JONATHAN A. TAYLOR
Jonathan A. Taylor is a native of Clearfield county, Pennsylvania, born November 10, 1828. His father, John M. Taylor, emigrated to Iowa, and settled in Scott county, about 1854. He moved to Cedar county, where he died in January, 1873. His wife, Mary Taylor, died about six months earlier. Jonathan A., subject of this sketch, spent his early life in his native State, and at the age of twelve years, began to earn his own living. In 1854 he came west and spent a short time during the Border Ruffian war, then returned to Linn county, where his parents were living. One year later he went to Kansas and took up land and remained there two years. He then settled in Iowa. After spending one year in Davenport, he went to Cedar county and lived twelve years. March 16, 1874, he came to Atlantic, and became a resident of Cass county, purchasing land on section 17, Union township. His farm contains one hundred and twenty acres of land, a fine farm, upon which he has made all of the improvements. Mr. Taylor was married at Cedar Rapids, November 24, 1859, to May D. Cox, a daughter of Elijah and Jemima Cox, old settlers of Linn County. Mrs. Taylor was born March 16, 1841. They have had six children---William F., born in November, 1860, now living with his parents; Eva F., born in May, 1862, wife of A. O. Ludwig, of Union township; John W., born February 10, 1864, and died February 20, 1864; Lizzie, born in December, 1865, now the wife of Wallace Hardy, of Colfax county, Nebraska; Lydia A., born in May, 1869, and Alexander J., born in October, 1876.
Contributed by Lisa Varnes-Rex from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pp. 741.
