Background
Paul Schuster Taylor was born June 9, 1895, to Henry Taylor and Rose Eugenia Schuster in Sioux City, Iowa, United States.
Paul Schuster Taylor was born June 9, 1895, to Henry Taylor and Rose Eugenia Schuster in Sioux City, Iowa, United States.
Paul Schuster Taylor earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
In 1980 - a professor of economics emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, Paul Taylor was research director for the California Labor Federation in 1970. He was a consultant to the United Nations in 1963 and to the Agency for International Development at various times from 1955 to 1968. Paul Taylor consulted with the Department of Interior from 1943 to 1952, with the Export-Import Bank in 1952, and with the Social Security Board from 1936 to 1941. Paul Taylor served as field director for the Division of Rural Rehabilitation of the California Emergency Relief Administration in 1935 and was regional labor adviser for the U.S. Resettlement Administration (later the Farm Security Administration) in 1935.
Paul Taylor married Katharine Page Whiteside on May 15, 1920, in Alameda, California. They had three children, Katharine, Ross, and Margaret.
In 1934 Paul Taylor saw the work of the documentary photographer Dorothea Lange and recruited her to his project. They both divorced their first spouses and on December 6, 1935, married one other, forming a living and working partnership that continued until Lange's death in 1965. They had no children together but were parents to Lange's two sons from her first marriage as well as Taylor's three children.