TAYLOR, Samuel W., M.D. - 1890 Bio (1818-1900)

TAYLOR, FANNER, TANNER, STURDEVANT, MCCOLOUGH, BREWER, MAKEPEACE, FAIRCHILDS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 8/30/2007 at 20:27:47

Portrait and Biographical Album of Jefferson and Van Buren Counties, Iowa, Printed 1890 by Lake City Publishing Co., Chicago
Page 659

S. W. TAYLOR, M.D., of Glasgow, Jefferson County, came to this place in 1855, is a native of Litchfield County, Conn., born in 1817 (sic - 1818), and is the fifth child of a family of six. His father was a native of Connecticut, and was a minister of the Presbyterian Church. In about 1828 the family removed to Portage County, Ohio, where the father died in 1863, in Fredonia. The mother of our subject survived him a few years and died in the same place.

Dr. TAYLOR received an academical (sic) education at Tallmadge, Summit County. When about eighteen years of age he removed to Kane County, Ill., where he worked on a farm and in a sawmill at Aurora for several years. When twenty-one years of age he married Miss Jane A. FANNER (sic - TANNER), of Kane County, Ill., by whom he had six children -- Frances, now Mrs. STURDEVANT, of Beaver County, Pa.; Alfred, who died in Paola, Kan., in 1887; Sarah, now Mrs. McCOLOUGH, of Bellville, Kan.; Elliot P., a hotel keeper of Glasgow; Adelaide, now Mrs. BREWER, of Marshall County, Kan.; Willie K., of Kearney, Neb. The mother of these children died in 1853, and about one year after Dr. TAYLOR married Miss Amy R. MAKEPEACE, of Jefferson County, N. Y. Two children were born of this union -- Fred M., of Batavia, Jefferson County; Annie P., now Mrs. FAIRCHILDS, of Henry County, Iowa.

When about thirty four years of age our subject began the study of medicine at Aurora, Ill., and in the winter of 1854-55 he attended a course of lectures at Keokuk. On his removal to this county he began the practice of medicine at Glasgow, where he has continued to reside engaged in active practice until the present time, with the exception of about fifteen months when he served as Assistant Surgeon of the Fourth Iowa Cavalry, his commission bearing date June 7, 1864. He was mustered out at Atlanta, Ga., in August, 1865. Politically, Dr. TAYLOR is an ardent Republican, with which party he has affiliated since its organization, previous to which he was a member of the Whig party. He is a member of Post No. 227, G. A. R., of Glasgow, and was active in securing the erection of the soldiers' monument at that place. He is a member of the Congregational Church, of which body his wife is also a member.

[Transcriber's note: The G.A.R. is the Grand Army of the Republic, the fore-runner of the American Legion.]

*Transcribed for genealogy purposes; I have no relation to the person(s) mentioned.