Taylor, George Herbert – Taylor, John Vincent
Taylor, George Herbert
lawyer, author, was born May 10, 1853, in Berkshire, Vt. He is the author of Fifteen Years a Mystery; Erastus Corning; An Agreement and What Came of It; William Livingston; Trout Fishing in Wisconsin; A Bear Hunt in Vermont; and Hunting in Minnesota.
Taylor, George K
lawyer, jurist.
In 1801 he was appointed United States judge of the circuit court for the fourth circuit.
Taylor, George Lansing
clergyman, author, was born Feb. 13, 1835, in Skaneateles, N. Y. He is a methodist clergyman of eastern New York; and the author of Elijah the Reformer, a Ballad Epic; Grant: an Elegy, and Other Poems; What Shall we Do with the Sunday School?; and The New Africa.
Taylor, George W
lumber merchant, state legislator, was born March 31, 1855, in Wenham, Mass. He is a successful lumber merchant of Marinette, Wis. In 1894 he was elected a member of the Wisconsin state legislature, and received the re-election in 1896.
Taylor, George Washington
soldier, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born Jan. 16, 1849, in Montgomery county, Ala. He enlisted as a private in company D, first regiment South Carolina cavalry, and served as a courier till the end of the war. He was elected to the lower house of the general assembly of Alabama in 1878, and served one term as a member from Choctaw county. In 1880 he was elected state solicitor for the • first judicial circuit of Alabama, and was re-elected in 1886. He was elected to the fifty-fifth congress of the United States as a democrat.
Taylor, George William
soldier, was born Nov. 22, 1808, in Hunterdon county, N. J. When the civil war began he was made colonel of the third New Jersey infantry. He received his commission as brigadier-general of volunteers in 1862. He died in September, 1862, in Alexandria, Va.
Taylor, Hannis
lawyer, author, was born in 1851 in North Carolina. He is a lawyer of Mobile, minister to Spain in 1893-97; and the author of The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution.
Taylor, Henry Osborn
author, was born in 1856 in New York. He is a legal writer of New York city; and the author of Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations, a standard work much used as a text-book in law schools; and Ancient Ideals.
Taylor, Ida Scott
author, poet, was born in Springfield, Ill. With Martha C. Oliver she has written three juvenile books in verse entitled The Story of Columbus; In Slavery Days; and The Far West.
Taylor, Isaac Ebenezer
physician, author, was born April 25, 1812, in Philadelphia, Pa. In 1861 the Bellevue Hospital Medical college was incorporated and went into operation, and he became its president and treasurer. He was one of the originators of the New York Medical Journal, and president of its association in 1869-70.
Taylor, Isaac Hamilton
lawyer, congressman, was born April 18, 1840, near New Harrisburg, Ohio. He engaged in the practice of the law at Carrollton, Ohio, in his native county; and was clerk of the courts of Carroll county from 1870 to 1877. In 1884 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-ninth congress as a republican.
Taylor, James Barnett
missionary, author, was born March 19, 1819, in England. He was a baptist missionary in Virginia; and the author of Life of Lot Cary; and Lives of Virginia Baptist Ministers. He died Dec. 22, 1871, in Richmond, Va. TAYLOR, [JAMES] BAYARD, author, poet, was born in 1825 in Pennsylvania.
He was an author well known as poet, novelist, translator, and traveler.
His volumes of verse comprise Ximena, and Other Poems; Rhymes of Travel; Poems and Ballads; Poems of Home and Travel; Poems of the Orient, his most original work; The Picture of St. John; The Poet's Journal; Lars; The Masque of the Gods; Home Pastorals; Prince Deukalion; The Prophet, a tragedy; and Centennial Ode. In fiction he published Beauty and the Beast; Hannah Thurston; The Story of Kennett; John Godfrey's Fortune; Joseph and His Friend. His travels include Views Afoot; Eldorado; Byways of Europe; Central Africa; Egypt and Iceland; Greece and Russia; At Home and Abroad; India, China, and Japan; The Lands of the Saracen; and Colorado. The translation of Faust is his greatest work, and the one on which his fame will most securely rest. Other works of his are School History of Germany; Literary Essays and Notes; Studies in German Literature; and The Echo Club, and Other Literary Diversions. He died in 1878.
Taylor, James Monroe
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 5, 1848, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He has been president of Vassar college from 1886; and is the author of Psychology.
Taylor, James Wickes
public official, author, was born Nov. 6, 1819, in Starkey, Yates county, N. Y. He was a United States consul at Winnipeg, Manitoba, from 1870; and the author of The Victim of Intrigue, a Tale of Burr's Conspiracy; History of Ohio, First Period: 1620-1787; Manual of Ohio School System; Forest and Fruit Culture in Manitoba; and Mineral Resources of the United States. He died in 1893.
Taylor, John
United States senator, author, was born in 1750 in Orange county, Va. He was a politician of prominence in his day as a United States senator from Virginia in 1792-94, and also in 1803-09, and 1822-24. He was the author of Inquiry into the Principles and Polity of the United States Government; Agricultural Essays; Construction Construed; Tyranny Unmasked; and New Views of the United States Constitution. He died Aug. 20, 1824, in Caroline county, Va.
Taylor, John
missionary, author, was born in 1752 in Fauquier county, Va.
He published an account of his religious labors and of the churches that he had aided in founding, under the title of A History of Ten Baptist Missions. He died in 1833 in Forks of Elkhorn, Ky. 4
Taylor, John
lawyer, congressman, United States senator, governor, was born May 4, 1770, in Columbia, S. C. He served in the South Carolina state legislature a number of years; was a presidential elector in 1797; was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1807 to 1809, and also from 1817 to 1821. He was a senator in congress from 1810 to 1816; was a trustee of the South Carolina college in 1806; a state senator in 1810 and 1822; and was governor of the state from 1826 to 1828. He was also at one time receiver of public moneys in Mississippi territory. He died April 16, 1832, in Columbia, S. C.
Taylor, John J
Congressman, was born in Massachusetts. He settled in New York; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1853 to
Taylor, John L
lawyer, congressman, was born March 7, 1805, in Stafford county, Va. He settled in Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1829; and was for six years major-general of the Ohio militia. He was a representative in congress from Ohio from 1847 to 1855; and in 1870 was appointed a clerk in the interior department. He died Sept. 6, 1870, in Washington, D. C.
Taylor, John Louis
lawyer, jurist, author, was born March 1, 1769, in England. He was a former chief justice of North Carolina in 1810-29; and the author of Superior Court Cases in Law and Equity; The North Carolina Law Repository; Term Reports; and Duties of Executors and Administrators. He died Jan. 29, 1829, in Raleigh, N. C.
Taylor, John May
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born May 18, 1838, in Lexington, Tenn. He entered the confederate army in 1861; was elected lieutenant; and was subsequently promoted to the rank of major. In 1869 he was elected mayor of Lexington, Tenn.; and was attorney-general of the eleventh judicial circuit from 1870 to 1878. He was a member of the state house of representatives in the called sessions of 1881 and 1882. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-eighth congress; and was reelected to the forty-ninth congress as a democrat.
Taylor, John Neilson
lawyer, author, was born July 24, 1805, in New Brunswick, N. J. He was a lawyer of Brooklyn; and the author of American Law of Landlord and Tenant; and The Law of Executors and Administrators in New York State. He died Feb. 6, 1878, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Taylor, John Orville
reformer, author, was born May 14, 1807, in Charlton, N. Y. He was an educational writer and reformer long prominent in New York state, and after 1879 a resident of New Brunswick, N. J. He was the author of The District School, or Popular Education. He died Jan. 18, 1890, in New Brunswick, N. J.
Taylor, John Vincent
soldier, poet, was born in 1834 in Bristol, England. In 1862 he moved to New York, making a name for himself by his contributions to the Christian Intelligencer, at the outbreak of the civil war, upon the leading topics of that time. Eventually he volunteered and joined the second New York state militia, eighty-second regiment for three years for the war, having the good fortune in his first battle at the Wilderness to rescue and bring the stars and stripes from the field where they had been left by the color-sergeant, who was shot. In 1872 he sailed for Australia, and was known among Australian journalists as That Young Man from America. He became connected with the United States Sewing Machine Times; at the same time contributed to the Age of Steel, St. Louis, Mo., as well as supplying New York letters to various American and European publications.