Taylor, John W – Taylor, Virgil Corydon
Taylor, John W
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born March 26, 1784, in Charlton, N. Y. He was elected to the New York state legislature in 1811, and while in that body was elected to congress, where he served from 1813 to 1.833; and was speaker of the house for the second session of the sixteenth congress, during the passage of the Missouri compromise. He was also speaker of the nineteenth congress; and was a state senator in 1841 and 1842. He died Sept. 8, 1854, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Taylor, Jonathan
congressman, was born in Connecticut. He removed to Ohio; and was elected a representative in congress from that state from 1839 to 1841.
Taylor, Joseph Danner
soldier, lawyer, congressman, was born Nov. 7, 1830, in Belmont county, Ohio. He served in the union army as a commissioned officer during the war of the rebellion. He was twice elected prosecuting attorney of Ohio; and was president of the city school board for seven years. He was elected a representative from Ohio to the forty-seventh congress to fill a vacancy; and was re-elected to the forty-eighth, fiftieth, fifty-first, and fifty-second congresses as a republican.
Taylor, Joseph Hancock
soldier, was born Jan. 26, 1836, in Kentucky. In 1863 he was assigned to duty as assistant adjutant-general of the department at Washington. He was appointed a major on the staff in 1866; and was brevetted colonel for faithful services during the war. He died March 13, 1885, in Omaha, Neb.
Taylor, Joseph Pannel
soldier, was born May 4, 1796, in Louisville, Ky.
He entered the army in 1813; passed through all grades; and was commissioned a brigadier-general in 1863. He died June 29, 1864, in Washington, D. C.
Taylor, Mrs. Marie Hansen
translator, was born June 2, 1829, in Germany. She zealously promoted her husband's, Bayard Taylor, literary career, and translated into German his Greece; Hannah Thurston (Hamburg); Story of Kennett (Gotha, 1868); Tales of Home; and Studies in German Literature.
Taylor, Marshall William
clergyman, author, was born July 1, 1846, in Lexington, Ky. He was a methodist clergyman of African descent in Kentucky; and the author of Handbook for Schools; and The Negro in Methodism. He died Sept. 11, 1887, in Louisville, Ky.
Taylor, Miles
congressman, was born in New York. He was elected a representative from Louisiana to the thirtyfourth, thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth congresses; and withdrew in February, 1861.
Taylor, Moses
merchant, philanthropist, was born Jan. 11, 1806, in New York city. He was one of the originators of submarine telegraphy, and has been an active promoter of important railway lines. Among his charitable gifts was one of $250,000 in 1882 for a hospital for employes of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, and coal and iron companies at Scranton, Pa.
Taylor, Nathaniel G
lawyer, clergyman, congressman, was born Dec. 29, 1819, in Carter county, Tenn. He was a representative in congress from Tennessee from 1854 to 1855; was a presidential elector in 1853 and 1860; and was for several years a minister in the methodist episcopal church south. In 1865 he was elected a representative from Tennessee to the thirty-ninth congress. In 1867 he was appointed commissioner of Indian affairs.
Taylor, Nathaniel William
clergyman, author, was born June 23, 1786, in New Milford, Conn. He was a congregational clergyman prominent in his day as the exponent of the New Haven type of theology; and was Dwight professor at Yale university in 1822-38. He was the author of Practical Sermons; Moral Government of God; and Essays, etc., upon Select Topics in Revealed Theology.
He died March 10, 1858, in New Haven, Conn.
Taylor, Nelson
soldier, state senator, congressman, was born June 8, 1821, in South Norwalk, Conn. In 1849 he was elected to the state senate of California.
In 1861 he was mustered into military service as colonel of the seventy-second regiment of New York volunteers; and was promoted to the rank of brigadiergeneral in 1862. In 1864 he was elected a representative from New York to the thirty-ninth congress.
Taylor, Oliver Alden
clergyman, author, was born Aug. 18, 1801, in Yarmouth, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Manchester, Mass.; and the author of Brief Views of the Savior; and Life of Jesus. He died Dec. 18, 1851, in Manchester, Mass.
Taylor, Richard
soldier, author, was born Jan. 27, 1826, in New Orleans, La. He was a confederate officer; and the author of Destruction and Reconstruction. He died April 12, 1879, in New York city.
Taylor, Richard Cowling
geologist, author, was born Jan. 18, 1789, in England. He was an English geologist who came to America in 1830, among whose publications are, Geology and Natural History of the Northeast Extremity of the Alleghany Mountains; History and Description of Fossil Fuel; and Statistics of Coal. He died Nov. 26, 1851, in England.
Taylor, Robert
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1825 to 1827.
Taylor, Robert Barraud
soldier, lawyer, jurist, was born March 24, 1774, in Norfolk, Va. He was a member of the Virginia assembly in 1798-99. As a brigadier-general of Virginia militia he served in the defense of Norfolk in 1813-14. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1829-30, and judge of the general court of Virginia from 1831 till his death. He died April 13, 1834, in Norfolk, Va.
Taylor, Robert L
lawyer, congressman, was born July 31, 1850, in Hap-- py Valley, Tenn. He was elected a representative from Tennessee to the fortysixth congress as a democrat.
Taylor, Robert S
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born May 22, 1838, in Ross county, Ohio. He has attained success at the bar in Fort Wayne, Ind.; has served with distinction as a member of the Indiana state legislature; and also served one term on the bench. In 1881 he was a appointed member of the Mississippi river commission by President Garfield to succeed Benjamin Harrison. He is regarded as an authority on Mississippi river questions; and has published many addresses and papers on that subject. He was a member of the monetary commission appointed under the auspices of the Indianapolis convention of 1897; and during 1873-96 has published discussions of the money question covering all its various phases.
Taylor, Robert W
educator, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1852, in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1872 he commenced teaching in the high school in Lisbon, Ohio, and was elected superintendent of schools in 1873 and reelected in 1874. From 1875 to 1876 he was editor of the Buckeye State newspaper at Lisbon; was elected prosecuting attorney of Columbiana county in 1880; and re-elected in 1882, and served until January, 1896. He was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.
Taylor, Robert William
physician, educator, was born Aug. 11, 1842, in England. He is one of the surgeons of the venereal department of the Charity hospital, and physician to the department of skin diseases in Bellevue hospital dispensary, and for six years he was surgeon to the department of venereal and skin diseases of the New York dispensary.
Taylor, Rufus
clergyman, author, was born March 24, 1811, in Hanley, Mass.
He is a congregational minister of Massachusetts, whose home was at Beverly, N. J., after 1878. He is the author of Union to Christ; Love to God; Thoughts on Prayer; and Cottage Piety Exemplified.
Taylor, Samuel Harvey
educator, author, was born Oct. 3, 1807, in Derry, N. H. He was an educator long prominent in Massachusetts; and principal of Phillips academy, Andover, in 1837-71. He was the author of Method of Classical Study. He died Jan. 29, 1871, in Andover, Mass.
Taylor, Samuel M
soldier, state senator, was born April 19, 1831, in Wayne county, Ind. He entered the army in the late rebellion, and served with the one hundred and first regiment Indiana volunteers during the war. In 1876 he was honored by an election to the senatorial branch of the Indiana state legislature.
Taylor, Stephen William
college president, was born Oct. 28, 1791, in Adams, Mass. In 1851 he was elected president of Colgate university, holding that position until 1855, when he resigned.
He died Jan. 6, 1856.
Taylor, Thomas House
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 18, 1799, in Georgetown, S. C. He was an episcopal clergyman, prominent in New York city as the rector of Grace church in 1834-67, and active as a low church controversialist. He was the author of Sermons Preached in Grace Church. He died Sept. 9, 1867, in West Parke, N. Y.
Taylor, Travis
educator, lawyer, was born Oct. 2, 1853, in Fairview, Ill.
For ten years he lived in Lincoln county, Ky., and in 1868 moved to Howell county, Mo. For many years he was engaged in educational work, and is now one of the foremost lawyers of Missouri at Willow Springs.
Taylor, Virgil Corydon
musician, was born in 1817 in Barkhamstead, Conn. He endeavored to introduce in musical notation an index-staff in which the key-note occupies a heavier line or a wider space. He published collections of sacred and secular songs, containing many compositions by himself. Their titles are Sacred Minstrel; The Lute, or Musical Instructor; Choral Anthems; The Golden Lyre; Concordia; The Chime; The Celestina; The Song Festival; The Enchanter; The Concertina; and The Praise Offering.