Taylor, Walter – Tefft, Benjamin Franklin
Taylor, Walter
soldier, lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born in 1786 in Lunenburg county, Va. He was a judge of the territory of Indiana in 1806. He was aide-de-camp to Gen. Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe; and was United States senator from Indiana from 1816 to 1825. He died Aug. 26, 1826, in Lunenburg, Va.
Taylor, Walter Herron
soldier, banker, author, was born June 13, 1838, in Norfolk, Va. He was a confederate officer during the civil war, and subsequently a banker in Norfolk. He is the author of The Book of Travels of a Doctor of Physic; and Four Years with General Lee.
Taylor, William
congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from that state from 1833 to 1835.
Taylor, William
lawyer, congressman, was born in Alexandria, D. C. He was elected a representative in congress from Virginia, and served from 1843 to 1846. He died Jan. 17, 1846, in Washington, D. C.
Taylor, William
physician, state legislator, congressman, was born in 1793, in Connecticut. He was president of the New York Medical society; and was a practicing physician for fifty years. He was for many years president of the board of supervisors of the state of New York.
He was a member of the state legislature in 1841, 1842, 1852 and 1853, in the two latter years representing New York city.
He was a representative in congress from New York from 1833 to 1839. He died Sept. 6, 1865, in Manlius, N. Y.
Taylor, William
missionary, author, was born May 2, 1821, in Rockbridge county, Va.
He is a noted methodist missionary and evangelist, appointed bishop in Africa in 1884, among whose writings are, California Life Illustrated; Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco; Pauline Methods of Missionary Work; The Model Preacher; Reconciliation; The Election of Grace; Christian Adventures in South Africa; and Our South American Cousins.
Taylor, William A
journalist, poet, lawyer, politician, was born April 25, 1837, in Perry county, Ohio. Commencing to write prose and verse at the age of fifteen, he taught school at intervals for the following six years, at the same time being editor and part proprietor of Perry County Democrat. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the bar, practiced law for four years in connection with editorial work, and was also state's attorney a part of the same time. He then became one of the editorial writers of the Cincinnati Enquirer. He served in the army of the Potomac during the war, after the close of which he resumed editorial work on the Enquirer.
He was chief editorial writer of the Pittsburg Post for eight years subsequent to 1868. He next was employed successively on the New York Sun for two years; then on the New York World for a period; next was managing editor of the Pittsburg Telegraph for nearly two years; and then became editorial manager of Columbus Democrat and Times for several years. He is now again with the Cincinnati Enquirer as staff correspondent and general. political writer.
Taylor, William Bower
lawyer, physicist, journalist, was born May 23, 1821, in Philadelphia. In 1854 he was made an examiner in the United States patent office in Washington, where he remained until 1877. He was appointed editor of the publications of the Smithsonian institution in 1878.
Taylor, William H
journalist, author, was born May 2, 1862, in Arctic, R. I. He is the editor and business manager of the Shore Line Times of New Haven, Conn.; and is part owner of the Windham County Standard of Putnam, Conn. He was a messenger in the Connecticut house of representatives in 1884; doorkeeper in 1889; and is the author of Taylor's Souvenir of the Capitol, 1877-98, the best of the kind ever published in any state.
Taylor, William James Romeyn
clergyman, author, was born July 31, 1823, in Schodack, N. Y. In 1869 he had charge of a church in Newark, N. J. He presided over the general synod in 1871. From 1872 till 1876 he edited the Christian Intelligencer, and attended the presbyterian councils held in Philadelphia, Belfast, and London. He has published hymns, addresses, sermons, and tracts. He is the author of Louisa, a Pastor's Memorial (Philadelphia); The Bible in the Last Hundred Years; Church Extension in Large Cities; and On Co-operation in Foreign Missions.
Taylor, William Mackergo
clergyman, author, was born Oct. 23, 1829, in Scotland. He was a presbyterian clergyman of eminence.. He came from Scotland to New York city in 1871, and was pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle in 1871-93. He was the author of Contrary Winds; The Limitations of Life; The Lost Found; The Gospel Miracles; Prayer and Business; Life Truths; John Knox; Joseph the Prime Minister; Ruth the Gleaner and Esther the Queen; David, King of Israel; Elijah the Prophet; Peter the Apostle; Daniel the Beloved; Moses the Law-Giver; Paul the Missionary; and The Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation. He died in 1895.
Taylor, William R
agriculturist, state senator, governor, was born in 1820 in Connecticut. He moved to Wisconsin in 1848, and turned his attention to farming; and held various county offices. He was elected to the state legislature, both house and senate; and in 1873 was elected governor of Wisconsin.
Taylor, Zachary
twelfth president of the United States, was born Sept. 24, 1784, in Orange county, Va. He received a very limited common school education. In 1808 he was appointed lieutenant in the United States infantry. Mr.
Taylor was married in 1810. He was promoted from time to time, and in 1840 attained the rank of brigadier general.
About this time he purchased a large estate in Louisiana. In 1845 he was ordered to Mexico, and commanded at the battles of Palo Alto, Matamoras, Monterey and Buena Vista. June 7, 1848, the whig national convention met at Philadelphia. June 8 the balloting commenced. On the first ballot Zachary Taylor received 111 votes; Henry Clay, 97; Winfield Scott, 46; Daniel Webster, 21, and John McLean, 2.
After another unsuccessful ballot the convention adjourned. On the first ballot, June 9, Taylor received 133 votes; Clay, 74; Scott, 53; Webster, 16, and John M.
Clayton, 1. The second ballot resulted in a choice, Taylor having received 171 votes; Scott, 63; Clay, 30; Webster, 12. Millard Fillmore was nominated for vice-president, Messrs. Taylor and Fillmore were elected the coming fall, and took the oath of office March 5, 1849, the fourth of March occurring on Sunday (inauguration day) the second time, and occurred again in 1877.
Mr. Taylor died July 9, 1850. Taylor never held a political office or cast a vote until he was elected to the presidency.
He left an estate worth about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Taylor, Zachary
lawyer, state senator, congressman, was born May 9, 1849, in Haywood county, Tenn. In 1880 he was elected a senator in the forty-second general assembly of Tennessee; and was postmaster at Covington from 1883 to 1885.
In 1884 he was elected a representative from Tennessee to the forty-ninth gress as a republican. con-
Tazewell, Henry
lawyer, jurist, state legislator, United States senator, was born in 1753 in Brunswick county, Va.
In 1775 he was a member of the Virginia house of burgesses, and in the convention of 1776. He was a member of the house of delegates for many years; was elected judge in 1785; and of the first court of appeals in 1793. From 1794 to 1799 he was United States senator from Virginia. He died Jan. 24, 1799, in Philadelphia, Pa.
Tazewell, Littleton Waller
lawyer, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Dec. 17, 1774, in Williamsburg, Va. He was a member of the Virginia legislature in 1798. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1799 to 1801; and was a senator in congress from 1824 to 1832. He was governor of Virginia from 1834 to 1836. He died May 6, 1860, in Norfolk, Va.
Teager, Michael Moores
soldier, lawyer, poet, was born May 1, 1833, in Bath county, Ky. In 1880 he was elected county and prosecuting attorney in Kentucky, and subsequently was appointed master in chancery. He has been editor of several newspapers; and is the author of a number of poems, and a volume in blank verse entitled Marian.
Teall, Francis Augustus
journalist, was born Aug. 16, 1822, in Fort Anne, N. Y. He assisted Ephraim G.
Squier in preparing his Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, and John R. Bartlett in the first edition of his Dictionary of Americanisms, and made the analytical index to the American edition of Napier's Peninsular War. In 1853 he became editor of a newspaper at Huntington, L. I.
Teese, Frederick H
lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born Oct. 12, 1823, in Newark, N. J. In 1860 he was a member of the New Jersey general assembly; and was re-elected in 1861, and made speaker. He was appointed presiding judge of the Essex court of common pleas in 1864; and was reappointed in 1869. He was elected a representative from New Jersey to the forty-fourth congress.
Tefft, Benjamin Franklin
clergyman, author, was born in 1813 in Floyd, N. Y. He was a methodist clergyman of Maine; and the author of The Shoulder- Knot, a Story of the Seventeenth Century; Memorials of Prison Life; Methodism Successful; Our Political Parties; Evolution and Christianity; Hungary and Kossuth; and Life of Daniel Webster. He died Sept. 16, 1885, in Brewer, Maine.