 Denison, Texas, November 14 -
Dr. Benjamin Coffin Taber, aged 97 years 2 months and 9 days, died Saturday night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. J. Thomas, in this city of old age, and the funeral took place here today. Dr. Taber was for a number of years a resident of Dallas, in which city lives one of his sons, Simpson Taber, a manufacturing jeweler. The other son is John C. B. Taber of Sour Lake. Burial was in Maple Grove Cemetery [Fairfiew Cemetery], the Masons officiating. Dr. Taber was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1812, the son of Coffin Taber, a ship contractor for that city, and the grandson of the famous English naval officer, for whom he was christened. He graduated from the Quaker Medical College in his native city and engaged in the practice of medicine there for a number of years, later going to Illinois and settling at Hennedin until the rush of 1849, when he went over the long trail to California. When he arrived and when it became known in the community in which he first settled that he was a doctor, he found no time to engage in the hunt for gold, and in later years often told amusing incidents of a frontier life in which he made a considerable fortune. For three years he lived in California, then returning to Illinois. About twenty years ago Dr. Taber left Illinois and came to Texas, settling at Dallas, where he engaged in the practice of medicine for ten years. At that time he retired from active work and came to Denison to reside with Mrs. Thomas about three years ago. In his younger days, Dr. Taber became widely known through his literary work, he having written largely for magazines, as well as having been the author of technical scientific treatises. As an untiring student of science, he often gave his entire time to research in various lines, so that the total of the years which he gave to the actual practice of medicine is estimated to be fifty. Dallas News 11-15-1910 D. cert: 1131 W. Hull, Denison, Texas; married; physician; inf: Mrs E T Richey; parents: William Tabor, Mirah Coffin; burial: Maple Grove Cemetery. [Wife: Caroline Briggs] Source: FAG  D.
cert: Elizabeth B. Thomas; married; inf:S. H. Thomas; parents: Dr. B.
C. Taber, Caroline Briggs: burial: Maple Grove [now Fairview Cemetery].
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