From East Liverpool to California: The Riches to Rags Story of the Taylor Family

From the Author:"This is the history of what I know of my Taylor family. It is about their life in East Liverpool, Ohio (ELO) and their life in California. It involves the Knowles family, the Taylor family and the Sebring family-as I am directly related to each of these pottery families.It also involves the Great Depression and my Taylor family moving from Ohio to California in 1934. This after the Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Company went out of business, along with most of the potteries in the East Liverpool area. The good news is that without the Great Depression, I never would have been born.So this is about the Taylor family's riches to rags story. While the Taylor family lived in East Liverpool, I will rely heavily on my Grandmother Taylor's memory, along with her mother, Pearl Sebring Taylor's writings while they lived in ELO.Fortunately, I have always been a collector. I started with coins at age seven. I grew up in San Clemente, California. When I was in high school the President and Mrs. Nixon bought their home in San Clemente. Naturally I began to collect Nixon campaign buttons and later this led to collecting William McKinley and William Howard Taft buttons and their memorabilia as well. As you will see, my Republican roots run deep.My collecting instincts were a very fortunate trait. From my Grandmother Taylor's letters to me, along with my Great Grandmother Pearl Taylor's scrapbooks, I collected a Taylor family treasure trove of history, photographs, and memorabilia.As you might imagine, I've collected a few pieces of the Knowles, Taylor & Knowles pottery as well. In these pages you will see some of my pottery collection, which includes pieces from East Liverpool to California. This comprises examples from the glory "Lotus Ware" days in East Liverpool, Ohio to the desperate art ware pottery days in Burbank, California. Read more