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Jasmin’s wedding

Dearly Beloved (did NOT say that)

Marrying Sam Eric

ClubCorp era 90’s(?)

Old Dad

Mary Clevenger Taylor

Marriage cerftificate Hester & Albert 1911

Hester as a 6 year old at the Johnson Place School 1893

Hester Anne Erles

Rush during service WWII

Rush C. Taylor

Rush Collan Taylor

Rush Collan Taylor

Business Trip

Derrick Taylor with his grandchildren including Cometan

Derrick Taylor with Irene Mary Taylor

Sean Frederick Taylor

Irene Mary Taylor in the early 1990s

Andrew Taylor

Taylor family

Emma Georgina Taylor

Emma Georgina Taylor

Alexander Taylor and his wife Fanny Johanna Budden taken before 1929.

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In 1932, in the year that Benjamin Taylor was born, on February 27th, actress Elizabeth Taylor was born in London. Her parents were Americans living in London and when she was 7, the family moved to Los Angeles. Her first small part in a movie was in There's One Born Every Minute in 1942 but her first starring role was in National Velvet in 1944. She became as famous for her 8 marriages (to 7 people) as she was for her beauty and films.

In 1967, when he was 35 years old, on October 2nd, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the great-grandson of a slave and graduated first in his class at Howard University Law School. His nomination to the Supreme Court was approved by the Senate, 69 to 11.

In 1979, he was 47 years old when on March 28th, a partial nuclear meltdown occurred at the power plant at Three Mile Island Pennsylvania. Radiation leaked into the environment, resulting in a rating of 5 on a scale of 7 ("Accident With Wider Consequences") . It ended up costing $1 billion to clean up the site.

In 1988, when he was 56 years old, on December 21st, Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie Scotland. The explosion killed all 259 people on board and another 11 on the ground. The flight had left Heathrow Airport in London less than an hour before, on its way to New York. After an exhaustive (and long) investigation it came to be believed that two individuals from Libya had planted the bomb.

In 1990, in the year of Benjamin Taylor's passing, on April 24th, the Hubble telescope was launched into space after long delays due to the Challenger explosion. An optical flaw was found within weeks of launch but was fixed within three years. The discoveries made possible by the Hubble have contributed to scientists' understanding of the universe.