Excerpt from Stowe Notes: Letters and Verses
The author of these Notes, Edward Martin Taber, was born on Staten Island, July 21, 1863. As a youth he showed his gift for painting, but on account of ill health studied only a few months, with Abbott Thayer. In 1887, after a journey to Europe and short trips to the South and to the Adirondacks for his health, he was exiled from New York, as his only chance for life, and chose Stowe, Vermont, as his home, where, with the ex ception Of one or two brief intervals, he lived to Within a few months Of his death. He died on September 9, 1896, at Washington, Connecticut.
His frail health made continuous work impossible, but in the almost arctic Winters of northern Vermont he finished a number Of paintings. These and many sketches in Oil and pencil, together with his Notes and literary fragments, constitute his life’s work; but those who knew his singularly just and discriminating spirit realize that this visible accomplishment is but part Of what he achieved; for in the solitude Of his life, under the suffering that was his portion, striving with undevi ating devotion to truth for his ideal, he developed a character that is an undying possession to those Who knew him.
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