Biographies For Muscatine County Iowa 1889

Source: Portrait and Biographical Album, Muscatine County, Iowa, 1889, page 565
ENOCH TAYLOR, a representative farmer and stock-raiser, residing on section 34, Cedar Township, is a native of the Buckeye State, born Jan. 10, 1850. His parents, Abraham and Elizabeth (Foraker) Taylor, where natives of Delaware, in which State his paternal and maternal grandparents were also born. He was one of a family of seven children: John, the eldest, is now living in Illinois; Ella, widow of Anthony Ridley, is a resident of Ohio; Warren is living in the same State; Abraham died in Missouri, in 1884; Margaret departed this life in Ohio, in 1883, leaving a husband and eight children to mourn her loss; Mary wedded Ulysses Caldwell, a resident of Ohio.

The education of our subject was received in his native State, and there the days of his boyhood and youth were passed. He resided on the home-farm with his parents until attaining his majority, when his father removed elsewhere, and he continued the cultivation of the farm for nine years. In the month of August, 1859, he was united in marriage with Miss Nettie Storm, a daughter of Jacob and Hannah (Jones) Storm, and by their union one child was born, Cordelia, who is now the wife of Elmer Shellabarger, a resident farmer of Muscatine County.

The young couple began their domestic life upon the old homestead in Ohio, where seven happy years were passed, when, in 1866, they emigrated to Muscatine County, where Mr. Taylor rented the farm of Isaac Epperly for a year, after which he purchased eighty acres of land on section 34, which constituted one of the earliest improved farms in the county. Many improvements he has since made until the farm is now one of the best in the county, while the barns and outbuildings are models of convenience. Beside carrying on general farming, he pays some attention to stock-raising, and annually ships from twenty to forty head of hogs. Socially, Mr. Taylor belongs to the Masonic fraternity, and is a Master Mason, while politically, he casts his ballot with the Democratic party. He is highly respected by all who know him, and has the entire confidence of all with whom business or social relations have brought him in contact.

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