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Tayler, John

merchant, congressman, was born July 4, 1742, in New York. He became a merchant at Albany, N. Y., in 1773; superintended the commissary department on the expedition to Canada in 1775; and was a member of the provincial congress. He was for nearly forty years a member of the legislature of New York; and was lieutenant-governor of the state from 1813 to 1822. He died March 19, 1829, in Albany, N. Y.

Tayler, Robert Walker

lawyer, state senator, was born Nov. 9, 1812, in Harrisburg, Pa. In 1851 he was elected mayor of Youngstown, Ohio; and was elected to the state senate in 1855 and 1857. He was auditor of the state from 1860 to 1863; and in the latter year was appointed first comptroller of the United States treasury. He died Feb. 25, 1878.

Taylor, Abner

merchant, congressman, was born in Maine. He was a member of the Illinois state legislature for one term; and was elected to the fifty-first congress, and re-elected to the fifty-second congress as a republican.

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, 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, 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.