William Taylor (b. 1832)

TAYLOR, WALKER

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 7/5/2003 at 14:01:52

Taylor, William, farmer and stock raiser, Section 4 (Harlan township); PO Fayette; born in Brown Co., Ohio, Aug. 22, 1832. Married Harriet Walker, who was born May 1, 1837, in Elkhart Co., Indiana, on the 10th of June, 1856, in LaGrange Co., Indiana. Came to this county Sept. 29, 1857. A Republican. Mr. T. has held the office of County Supervisor. Mr. Taylor's farm, at the time of his settling on it, was a wild and unbroken tract of land, a fact which the stranger, in going over the handsomely improved premises of today, would hardly imagine; it is known as the Fairview Farm. As an evidence that Mr. T. and his intelligent wife are not only interested in affairs which are local in their nature, but national as well, it may be stated that they are to be numbered among those who visited the Centennial Anniversary at Philadelphia; going by way of Washington, they stopped at Niagara Falls on the return; they recount many interesting reminisences of the trip, which occupied about two weeks for its completion. Mr. T and wife are members of the M. E. Church. Have had three children --- Ida, born June 7, 1857; Libby, born Dec. 7, 1862; Orra, born Nov. 26, 1868.

Page 600, "1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa"