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- [Adapted by Alaric Faulkner from reminiscences of Lizzie Tait Gallaher, Notes of Stella Fox Beam]
Joseph Tait’s second wife was Kate Batelle, a dressmaker. They married and lived in house in Corydon [Township formed from Bradford, PA in 1829]. There son Glenn was born and Clara 12 or more years later [perhaps actually ten]. He apparently was schooled went to Culor Academy [Culver Military Academy, Culver Indiana].
Glenn married early and had two children. After his schooling, he went on a trip and jokingly asked a girl to come home with him. She came back with him—no suitcase or anything—and they were married. They lived at home [Indiana?] a while and later set up house by themselves. Glenn became interested in Christian Science and later in New Thought. He traveled about lecturing on these subjects.
Glen apparently inherited from his father a gold mine in British Columbia and a ranch in Alberta.
World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: Glen Moffat Tait
City: Middletown
County: Henry
State: Indiana
Birthplace: Bradford, McKean, PA, United States of America
Birth Date: 01 Jan 1887
Race: Caucasian
Roll: 1503900
DraftBoard: 0
Age: 30
Occupation: Foreman, Aircraft construction, Thomas-Morse Aircraft Co, Ithaca, NY
Marital status: Married
Dependent: Wife
Prior service: no rank, branch: Culver M.A. [Culver Military Academy, Culver Indiana] years: 1 term
Registration Place: Fall Creek Township, Henry, Indiana [apparently an absentee registration witnessed in in Ithaca, NY, May 29, 1917]
Height: tall
Build: stout
Color of Eyes: blue
Color of Hair: Light, not bald
Disabilities: No
“By 1917, when the U.S. entered WWI, Thomas Bros. had merged with Morse Corporation, becoming Thomas-Morse. They opened a new factory on south hill and with war contracts employment jumped from 100 to 1,200. Although the school closed for a time due to lack of instructors (most had left to join the war effort) the airport was busy with the test flights of airplanes during the war. Thomas-Morse designed the MB-3, the first postwar fighter ordered in quantity by the military and was very busy in the immediate postwar years. However, by 1929, Thomas-Morse was absorbed by Consolidated Aircraft Co. and moved to Buffalo. The airplane factory on south hill was converted to the manufacture of adding machines.” http://cayugawaterfronttrail.com/?t=74
But Glenn did not stay with the Aircraft manufacturing business long:
1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Glenn Tait
Age: 31 years
Estimated birth year: abt 1889
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Race: White
Home in 1920: Whittier, Los Angeles, California
Home owned: Rent
Sex: Male
Marital status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Able to read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Mother's Birth Place: Pennsylvania
Father's Birth Place: Scotland
Image: 402
On Jan 16, 1920, Glenn Tait (31, laborer, oil field) b. in PA of a Sottish father and a PA mother, was renting an apartment on 516 Olive Drive in Whittier, CA. With him is his wife Hazel C. Tait (32, none) b. in Indiana of IN parents. With them is Jane G. Tait (2), b. in NY of an PA father and an IN mother.
Social Security Death Index
Name: Glen Tait
SSN: 473-12-6027
Last Residence: Indiana
Born: 2 Jan 1887
Died: Jun 1965
State (Year) SSN issued: Minnesota (Before 1951), , , [3, 6, 8, 9]
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