He worked as a farm hand, then found a job as a stableman and janitor for a local banker.
Taber eventually became a teller, cashier, and loan officer at his employer’s bank.
[1]: 74–76 Taber joined a militia in the northern Dakota Territory during the Indian resistance of September 1890.
[1]: 77 The uprising in the north ended with the death of Sitting Bull, who was shot and killed by an Indian policeman.
Clarence Taber moved to Minneapolis and began his business career with the “Anatomical and Physiological Chart of the Human Body,” which he published in partnership with I. J. Eales.
[1]: 77–78 Clarence Taber was hired as a full-time nursing textbook editor by the F. A. Davis Company in 1931.