Taylor, Albert Vincent – Taylor, George Henry
Taylor, Albert Vincent
soldier, manufacturer, state senator, congressman, was born Dec. 6, 1845, in Bedford. He enlisted in company H, one hundred and fiftieth Ohio volunteer infantry, and subsequently in company H, one hundred and seventy-seventh Ohio volunteer infantry, and served in that regiment until the close of the war, when he began business as a manufacturer, and has been He so engaged up to the present time. served two years, 1888 and 1889, in the Ohio senate; and was elected to the fiftysecond congress as a republican. He is one of the foremost lawyers of Ohio at Cleveland.
Taylor, Alexander Smith
ethnologist, author, was born April 16, 1817, in Charleston, S. C. He published a translation of the diary of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, under the title of The First Voyage to the Coast of California; a History of Grasshoppers and Locusts of America in the report of the Smithsonian institution for 1858; The Indianology of California in the California Farmer; and Bibliographia Californica in the Sacramento Union. He died July 27, 1876, in Santa Barbara, Cal.
Taylor, Alexander Wilson
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born March 22, 1815, in Indiana county, Pa. He was a member of the Pennsylvania legislature in 1859 and 1860; and was elected to the forty-third congress.
Taylor, Alfred
naval officer, was born May 23, 1810, in Fairfax county, Va.
He entered the navy as a midshipman in 1826, and was commissioned a lieutenant in 1837. He was promoted to rear-admiral in 1872, and was retired by operation of law. He died April 19, 1891, in Washington, D. C.
Taylor, Alfred
clergyman, author, was born in 1831 in Philadelphia, Pa. He is a presbyterian clergyman of Philadelphia; and the author of Peeps at Our Sunday Schools; Sunday School Photographs; and Hints about Sunday School Work.
ALFRED TAYLOR, ALEXANDER, lawyer, congressman, was born in 1849 near Elizabethton, Tenn. He was elected to the Tennessee legislature in 1875 from Carter and Johnson counties. He was elected to the fifty-first and fifty-second and re-elected to the fifty-third congress as a republican.
Taylor, Archibald Alexander Edward
journalist, educator, college president, author, was born Aug. 27, 1834, in Springfield, Ohio. From 1873 till 1883 he was president of Wooster university, Ohio. He continued to be connected with the institution as professor of logic and political economy and dean of the postgraduate department for five years longer. He then became editor of The Mid-Continent, the organ of the presbyterian church in the southwest, published in St. Louis, Mo.
Taylor, Arthur H
lawyer, congressman, was born Feb. 29, 1852, in Caledonia Springs, Canada. In 1880 and again in 1882 he was elected prosecuting attorney for the eleventh judicial circuit of Indiana; and was elected to the fifty-third congress as a democrat.
Taylor, Asher
congressman. He was a representative from New York to the twenty-eighth congress.
Taylor, Barnard C
theologian, author, was born May 20, 1850, in Holmdel, N. J. For many years he has filled the chair of old testament exegesis in the Crozer Theological seminary of Chester, Pa. He has done considerable editorial work on Sunday school periodicals of the American Baptist Publication society; and is the author of two books on biblical subjects.
Taylor, Bayard
journalist, author, was born Jan. 11, 1825, in Kennett square, Pa. In 1846 he published a book containing the experiences of his journeyings; edited a newspaper at Phoenixville, Pa., for a year; then went to New York city and engaged in editorial work. In 1851 he set out on a protracted tour in the east, which occupied several years; and in 1862 and 1863 was secretary of the United States legation at St. Petersburg, Russia, and part of the time acting charge d' affaires. In 1874 he revisited Egypt, and attended the millennial celebration in Ireland. In 1878 he was appointed United States minister to Germany. He died Dec. 19, 1878, in Berlin, Prussia.
Taylor, Benjamin Cook
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 24, 1801, in Philadelphia, Pa. From 1828 till the time of his death he was pastor of the reformed church of Bergen, the two hundredth anniversary of which he commemorated in a sermon in 1861. Besides this and other discourses, he published Annals of the Classis and Township of Bergen. He died Feb. 2, 1881, in Bergen, N. J.
Taylor, Benjamin Franklin
author, poet, was born July 19, 1819, in Lowville, N. Y. He was a popular poet of Chicago; and the author of Songs of Yesterday; Old Time Pictures, and Sheaves of Rhyme; Dulce Domum; Between the Gates; Summer Savory; The River of Time; Pictures of Life in Camp and Field; Complete Poems; and Theophilus Trent, a novel. He died Feb. 24, 1887, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Taylor, Caleb N
agriculturist, congressman, was born in 1819 in Sunbury, Pa.
In 1866 he was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican.
Taylor, Charles
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 15, 1819, in Boston, Mass. He is a methodist clergyman who was a missionary to China in 1848-54; and the author of Five Years in China; and Baptism in a Nutshell.
Taylor, Charles Elisha
college president, educator, was born Oct. 28, 1842, in Richmond, Va. For fourteen years he was professor of Latin in the Wake Forest college, North Carolina, of which institution he has been president since 1884.
Taylor, Charles Fayette
surgeon, author, was born April 25, 1827, in Willistown, Vt. He is a surgeon of New York city; and the author of Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure; Spinal Irritation; Sensation and Pain; Mechanical Treatment of Angular Curvature of the Spine; Treatment of Disease of the Hip Joint; and Infantile Paralysis.
Taylor, E. J
educator, was born Oct. 22, 1869, in Waddington, N. Y. He has attained success in educational work, and is now county superintendent of public education at Ellisville, Miss.
Taylor, Edward
clergyman, author, was born in 1642 in England. He left several manuscript volumes, including a Commentary on the Four Gospels; Christographia, or a Discourse on the Virtues and Character of Christ; and poems in English and in Latin. He died June 29, 1729, in Westfield, Mass.
Taylor, Daniel T
clergyman, author, poet, was born March 20, 1823, in Rouse's Point, N. Y. Since 1846 he has been in the ministry, and now fills a pastorate in Hyde Park, Mass. He is the author of numerous pamphlets and tracts; and a volume entitled the Reign of Christ.
Taylor, Ezra B
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born July 9, 1823, in Nelson, Ohio. In 1861 he moved to Warren, Ohio; and was judge of the court of common pleas for the ninth judicial district from 1877 to 1880. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the fortysixth congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-seventh, fortyeighth, forty-ninth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses as a republican.
Taylor, Fitch Waterman
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 4, 1803, in Middle Haddam. He was an episcopal chaplain in the United States navy; and the author of The Flag Ship, or a Voyage Around the World; and The Broad Pennant. He died July 23, 1865, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Taylor, George
signer of the declaration of independence, was born in 1716 in Ireland. In 1764 he was elected to the provincial assembly at Philadelphia, serving six years. He was again elected to the assembly in 1775; was a delegate to the continental congress in 1776 and 1777; and was a signer of the declaration of independence. He died Feb. 23, 1781, in Easton, Pa.
Taylor, George
lawyer, congressman, author, was born Oct. 19, 1820, in Wheeling, W. Va. In 1856 he was elected from Alabama a representative to the thirty-fifth congress. As an author, writing upon topics connected with the natural sciences, he was successful; a work published in 1851 and entitled Indications of the Creator has passed through four editions, and been highly applauded by the critics of England and France.
Taylor, George Boardman
missionary, author, was born Dec. 27, 1832, in Richmond, Va. He is a baptist missionary in Rome since 1873; and the author of Oakland Stories; Costar Grew; Roger Bemant, the Pastor's Son; Walter Ennis, a tale of the Early Virginia Baptists; and Life of J. B. Taylor.
Taylor, George Draper
lawyer, was born Oct. 21, 1859, in Luzerne county, Pa. He received his education at the Wyoming seminary of Kingston, Pa., and has attained prominence as one of the leading lawyers of his native state at Scranton.
Taylor, George Edwin
journalist, was born Aug. 4, 1857, in Little Rock, Ark. He is the editor and owner of the Solicitor, a national journal published at Oskaloosa, Iowa. He has attained success as a speaker; takes a prominent part in political affairs; and was a delegate to the Chicago democratic national convention in 1896.
Taylor, George Henry
physician, author, was born in 1821 in Willistown, Vt. He is a physician of New York city, among whose writings are Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure; Health for Women; Massage; and Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics.