She and several of her friends formed a reading club and read aloud and discussed articles from the Atlantic Monthly magazine or books. Taylor had a lifetime enjoyment of reading aloud. She attended parties given by the Bells at Briarhurst and the Palmers at Glen Eyrie and formed the 'Cheap and Hungry Dances' with her sister and girlfriends. Taylor enjoyed playing tennis, riding horses, picnicking in the canons and at Garden of the Gods and ice skating. She lived a life of a child of wealthy parents, having attended private schools in Colorado Springs, spent the summers on the East Coast and, with her sister Maude and her mother, studied and traveled in Europe in 1896. Judson Moss Bemis lived in the home several months a year and conducted business and lived the rest of the year in Boston. From 1885, they lived at the Judson Moss Bemis House on Cascade Avenue. The family first lived near Helen Hunt Jackson and William Jackson on Weber Street. After a few years, Alice Cogswell Bemis health was restored sufficiently for her to live a 'comparatively normal life', after which the family spent the summers on the East Coast. The Bemis family moved to Colorado Springs in 1881 for Alice's mother's health when the girl was 4 years of age. Louis Albert Farwell born in Boston Maude, Lucy and Alice all born in Newton, Massachusetts. Īlice and Judson Moss Bemis had five children: Judson, born in 1867 in St. Judson Moss Bemis House, the childhood home of Alice Bemis TaylorĪlice Bemis was born in Newton, Massachusetts to Alice Cogswell Bemis and Judson Moss Bemis, philanthropist and founder of J.

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