Martin Digital History

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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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  • Josephine Kitching Taylor's descriptions of their homes and stores.

  • 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

  • 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 chiefly detailing the history of the Methodist Church.
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  • Includes stories concerning Josephine Kitching Taylor's life and that of her family.

  • Josephine Kitching Taylor (1895-1987) was a native and early pioneer of Stuart, Florida. The only child of Walter Kitching (1846-1932) and Emma Jane Michael Kitching (1870–1951), Josephine came from one of Stuart’s earliest families. Deeply involved in her community, she was a charter member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood chapter, an active participant in the Historical Society of Martin County, and a devoted member of the Methodist Church. A dedicated local historian, Taylor wrote numerous short histories documenting the people and events of early Stuart.

    This book contains both handwritten recipes, many of which indicate from whom she received the recipe, and several clippings. The recipes include chiefly desserts and salads. The cookies, cakes, and pies look delicious while the "salads" reflect food preferences that have changed over time. An index and table of contents has been created, located at the end of the PDF.
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  • Notes detail the name change from Potsdam to Stuart; FEC Railroad; Walter Kitching; first church; Methodist Church history; peacocks; trees: monkey puzzle and camphor; Seminole Indians; Stuart apartments; gardening; President Grover Cleveland; pineapple farming; the Woman's Club; clubs of Stuart; post offices; mangoes; histories of her family members, including John E. Taylor and her children

  • Includes notes on: railroad arrival in Florida, name change, funerals, Fern Hill Cemetery, Seminole Indians, Hotel Danforth, President Cleveland, and the pineapple industry.

  • Includes notes on: Our Bungalow, Walter Kitching's stores, Grove House, and John Taylor's career as mayor and commissioner.
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