biography of Clara Potter Davidge TAYLOR (?-1921)

Death place: Smithtown, NY

Addresses: Plainfield, NH

Profession: Painter

Member: art colony at Cornish (NH)

Comments: Wife of Henry Fitch Taylor, they owned the Old Kingsbury Tavern which they rented in summers to the various members of the Cornish art colony. In 1909 she first introduced her husband to Stephen Parrish and the two men became close friends. She drowned in a marsh on her brother"s estate.

Sources: Granite State Monthly (vol. 57, 1925); tls, V. Colby, Cornish Hist. Soc. (1982)