Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — Oliver P. Taber Dead. [ARTICLE]

Oliver P. Taber Dead.

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about S3OO f>er acre to buy this farm now. On removing from the farm Mr. Taber located in Remington, where he built a big grain elevator and engaged in the grain business. He also built with Robert Parker the TaberParker business block in Remington, which he still owned at the time of his death. The first elevator he built he sold after a few years and later built an • other elevator there, larger and better than the first. He was a live, progressive citizen and a man of excellent business ability. It was while living there that his first wife died. One son, Wellington 0., and one daughter, Lillian A., had died while the family lived on the farm. He was later married to Mrs. Ica Morris of Remington, who, with two sons and one daughter, fruits of his first marriage, survive him. The children are Mrs. P. J. Pothuisje of Denver, Colo., and Albert and George Taber of Bluffton. Mr. Taber served nine years as county commissioner of Jasper county in the latter eighties and early ninties and, while somewhat arbitrary , made a good commissioner as he was a man of good sound business attainments. Following his retirement as county commissioner he engaged in the grain business at Remington and later followed gravel and stone road contracting and built a number of roads in various counties of Indiana, and only recently completed a contract in Carpenter township, this county. Last year Mr. Taber built one of the finest homes in Wabash, where he resided at the time of his death. He and his wife had but recently returned from a visit with Dr. and Mrs. Pothuisje at Denver, Colo., and were planning on taking a southern trip soon. The editor of The Democrat had been closely acquainted with Mr. Taber for the past thirty years, and he called at our office when In Rensselaer not long ago to renew his subscription, and we could not help but remark on how well he was looking despite his 70 years of age. Quite a number of K. of P’s. and old friends from Rensselaer attended the funeral at Remington yesterday.