Background
Taber, Stephen was born on April 24, 1882 in Victory, Cayuga County, New York, United States. Son of George Albert and Caroline Lake (Crowell) Taber.
Taber, Stephen was born on April 24, 1882 in Victory, Cayuga County, New York, United States. Son of George Albert and Caroline Lake (Crowell) Taber.
Bachelor of Arts, Stanford, 1906. Doctor of Philisophy, University of Virginia, 1912.
Field assistant to the California Earthquake Investigation Commission, 1906. Assayer and chemist, Santa Maria de Guadalupe, Minillas, Zac., Mexico, 1906-1907. Private work in Virginia, 1908-1909.
Assistant geologist, Virginia Geological Survey, 1909-1912.
Instructor economic geology, University of Virginia, 1909-1912. Professor geology and mineralogy, University of South Carolina.
September 1912-1947. State geologist 1914-1947.
Associate professor geology, Stanford University, summer 1920.
Member Puerto Rico Earthquake Commission, 1918-1919. Fellow Geological Society of America, Mineral. Society America, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Member Societe Geologique de France, American Institute Mining Engineers (life), South Carolina.
Academy Science (president 1930), Seismological Society of America (chairman Eastern Section 1932), American Geophysical Union, Geological Society of London, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, et cetera
Married Bessie Ray, June 1914. Children: Elsie, Molly, Stephen.