Taylor, Nelson A. (1832-1907)

TAYLOR

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 1/22/2009 at 16:25:25

Nelson A. Taylor
Mar 13, 1832 - Mar 24, 1907

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.57, Council Bluffs)
N. A. Taylor, grocer, Council Bluffs, was born in Vermont in 1832. He entered upon the study of law in Orange County, Vt., and in 1857 was admitted in all the courts of that State. He practiced law until 1862, when he enlisted in the Thirteenth Vermont Volunteers and served one year, holding the position of Quartermaster. He was married in Vermont in 1860, and has one child - Gertie, aged fifteen years. Mr. Taylor came to Council Bluffs in 1876, and engaged as Steward at the deaf and dumb institution in that city. He opened his present grocery store in September, 1879, and is doing a rapidly increasing business, his annual sales amounting to about $25,000; he employs two men.