations files, general correspondence, Ohio House of Representatives files, political files, and speeches and writings comprise the remainder of the collection.
		Taft was the grandson of William Howard Taft, the nation's twenty-fifth president, and the son of Robert A. Taft, one of the prominent figures in American politics during the 1940s and early 1950s.
		Correspondence between Taft and his parents while he was a student at Yale University reveals a warmth between him and his mother and a close but more formal relationship with his father.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/taft.html (4345 words)

	Family Support Works!-- Taft Family Center
		Taft Family Center offers students and family members on-site counseling, classes, leadership opportunities, home-visiting, and links to services—all with the goal of promoting students’ school success.
		Family support programs improved children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development and school performance, according to a national survey of research reports on 260 family support programs.
		The family resource center (FRC), part of an innovative strategy to promote healthy families and communities, is a warm and welcoming community hub that engages families in a variety of programs and activities that build on their strengths and meet basic needs.
	www.4children.org /news/504fswe.htm (1087 words)

	Biography of William Howard Taft
		Taft disliked the campaign--"one of the most uncomfortable four months of my life." But he pledged his loyalty to the Roosevelt program, popular in the West, while his brother Charles reassured eastern Republicans.
		Taft recognized that his techniques would differ from those of his predecessor.
		Taft, free of the Presidency, served as Professor of Law at Yale until President Harding made him Chief Justice of the United States, a position he held until just before his death in 1930.
	www.whitehouse.gov /history/presidents/wt27.html (575 words)

	Taft family - SourceWatch
		The Taft family are a powerful political dynasty from Ohio, United States that spans almost two centuries.
		The most famous member of the family is William Howard Taft, the only person to serve as both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the United States.
		The family were originally from Scandinavia using the name Toft, which is Old Norse for dweller at the curtilage, site or homestead.
	sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Taft_family (267 words)

	Taft Family Genealogy Page
		Descendents of Thomas (born 1671) and Deborah (Genery) Taft
		Descendents of Joseph (born 1680) and Elizabeth (Emerson) Taft
		(Matthew Taft family immigrating from Ireland in 1726)
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~taft (390 words)

	History of The Taft School
		Winifred Taft had taken critical part in the operation and sustenance of the new school, supporting her husband in his ideals and work, managing the school's finances, and in the myriad activities she planned with and for the students.
		Taft appreciated the close parallels to his own career and was pleased with the appointment.
		In his years as headmaster he repeatedly echoed Horace Taft’s stated goals to “educate the whole (child)” and to urge upon his largely privileged students the importance of using their educations to contribute as responsible citizens and humane leaders in the world.
	www.taftschool.org /about/history (3241 words)

	Wikinfo \| Bob Taft (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Prior to his election as governor in 1998, Taft served as Ohio's secretary of state (1991—1998), Hamilton County commissioner (1981—1990), and in the state House of Representatives (1976—1981).
		Taft won the 1998 Ohio gubernatorial race against Democrat Lee Fisher taking 50% of the vote to Fisher's 45% He was reelected in 2002, defeating Democrat Tim Hagan, taking 58% of the vote to Hagan's 38%.
		His great-great-grandfather Alphonso Taft was secretary of war, attorney general, and an ambassador; his great-grandfather William Howard Taft was president and chief justice of the United States Supreme Court; and his grandfather (Robert Alphonso Taft I) and his father (Robert Taft Jr.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Bob_Taft (749 words)

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