During World War I, Taylor and her friend Emilie Widemann Macfarlane organized knitting units on behalf of Native Hawaiian soldiers fighting in World War I. Around this same period, she became a supporter of the women's suffrage movement in 1912. Native Hawaiian women of high societal rank like Taylor were the key contributor to this cause early on. In 1917, _she_ attended a party hosted by Emma Nakuina to honor Almira Hollander Pitman, a visiting suffragist from the mainland United States, and wife of Benjamin F. Pitman, a cousin of Taylor's. <sep>, Pronoun: she