Leon Reporter, Leon, Iowa
Thursday, January 26, l905

LEVI TAYLOR, an old time jeweler of Osceola, died Wednesday while playing chess. He had been seated at the board about two hours playing with I.A. Touet, when his head fell forward and he died in about five minutes. MR. TAYLOR had more than local reputation as a jeweler and machinist. In the early 70s he followed his trade in Indianola and there made the smallest engine in the world. It sat on a 25 cent gold piece and was exhibited at the world's fair in Philadelphia in l876. He had patented a gas machine and various inventions, but worked steadily at the jeweler trade at Indianola and in Osceola the greater part of his life. MR. TAYLOR was a man of high integrity, a member of the K. of P. and G.A.R. lodges and leaves a bereaved wife, two sons and two daughters.

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