Taylor, Bride Neill, 1858-1937

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Bride Neill Taylor (1858-1937), author, teacher, and community leader, moved to Austin from Peoria, Illinois, in 1871. She graduated from Nazareth Academy in Kentucky in 1876. Shortly after her marriage to Thomas Frederick Taylor, a civil servant, in 1880, she accompanied him to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a journalist for the Washington Sun Capitol . She became the Washington correspondent for the Austin Statesman when she sent news of President James A. Garfield’s assassination in 1881. In 1883, Taylor returned to Texas, earned her teaching credentials from the University of Texas at Austin, and taught in Austin public schools while continuing her writing career. She is best known for a biography of her friend Elisabet Ney, one of the first professional sculptors in Texas. Most of her newspaper articles were unattributed.

Taylor was a devout Catholic and avid club organizer, helping to establish numerous chapels, mission churches, societies, and associations in Austin. She had a major role in the founding of the Texas Fine Arts Association, the Austin History Club, and the Austin Women’s Club. Additionally, she was one of only three women attendees at the meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) in 1897. She served on the TSHA’s executive council starting in 1928, and published an article about the association’s inception in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 1929. Furthermore, Taylor earned the distinction of being only the second woman to be declared Austin’s Most Worthy Citizen, 1930.

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Cottrell, Debbie Mauldin. Taylor, Bride Neill. Handbook of Texas Online . Accessed July 29, 2010. http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fta15 .

From the guide to the Taylor, Bride Neill, papers 1934; 1940., 1840, 1864, [1880s]-1937, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)

Bride Neill Taylor (1858-1937), author, teacher, and community leader, moved to Austin from Peoria, Illinois, in 1871.

She graduated from Nazareth Academy in Kentucky in 1876. Shortly after her marriage to Thomas Frederick Taylor, a civil servant, in 1880, she accompanied him to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a journalist for the Washington Sun Capitol. She became the Washington correspondent for the Austin Statesman when she sent news of President James A. Garfield's assassination in 1881. In 1883, Taylor returned to Texas, earned her teaching credentials from the University of Texas at Austin, and taught in Austin public schools while continuing her writing career. She is best known for a biography of her friend Elisabet Ney, one of the first professional sculptors in Texas. Most of her newspaper articles were unattributed.

Taylor had a major role in the founding of the Texas Fine Arts Association, the Austin History Club, and the Austin Women's Club.

Additionally, she was one of only three women attendees at the meeting of the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) in 1897. She served on the TSHA's executive council starting in 1928, and published an article about the association's inception in the "Southwestern Historical Quarterly," 1929. Furthermore, Taylor earned the distinction of being only the second woman to be declared Austin's Most Worthy Citizen, 1930.

From the description of Taylor, Bride Neill, papers, 1840, 1864, [1880s]-1937 (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 776608779

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referencedIn American History Club Records AR. O. 004., 1893-2005, 1893-1902 Austin History Center , Austin Public Library, 810 Guadalupe Street, Austin, Texas, 78701.
referencedIn Bride Neill Taylor. Texas Woman's University Library, Mary Evelyn Blagg-Huey Library
creatorOf Taylor, Bride Neill, 1858-1937. Taylor, Bride Neill, papers, 1840, 1864, [1880s]-1937 University of Texas Libraries
creatorOf Taylor, Bride Neill, papers 1934; 1940., 1840, 1864, [1880s]-1937 Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
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