Martin Digital History

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  • Includes stories concerning Josephine Kitching Taylor's life and that of her family.

  • Biographical essay about John E. Taylor.

  • Handwritten notes in a small book, a preprinted day calendar. Details her family's history in Stuart, including father Walter Kitching, who arrived in Stuart in about 1890 and her mother Emma Jane Michael Kitching. Discusses the career of Walter Kitching as a tradeboat captain, who built several stores in Stuart. (The first is noted as being by the river where the first depot was; second was an annex next to where Johns Dry Cleaners was in 1950; and a third store where the Sinclair Service Station and part of Chisholm's was in 1950, later sold to Raulerson Grocery). Details how Walter Kitching and Dr. Haney secretly appealed to railroad to change name of town.

    Also details the life of her husband John Taylor and the Taylor family and her own activities and community involvement, including membership in the Garden Club, the M.E. Missionary Society, the Soap Bubble Club, the Woman’s Club, and the PEO Sisterhood.

  • A memoir focusing chiefly on the lives of Walter Kitching (1846-1932) and John E. Taylor (1892-1972), and Josephine Kitching Taylor. Details John E. Taylor's career, including his time as mayor, bank president, builder, and realtor; the lives of Josephine and John's children; and activities of Sarah Josephine Kitching Taylor, including the local organizations she was part of: P.E.O. Sisterhood Chapter P (erroneously noted as PEG), Stuart Woman's Club, and the Ladies Bible Class.

  • Handwritten notes detailing the early life of her husband, John E. Taylor, to 1929.
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  • Handwritten notes chiefly detailing the history of the Methodist Church.
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  • Handwritten notes review life in early Stuart, including Methodist church events, ice cream socials, funerals, and the Christian Endeavor Society. Also includes a memoir of her meeting and marrying John E. Taylor, and records of her children and extended family.
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  • Typed history of the Methodist Church. Pages 1-4 up to 1969, pages 5 & 6 are draft pages concerning 1968-1974.
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  • Handwritten outline of the history of the Woman's Society of the Methodist Church from 1904 to 1950.
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  • Notes on "firsts":

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    1: Slogans
    2: Rivers were our highways. Dental boat. Walter Kitching's floating store
    4: First post offices.
    5: Town. Stuart named for first telegraph operator.
    6: First railroad.
    6: First hotels. Broster Kitching's, Danforth.
    7: First schools,
    7: First church.
    8: First doctors, first dentist.
    9: First hospitals,
    9: First drug store.
    10: First bridges.
    10: First voting.
    11: First digging of the St. Lucie
    11: First rock roads.
    12: First cemetery.
    12: Industries.
    13: First electricity.
    13: First banks.
    15: Hotels.
    16: First apartments.
    17: Homes.
    18: Kitching addition
    19: Trees
    20: First clubs
    24: Entertainment, FEC strike
    26: Peacock Arcade
    27: Pineapple industry
    29: Fishing, peacocks
    30: First automobile, funerals
    31: Coconuts, avocado
    32: Mangoes
    34: First residential section
    36: Church
    40: Seminole Indians
    46: Sea Gulls
    47: Early history of Potsdam
    54: Funerals
    58: Walter Kitching
    59: Pineapples
    61: Churches
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