TAYLOR, Jabez

TAYLOR, WOLSHAW, LOCKWOOD, CLARK, POTTER, STOCKBARGER, GERMOND, REIBURN, DYE, GETZ

Posted By: Nettie Mae
Date: 1/19/2003 at 01:05:43

Source: "The 1901 Biographical Record of Clinton Co., Iowa, Illustrated" published: Chicago : S. J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1901.

JABEZ TAYLOR

Among the leading agriculturist of Bloomfield township is Jabez Taylor, who resides on section seven. He was born on the 17th of February, 1848, in Yorkshire, England, where his parents, Uriah and Martha (Wolshaw) Taylor, made their home throughout life, although the father once visited America. By occupation he was a woolen manufacturer. He died January 24, 1892, and his wife passed away July 16, 1877. They had a family of six children, namely: Henry is engaged in the jewelry business in Meltha, England; Hanna is the wife of Ernest Barnes, a farmer of Harrison county, Iowa; Jabez, our subject, is the next in order of birth; Christina was a school teacher in early life and is now the wife of Robert W. Lockwood, of Dodgeworth, England; Thomas E. was married in Philadelphia, but afterward returned to England, and is now engaged in the jewelry business at Meltha; Charles is also married, and is a resident of Honley, England.

During his boyhood and youth Jabez Taylor pursued his studies in the schools of his native land, and remained at home until twenty-two years of age, when he took passage on the steamship Brooklyn, which sailed from Liverpool to New York. During the last night on board there was a very sever storm. Mr.. Taylor remained three days in New York City, and then came west by rail to Burlington, Iowa, then up the river to Sabula, and on foot to Spragueville, where he worked for Uncle John Hall*ode three years. At the end of that time he entered the train service of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, with which he was connected a year and a half. He was next engaged in the manufacture of brick, having purchased a brick-yard at Delmar, which he conducted for two years, and the brick which he made is now in many of the school-houses of this section of the county, as well as in many other buildings and private residences. Mr. Taylor next turned his attention to farming, and while living in Delmar operated rented land for four years. In 1879 he removed to the place which he now occupies, but after residing there four years returned to Delmar, where he owned the city scales and engaged in the coal business for the same length of time. Since then he has resided upon his farm, which is well-improved place of one hundred and twenty-five cares on section eighteen, Bloomfield township; in fact, is one of the best and most desirable farms of its size in the township: The building he has erected thereon adds greatly to the value and attractive appearance of the place. He gives considerable attention to stock raising, making a specialty of Poland-China and Chester White hogs and a high grade of shorthorn and polled Angus cattle. He is one of the most energetic and successful farmers of the community.

At Delmar on the 10th of June, 1875, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage with Miss Paulina C. Clark, who was born in Jackson county, Iowa, April 10, 1848. Her ancestors came originally from Ireland, and on the paternal side she had uncles in the Revolutionary war. At an early day one of her uncles was a prominent lumber dealer on Clark street, Chicago, which street was named in his honor. Another uncle was a resident of New York and an importer of tea and coffee from China, and was also owner and commander of a vessel, and at the time of the breaking out of the Civil war was in China, and was compelled to sell out. Her father, Truman Clark, was born in Ticonderoga county, New York, and was there married, August 14, 1834, to Axie Potter a native of new Salem, Vermont. He was a captain of a vessel on the Great Lakes until 1844, when he came to Iowa and settled near Maquoketa, Jackson county, where he entered a claim of one hundred and twenty-five acres, on which he lived until 1873, when he retired form active business life. He died March 20, 1889, his wife January 13, 1899, and both were buried in the Union cemetery. After her husband’s death Mrs. Clark lived with our subject. In their family were five children, namely: Matilda married David Stockbarger, of Jackson county, and both are now deceased. Mariette died at the age of fourteen years. George, who served through the Civil war as a member of Company I, Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, married Helen Germond, now a resident of Delmar, and he died in 1895. Byron, who was in the one-hundred-day service as a member of the Twenty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry, married first Emma Reiburn, at Fairbury, Jefferson county, Nebraska, and since her death, which occurred in 1896, he has married Ella Dye. He was formerly a turnkey in the state penitentiary of Nebraska, but is now a grain dealer of Daykin, Jefferson county. Paulina is the wife of our subject. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have three children, all born in Delmar: Dora B., March 9, 1876; Martha M., February 16, 1878; and Nellie M., April 14, 1879. On June 10, 1901, she was united in marriage with Peter Getz, a native of North Lawrence, Ohio, and is now engaged in farming in Bloomfield township. Dora was formerly a teacher in the public schools.

Mr. Taylor and his family are members of the Methodist church of Delmar, and he is a member of Monitor Lodge, No. 220, A. F. & A. M., being the first candidate initiated into that lodge. Politically he is a stanch Republican, but cares nothing for official honors, though he served as city marshal and street commissioner while a resident of Delmar. He is one of the leading and representative citizens of his community, and is a man highly respected and esteemed by all who know him.