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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.