In 1943, she married Seth Taft, a grandson of president William H. Taft and a future longtime member of the Jones Day law firm who was defeated in the 1967 election that made Carl Stokes the first ...

Frances "Franny" Taft sits in the studio she designed in the Pepper Pike home she built with her husband, the late Seth Taft. (Thomas Ondrey, The Plain Dealer) A lifetime of memories adorns the Pepper ...

Cleveland’s mayoralty race had every prospect of being a model campaign. Democrat Carl B. Stokes, a Negro and son of a laundry worker, and Republican Seth Taft, scion of a distinguished political ...

TAFT, SETH CHASE (31 Dec. 1922 – 14 April 2013) was a lawyer, civic leader, and Republican Party politician best known as CARL STOKES' opponent in the famous 1967 Cleveland mayoral race narrowly won ...

TAFT, FRANCES PRINDLE (12 Dec. 1921 - 14 May 2017) was an influential arts educator and Cleveland civic leader. “Franny” Taft, as she was known, taught at the CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF ART (CIA) for 62 ...