CHARLES BOARDMAN TAYLOR, PH. D.   One of the oldest and best known ministers and school men in southern Ohio is Charles Boardman Taylor.
     He has some notable ancestors.  His great-grandfather, Eliphalet Taylor, was a private in the Revolutionary army.  His grandfather, Theodore Taylor, volunteered in 1799 and joined the army collected under the venerable Washington for the defense of this country in the threatened war with France.  Doctor Taylor himself and his father, Rev. Warren Taylor, were both members of Ohio regiments in the Civil war.  thus few families have a record of more service in the wars of the nation.  Doctor Taylor's father was a member of Company E of the 140th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and served a hundred days and received an honorable discharge.  In 1862 Charles B. Taylor enlisted in Company G of the Eighty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and in 1863 was transferred to the First Ohio Heavy Artillery.  His service as a soldier continued from 1862 until after the close of the war in 1865.  Most of his service was in the mountain regions of West Virginia, East Tennessee and East Kentucky, in the zone between the major operations of the contending armies of the East and West.  Doctor Taylor is now a member of Sergeant Reed Post No. 253 of the Grand Army of the Republic, and is chaplain of the Post.
     Charles Boardman Taylor was born Feb. 6, 1846, a son of Reverend Warran and Margaret (Walton) Taylor.  Forty-six years ago he was ordained as a minister of the Presbyterian church.  Since then he has preached in Vinton and Athens counties, Ohio, and for upwards of half a century his work has been either as a minster or as a practical educator.  For two years he spent most of his time preaching to deaf mutes throughout the state.  As a churchman Doctor Taylor has officiated at 280 weddings, and about 1,300 funerals and has received into his church 640 persons.  It is said that he has married and buried more people in Vinton County than any other minister.  He founded and built the church at Guysville in Athens County, and assisted Rev. J. P. A. Dickey in reorganizing the church at McArthur twenty-five years ago, and since Mar. 1, 1895, his home and work have been identified with this town of Vinton County.  He has also filled pastorates at Deerfield, Guysville, Brownsville, Wilkesville and McArthur, filling the same pastorate at Wilkesville which had been honored by his father before him.  Doctor Taylor's son Warren L., has also preached in Wilkesville, so that members of three successive generations have filled that pulpit.
     He is president of the Vinton County Civic League, which is a local supplement to the Ohio anti-saloon organization.  He also served eight years as a member of the Board of School Examiners of Vinton County, but retired from that office in 1907.
     Doctor Taylor is the author of two school books:  Lessons in Psychology and Lessons in Law.  His father, Rev. Warren Taylor was born in New Hampshire Oct. 6, 1814.  The grandfather, Theodore Taylor, was a native of Rhode Island, but lived for many years in New Hampshire, and finally came out to Michigan, where he died at the age of sixty-three.  Warren Taylor grew up and was educated in the East, attended the Union College at Schenectady, New York, and later became a prominent educator and Presbyterian minister.  He was ordained at Warren in Trumbull County, Ohio, in 1844, and as a preacher and teacher he spent an active career of forty-six years.  He died in Ross County, Ohio, Apr. 21, 1890.  It was while filling the pastorate at Wilkesville in Vinton County that he established a private school known as the Wilkesville Normal Academy.  He was prominently known and esteemed over several counties of Ohio.  Rev. Warren Taylor was married Apr. 24, 1840, at Freehold, New Jersey, to Miss Margaret Walton.  She was born and reared in New Jersey and she died in the arms of her son, Doctor Taylor, at his home May 6, 1892.  She was born in 1820, and throughout her life was a devout Presbyterian.  She became the mother of four sons.  One of these, Rev. V. E. Taylor, who died at the home of his brother, Dr. Charles B., in 1912, was for thirty-four years an active minister of the Presbyterian Church and never married.  Rev. Park W. Taylor, another brother, is now a home missionary and serving in a jurisdiction on the west side of the Appalachian range of mountains in Tennessee, and is also unmarried.  B. G. Taylor, the other brother, is a carpenter by trade, lives in Dayton, Ohio, and is married and has a fmily of children.
     At Wilkesville, Ohio, Feb. 15, 1866, Dr. Charles B. Taylor married Miss Bettie Ruth Davis.  She was born near Wilkesville, but in Meigs County, Ohio, Jan. 28, 1848.  She was a student with her husband under the direction of Rev. Warren Taylor.  Her grandfather, John Davis, came from Eastern New York, and was a pioneer in the Wilkesville community of Ohio, having located there in 1818, and the land which he acquired from the Government and which was improved by his labors is still in the family, being owned by a great-grandson, John Williams.  Mrs. Taylor's father, Erastus Davis, was born in New York in 1815, and was two and a half years of age when the family located in Vinton County.  He grew to manhood in that locality, and subsequently became a flour and sawmill man.  He married Phoebe B. Brown of the old Brown family of Amesville, Ohio.  They lived happily together for more than forty years, and were active members of the Presbyterian Church at Wilkesville.
     To Dr. and Mrs. Taylor have been born the following children:  Phebe, wife of H. M. Lee of Bailey, Michigan, owner of a fine mill at that town, and they have five sons and one daughter, one son being in the United States Army, and one in the United States Navy; Cornelia V. is a missionary worker, and for the past three years has been located at Beaumont, Texas; Margaret W. is the wife of John McGathey, who is connected with the National Cash Register Company at Dayton, Ohio; Rev. Warren Lincoln Taylor is a Presbyterian home missionary and his work is on the east side of the Appalachian Mountains at Eskota, North Carolina, and is married and has one daughter; Adaline is the wife of Albert G. Poston, and they live at Pliny, West Virginia, and have a family of several children; Eunice L. is supervisor of primary teaching at Rio Grande College, Ohio; Rev. Arthur Hamilton Taylor is now finishing his course in the Lane Seminary at Cincinnati; Esther M. is a teacher in the public schools of Covington, Kentucky, where she has been located for the past three years; E. Scott, the youngest, is making his home at McArthur, where he is connected with a feed store, and he married Miss Norma Trainer of McArthur.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 803

EZRA Q. TIMMS.   For fully half a century Mr. Timms has been identified with the agricultural prosperity of Clinton Township in Vinton County.  He came to this locality soon after the close of the Civil war, in which he had made a gallant record as a soldier of the Union army.  His home and farm are located near Dundas Village.  His homestead comprises 137 acres, nearly all of it improved, and he formerly owned 150 acres more, which he gave to his sons.
     He comes of old Virginia stock and was born in Wirt County in that section of Virginia which is now the State of West Virginia, on Sept. 19, 1842.   Among his native hills he spent the years of his childhood and youth, trained himself as a farmer, and acquired a district school education.   He was nearly twenty years of age when he enlisted in the Eleventh West Virginia Infantry for service in the Union army.   This regiment was successively under the command of Colonel Rathbone, Daniel Frost, who was killed in battle, Col. Dan H. Bukey, who resigned, and finally under Col. James L. Simpson, who was a very brave and gallant soldier.  In the earlier part of its service this regiment was on special duty in guarding railroads and fighting the rebel raiders.  After about two years, when the country had been rid of this guerrilla warfare, the regiment went into the Shenandoah Valley and helped to win the hard-fought battles of Cedar Creek and Winchester.  The regiment was a part of the Eighth Army Corps under the command of the gallant Phil Sheridan, and Mr. Timms witnessed the dashing ride of that general in the Cedar Creek fight.  The regiment was afterwards in the charge on Petersburg, where it lost the greater part of its men in killed and wounded, and very few were fit for duty after the battle.  Mr. Timms was in the army nearly three years, and though he endured almost constant duty and much fighting he was never shot nor in the hospital a single day, and always ready for any duty to which he was assigned.  For some months he served as sergeant of his company.  On Sept. 2, 1862, at Spencer in Roane County, Virginia, he was captured, but after being held over night was paroled the next morning, since he was about to be retaken by his own men.  He received his honorable discharge on June 17, 1865
     In the fall of that year, after his return to his native county, his father sold their Virginia home and came to Vinton County, Ohio.  His father was Richard Timms, who bought 452 acres of land where the Village of Dundas now stands. Richard Timms died in October, 1875.  He was born in 1800 in Prince William County of old Virginia.  His wife, whose maiden name was Elizabeth Bibby, was born in Wood County, West Virginia, of German parentage, and died in March, 1876.
     Mr. Timms was still unmarried when he accompanied his parents to Vinton County, but after they were settled he returned to West Virginia and on Oct. 26, 1865, married Susan M. Barnett. She was born in Wood County, West Virginia, Nov. 28, 1845.  For more than half a century Mr. and Mrs. Timms have trodden together the way of life in harmonious companionship, and all that time they have occupied the homestead where they now live.  Mrs. Timms has been a splendid home maker and housekeeper, and has shared in the credit for the generous prosperity which has grown up under their united energy and management.  Mr. Timms is a very practical farmer and stock breeder and has always kept a large number of livestock, cattle, horses, and hogs, and poultry.  He does his stock feeding in the most efficient manner, and one feature of his farm is a thirty-ton silo.
     Mr. and Mrs. Timms have reared a family of eight children.  Any L. is the widow of Willis T. Salts, who was a general farmer, and she still occupies the old farm and is the mother of nine children.  Henry M. Timms is a practical farmer in Clinton Township of Vinton County, and is married and has one daughter.  James W. is also a farmer in the same township and has one daughter.  Anna L. is the wife of Samuel Russel of Clinton Township, and they have a daughter.  Charles V. is still unmarried and lives at home, and is a very practical fruit grower.  George B. is a railroad man at Freeport, Illinois, and is married and has one daughter.  Ida B., who died June 17, 1915, was the wife of Milton S. Cox, who is general yardmaster for the Santa Fe Railway at Los Angeles, California.  Geneva E. is the wife of Earl C. Bay, a farmer in Vinton County, and they have a son and two daughters.  Most of the family are members of the Christian Church.  Mr. Timms and his sons are republicans.
Source: A Standard History of The Hanging Rock Iron Region of Ohio, Vol. II - Illustrated - Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1916 - Page 1236