[1] After receiving a classical education, he entered the office of John Lansing Jr., then Chancellor of New York, and studied law.
[2] In 1833, he formed a partnership with Amos Dean, and, reportedly, he was ranked among the ablest attorneys of the city and gained a large and profitable business, and was known by the nickname "Razor Tabor".
[4] In 1854, Tabor retired from practice due to ill health and returned to Knox.
[6] Together, they were the parents of:[1] After the death of his first wife in 1834, he remarried to her younger sister, Catherine Ann Elizabeth Todd (1804–1840).
They were the parents of one child before her death in 1840: Tabor died on June 10, 1855, in Rensselaer County, New York.