By the time she had finished high school and completed the course at the Cincinnati University, “Bub” Taft, as he was nicknamed by his comrades, had graduated from Yale and was studying law and doing court reporting at the same time, this last for Murat Halstead’s Cincinnati paper, which paid him but six dollars a week when he started. Although his time was so well filled, he still had ample to help “Nellie Herron” organize a literary society, which they called the “Salon,” and which met each Saturday evening at the Herron home on Pike Street. Made up of a small group of young men and women, mostly just out of college, it held together for several years, its members writing essays which they read to each other, and discussing matters of current interest. At this time, Miss Herron was teaching in a private school. This little club had the encouragement of the parents of both of these young people, who were members of the Cincinnati Literary Club, of which Judge Taft became the president. Young William later attained membership in this exclusive club of older folk, and the fact gave him added prestige with the junior group. Miss Herron had in the meantime developed her music and become one of the founders of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Young Taft soon made his intentions regarding Miss Nellie very plain by outstaying all other members of the “Salon,” and it was not long before their betrothal was announced. Their engagement was a long one, as he had resolved first to build a home for his bride, an ambition that he saw gratified in the spring of 1886 when “The Quarry,” on East Walnut Hills, became a reality. A June wedding followed, when he was twenty-eight and she just twenty-five. This marriage service and all of the details were brought to public attention in June of 1911, when the President and Mrs. Taft followed the precedent set by their old friends, President and Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, by also having a silver wedding anniversary celebration, in a charming reception and dinner at the White House. Following their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Taft went to Europe on their honeymoon and started the travelling habit that kept them journeying about the world until his election to the Presidency settled his residence for four years. The most eventful and important of Mr. Taft’s many missions was the one that took him to the Philippines when President McKinley found himself, through the fortunes of war, with eight million strange people on his hands and called upon Mr. Taft to take charge and teach these people the principles of home government and the ideals of American citizenship.