Peter Rawson Taft family I was born in Uxbridge in 1785 and moved to Townshend, Vermont circa 1800.
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Taft family's son, Alphonso Taft, was born in Townshend, Vermont, and attended Yale University, where he founded the Skull and Bones society.
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Taft family later was Secretary of War and Attorney General of the United States and the father of President William Howard Taft.
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In 1734, Benjamin Taft family started an iron forge, in Uxbridge, where some of the earliest beginnings of America's industrial revolution began.
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President William Howard Taft family's grandfather, Peter Rawson Taft family I, was born in Uxbridge in 1785.
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President William Howard Taft family's grandfather, Peter Rawson Taft family I, was born in Uxbridge in 1785 and grew up there.
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The "Aaron Taft family house" is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Peter Rawson Taft family I became a Vermont legislator and eventually died in Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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President Taft family stayed at the Samuel Taft family tavern when he visited Uxbridge, as did George Washington 120 years earlier.
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Taft family had moved in with his family in an Uxbridge center Hotel in 1827.
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Taft family later managed and owned the hotel in Uxbridge Center before investing in a cotton mill at Holland, Massachusetts.
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Taft family was called to the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles by Brigham Young in 1846, a high post within the LDS Church.
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Taft family was a Missionary to the Sandwich Islands, known as Hawaii.
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Taft family served as a Representative to the Utah Territorial Assembly.
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Benjamin Taft family started the first iron forge in the Ironstone section of Uxbridge in 1734 There was good quality "bog iron ore" here.
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The Taft family continued to be instrumental in the early industrialization of the Blackstone Valley including mills built by a 4th generation descendant of Robert Taft I, the son of Deborah Taft, Daniel Day in 1810, and his son in law, Luke Taft and Luke's son, Moses Taft in.
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