Taitt was born in Burlington, New Jersey, and moved with his family to Philadelphia at age 8.

He served for four years as curate of Old St. Peter's Church in central Philadelphia, five and a half years as rector of Old Trinity Church in Philadelphia's Southwark neighborhood,[1] and 37 years as rector of Old St. Paul's Church in Chester, Pennsylvania.

[3][4][5] In 1937, he organized a pageant, entitled The Drama of Missions, with 1,300 actors.

[6] On June 24, 1940, Taitt offered the invocation at the opening of the second session of the 1940 Republican National Convention.

His remains were entombed in the crypt of the Episcopal Cathedral, now St. Mary's Church, Roxborough, Philadelphia.