Major Elmore Findlay Taggart
Kentucky Post, Thursday, 20 July 1899, page 1
NOW A MAJOR-Captain Elmore F Taggart of the Sixth Infantry, formerly stationed at Ft Thomas, but now there on a visit, was notified Wednesday by the War Department that he had been appointed Major of the Twenty-eighth Regiment of volunteers, now being mustered at Camp Meade Pa. Captain Taggart left at once for Camp Meade to assume his duties.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 24 December 1903, page 5
FT THOMAS-Major Elmore F Taggart, who was stationed at Ft Thomas as Captain of Company F, Sixth Infantry for several years prior to the Spanish American War, has been transferred to the Quartermasters Department and is ordered to San Francisco as assistant to the Superintendent of Army Transport Service.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 27 January 1904, page 5
FT THOMAS-Captain Elmore F Taggart, Quartermaster, who was stationed at Ft Thomas for several years in the old Sixth, has just been assigned to duty as Quartermaster and Commissary of the army transport Sherman, at San Francisco.
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Kentucky Post, Saturday, 22 April 1905, page 1
DIVORCE-Attorneys for both sides in the celebrated Taggart divorce case were occupied Saturday in taking depositions in the Campbell County Circuit Court at Newport Ky. Attorney Ed S West of Wooster, O. represents Major Elmore F Taggart, who in his amended divorce petition charges that his pretty wife, engaged in drinking bouts and cigarette smoking with certain officers at Ft Thomas during their residence there in 1896.
Congressman S M Smyser, also of Wooster, represents Mrs. Taggart, who, in her cross petition charges her husband with striking her and drinking to excess. Both attorneys claim to have found four witnesses at Ft Thomas who will appear when the case comes up for trial at Wooster.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 9 February 1906, page 7
WOOSTER O. Captain Elmore F Taggart, whose sensational divorce case is to be received in this city next week, may never see his two boys again, in the opinion of James Sterling, the Captain's chief counsel. He states that indecision and humiliation of being outwitted by his wife. When the decree of Judge Eason gave the boys to Taggart, he was advised by counsel to go to at once to his wifes home and take possession of them. The Captain lacked the determination to do this.
Mrs. Taggart and the boys are said to be in Paris.
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Wooster Daily Record, 18 September 1935, page 1
DIES-Washington Sep 18. The war department today was notified of the death of Colonel Elmore F Taggart USA retired, this morning at Baguio, the Philippines. A native of Orrville O. Co. Taggart, 77 years old. His brother Howard Taggart, is with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at Baltimore. Appointed to West Point military academy in 1881 by the late President William McKinley, who at that time was congressman from this district, the young Orrville man launched into a brilliant career with the military forces of the country.
Col. Taggart was one of the principals in a divorce case heard here during the summer of 1905. At the conclusion of the case he was awarded custody of his two son, but his wife, Grace fled from Wooster with them and succeeded in making her way to France and Italy where they grew to manhood. Col. Taggart never saw his sons again. Following his retirement from the army Col. Taggart returned to the Philippines where he had a large estate and had been living there quietly. He was planning to return to his old home in Orrville this fall the pass the evening of his life in Wayne County. News of his death came as a great surprise.