Taylor, Harold Evans

Abt 1939 - 2001  (~ 62 years)

• Name	Taylor, Harold Evans  [1]
  Born	Abt 1939	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Dec 2001	Cinnaminson, Burlington, New Jersey, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I23071	Our Family
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024

  
  

  Family	Rie, Suzanne
  Last Modified	16 Jan 2024
  Family ID	F8768	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Harold Evans Taylor, 62, physicist, farmer Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - Friday, January 4, 2002 Harold Evans Taylor, 62, a physics professor at Richard Stockton State College in Pomona who moved back to his family farm in Cinnaminson to run the organic fruit and vegetable business started by his parents, died of cancer there on Dec. 27. Mr. Taylor was living in Egg Harbor City and teaching at Stockton when his father died in 1991. Five months later, he moved back to Cinnaminson to manage the farm with his mother. For 10 years, the professor harvested crops at the Taylors' Pick-Your-Own Organic Fruit and Vegetable Farm in between teaching Stockton students about physics and meteorology. He commuted 60 miles between the 41-acre Burlington County farm, which fronts on the Delaware River, and the liberal-arts college in the southeastern Pinelands in Atlantic County. Mr. Taylor, known as "Hal," was born in Philadelphia's Germantown section, but his family moved to the Cinnaminson farm when he was 9. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Haverford College, where he was an all-American soccer player. He also received a master's degree in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in physics from the University of Iowa. Starting in the mid-1960s, Mr. Taylor worked as a researcher at institutions that included the National Academy of Sciences and Princeton University. In 1971, he became a professor at Stockton. Mr. Taylor chaired the college's chapter of Amnesty International, developed the Stockton College Observatory, and helped the school convert its heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system from gas to geothermal energy. He was active in social-action groups, including the Pompeston Creek Watershed Association and the Westfield Friends Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee. He joined efforts to preserve open space, including the 1976 conversion of part of his family's property into a wildlife preserve. Mr. Taylor was a lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends, chaired meetings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting representative council, and served on the governing board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ. He is survived by his wife, Suzanne Rie Day Taylor; sons Peter, Jeremy and Bernard Day; daughters Laura Kinnel, Amy Brooks and Doren Tenerowicz; nine grandchildren; his mother, Sylvia; two brothers; and three sisters. Harold Evans Taylor, 62, physicist, farmer Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - Friday, January 4, 2002 Harold Evans Taylor, 62, a physics professor at Richard Stockton State College in Pomona who moved back to his family farm in Cinnaminson to run the organic fruit and vegetable business started by his parents, died of cancer there on Dec. 27. Mr. Taylor was living in Egg Harbor City and teaching at Stockton when his father died in 1991. Five months later, he moved back to Cinnaminson to manage the farm with his mother. For 10 years, the professor harvested crops at the Taylors' Pick-Your-Own Organic Fruit and Vegetable Farm in between teaching Stockton students about physics and meteorology. He commuted 60 miles between the 41-acre Burlington County farm, which fronts on the Delaware River, and the liberal-arts college in the southeastern Pinelands in Atlantic County. Mr. Taylor, known as "Hal," was born in Philadelphia's Germantown section, but his family moved to the Cinnaminson farm when he was 9. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Haverford College, where he was an all-American soccer player. He also received a master's degree in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a doctorate in physics from the University of Iowa. Starting in the mid-1960s, Mr. Taylor worked as a researcher at institutions that included the National Academy of Sciences and Princeton University. In 1971, he became a professor at Stockton. Mr. Taylor chaired the college's chapter of Amnesty International, developed the Stockton College Observatory, and helped the school convert its heating, ventilating and air-conditioning system from gas to geothermal energy. He was active in social-action groups, including the Pompeston Creek Watershed Association and the Westfield Friends Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee. He joined efforts to preserve open space, including the 1976 conversion of part of his family's property into a wildlife preserve. Mr. Taylor was a lifelong member of the Religious Society of Friends, chaired meetings of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting representative council, and served on the governing board of the National Council of the Churches of Christ. He is survived by his wife, Suzanne Rie Day Taylor; sons Peter, Jeremy and Bernard Day; daughters Laura Kinnel, Amy Brooks and Doren Tenerowicz; nine grandchildren; his mother, Sylvia; two brothers; and three sisters.

  
  

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  [S48] Obit, for Harold.