Rose Schuster Taylor

Rose Schuster Taylor (wrote as "Mrs H.J.Taylor") (January 5, 1863 – January 25, 1951) was a Wisconsin-born writer, naturalist and librarian, based in California.

Rose Schuster Taylor, from a 1900 publication.

Early life

Rose Eugenia Schuster was born in Middleton, Wisconsin, one of twelve children of Peter Schuster and Barbara Hallauer Schuster.[1] Both of her parents were immigrants; her father was born in Bavaria and her mother was born in Switzerland. She spoke German at home in her childhood.[2] She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1885, with a bachelor's degree in history.[3]

Career

Rose Schuster Taylor taught school as a young woman, and was a librarian in Sioux City, Iowa during her marriage.[4] She moved to California,[5] and was one of the founders of the Yosemite Museum and served as the museum's librarian for many years.[6] She worked with students in the Yosemite Field School of Natural History.[7] In 1929, she was a member of the First Park Naturalists' Training Conference.[8]

She wrote several books, including The Last Survivor (1932), a brief text about Maria Lebrado, a Yosemite Indian (Ahwahnechee) woman,[9][10] and Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches (1936).[11] Her shorter essays and reports, many on ornithology, botany, or Yosemite history, appeared in various journals and magazines.[12]

Personal life and legacy

Rose Schuster married Henry James Taylor, an educator and lawyer, in 1887.[13] They had four children; their son, Paul Schuster Taylor became a noted economist. She was widowed when Henry died in 1902, in New Zealand. She died in 1951, aged 88 years, at her home in Berkeley, California.[7] Some of her papers are archived with her son Paul's, at the Bancroft Library.[14]

The Hawaii Audubon Society has an annual scholarship named for Rose Schuster Taylor.[15]

References
  1. Rose Schuster Taylor, "Peter Schuster: Dane County Farmer" Wisconsin Magazine of History 28(3)(March 1945): 280.
  2. Alison Clark Efford, German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era (Cambridge University Press 2013): 38. ISBN 9781107031937
  3. Catalogue of the University of Wisconsin for the Academic Year 1892–1893 (University of Wisconsin 1893): 223.
  4. Reuben Gold Thwaites, The University of Wisconsin: Its History and Its Alumni (J. N. Purcell): 656–657.
  5. Jan Goggans, California on the Breadlines: Dorothea Lange, Paul Taylor, and the Making of a New Deal Narrative (University of California Press 2010): 40–42. ISBN 9780520266216
  6. "Rites Sunday for Mrs. Taylor" Oakland Tribune (January 26, 1951): 8. via Newspapers.com
  7. Carl P. Russell, "Mrs. H. J. Taylor, 1863–1951" Yosemite Nature Notes 30(2)(February 1951): 1–2.
  8. Proceedings of the First Park Naturalists' Training Conference, November 1 to 30, 1929 (Crater Lake Institute).
  9. Rose Schuster Taylor, The Last Survivor (Johnk & Seeger 1932).
  10. Rebecca Solnit, Savage Dreams: A Journey Into the Hidden Wars of the American West (University of California Press 2013): 275–276. ISBN 9780520282285
  11. Mrs. H. J. Taylor, Yosemite Indians and Other Sketches (Johnk & Seeger 1936), at Yosemite Online Library.
  12. Jean M. Lindale, "Obituary: Rose Schuster Taylor" The Wilson Bulletin (64(1)(1952): 51–52. via JStor
  13. "Mrs. Rose Taylor Schuster, 1885 Graduate of U. W., Dies in Berkeley" Wisconsin State Journal (January 27, 1951): 1. via Newspapers.com
  14. Guide to the Paul Schuster Taylor Papers, 1660–1997 Bancroft Library, University of California Berkeley.
  15. "Scholarship" Honolulu Star-Bulletin (October 3, 1977): 17. via Newspapers.com
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