BIOGRAPHIES
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Wayne Co., Ohio
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1910
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CHARLES E. TAYLOR.
The
Taylor family has been an honored and influential one in
Wayne county since the early days, and they have been faithful in
the performance of their duty in all the relations of life.
One of the best known of the present generation of Taylors is
Charles E., who was born in Franklin township, this county,
in 1867, the son of Thomas and Elvina (Batdorff) Taylor, the
former a native of Bristol, England, and the latter born in
Pennsylvania, The paternal grandparents of Charles E. Taylor
were James and Mary Taylor, who, in an early day, came to
Wooster township and settled near Munson school house. He was
a mason by trade and he built many lime kilns and spent the
remainder of his life in that vicinity. The maternal
grandparents of the subject came from Pennsylvania about 1826 and
settled in Franklin township, Wayne county; there they followed
farming, owning one hundred and sixty acres of land, which they
cleared and developed, spending the remainder of their lives there.
Thomas Taylor, father of Charles E., was partly
educated in England,
but being only a young man when he arrived in Wayne county, Ohio, he
finished his schooling here. He learned the stonemason’s trade
before leaving
England, and this trade he followed for some time after coming to
America, building much stone fence before leaving his native land;
however,
he devoted his attention principally to farming after coming to
Ohio. He
proved his loyalty to his adopted country by enlisting as a soldier
in the
Mexican war. He was also one of the brave men who made the perilous
trip to the gold fields of California in 1849. Upon his return to
Ohio he
built the first bridge north of Holmesville, but from that time on
gave his
attention exclusively to farming in Franklin township, Wayne
county. He
prospered, owning eventually two hundred acres, eighty acres in
Clinton
and Franklin townships and eighty acres in Holmes county. He was an
extensive
hog raiser, having been considered the banner hog man of Franklin
township up to 1880. He lived a quiet life, though he accepted some
of the
minor township offices. His family consisted of eight children,
namely: Ellen, Catherine, James, Elizabeth,
Louis, Charles E., Emma and
Thomas.
Charles E. Taylor, of this review, was educated in the
home schools
and the Shreve high school, graduating with the class of 1889, and
he then
entered the University of Wooster, where he made a splendid record,
taking
the classical course up to the junior year. He then taught school
eight
terms, two terms in Clinton township, three terms in Franklin
township, and
three terms in the grammar department of the Shreve high school. He
was
making rapid headway as one of the leading educators in the common
schools
of the county, and his services were in great demand, but not
finding the
school room altogether to his liking, he launched in the warehouse
business
at Funk, where he has been engaged ever since, having built up au
extensive
business. He is also interested in agricultural pursuits, and
is regarded as one of the leading business men of this community.
Mr. Taylor was married in 1896 to
Effie M. Orr, the refined daughter of a well-known family here,
and this union has resulted in the birth of the following children:
Jessie, Edna and Charles.
Mr. Taylor is a member of the Methodist
Episcopal church, and he is a democrat in national politics.
Source: History of Wayne Co., Ohio
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JAMES B. TAYLOR.
A man who stands admittedly among the leaders of the legal
profession in the northern part of the Buckeye state, where he has
long been practicing in all the courts, often handling many of the
most important cases on the various dockets, is Capt. James B.
Taylor, of Wooster, Wayne county. Being courteous, well
informed and enterprising. he is recognized as one of the
representative men of a community widely noted for the high order of
its citizenship, and in his life record is much that should be an
incentive to the youth standing at the parting of the ways, whose
destinies are matters for future years to determine, to have higher
ambitions and accomplish more for their fellow men, for his life has
always been led along a plane of high endeavor, always consistent
with the truth in its higher forms and ever in keeping with
honorable principles, while at the same time he has been eminently
successful in his chosen profession. He is the scion of
pioneer ancestors of the most sterling qualities who did much in
their day for the communities in which they lived, and the Captain
is a worthy descendant of his forbears, thus for many reasons, not
the least of which is the fact that he was one of the patriotic sons
of the North. who. when the tocsin of war sounded, left his
comfortable hearthstone and his business affairs to do, what he
could toward saving the national union from disruption and dishonor,
he is accorded conspicuous mention in this work, along with other
worthy citizens of Wayne county. whose lives have been directed
along proper channels.
James B. Taylor was born Aug. 24, 1840. at
Fredericksburg, Ohio, and his useful life has been spent within the
borders of his native county of Wayne, for the most part, for he
believed that greater opportunities existed for him right here at
home rather than in some remote locality, and, judging from the
eminent success he has achieved and the good he has clone the people
of this community, he was wise in coming to such a conclusion.
He is the son of James and Elisabeth (Curtis) Taylor, both
natives of Virginia, each representing a fine old Southern family,
the mother being of original Quaker stock.
James B. Taylor was the youngest member of a
family of nine children, and his boyhood was spent in the quiet.
sequestered village of his birth, in much the same manner as other
youths of his station in life and environments. He started to
the common schools early and made rapid progress, for at the age of
sixteen he was a teacher in the public schools. It being
necessary for him to map out his career and “work out his own
salvation” practically unaided, he taught during the winter months
and attended school through the summer and made general preparation
for a higher life work. For a time the intervals between his
teaching periods were profitably employed as a student at the
Fredericksburg Academy; later he entered the junior class at
Westminster College, Pennsylvania, from which institution he was
graduated in June, 1861, having made a splendid record there.
In the ensuing autumn he did a very commendable work by organizing
and opening Smithville Academy,
in the superintendency and control of which he remained for one
year, when, notwithstanding the flattering outlook for the
institution, Mr. Taylor decided to cast his lot with
the Federal troops, the rebellion then being in full blast. He
surrendered the control of the academy to Prof. John B. Eberly,
who for many years conducted it with remarkable success, the
foundation having been securely and broadly laid by Mr.
Taylor. He entered the service as second lieutenant, Aug.
15, 1862, in the One Hundred and Twentieth Regiment Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, and, having proved to be a most capable and gallant
soldier, he was promoted to first lieutenant. Feb. 13, 1863,
later, on March 23d, following, to captain of Company H. and by
reason of the consolidation of this regiment with the One Hundred
and Fourteenth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, he was mustered out Nov. 27,
1864. The first regiment he was in bore a meritorious and
conspicuous part in the campaign of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries, and Captain Taylor shared in its
vicissitudes and conflicts. In the swamps of Chickasaw Bayou,
at Arkansas Post, at Thompson's Hill, under Grant at the siege of
Vicksburg, at Big Black river, at Jackson, under Banks on the Red
river, he bravely led his command, and with an army of invincible
soldiers he united with them in the triumphant victories of long and
arduous campaigns.
Returning to civil life, Captain Taylor
took up the study of medicine in the spring of 1865, in
Fredericksburg, with Doctor Martin, and toward the
close of that year went to the University of Michigan as a student
of medicine, but soon thereafter abandoned the same, believing that
the law held greater opportunities for one of his tastes. He
made rapid strides in this department and was graduated in the
spring of 1867 in the la\v department of the University of Michigan.
He returned to Wayne county and opened an office at Orrville, where
he soon had a satisfactory practice which has continued to grow
until he has long since been rated among the leading members of the
Wayne county bar. Believing that the city of Wooster held
greater advantages for himself and family, he moved here in April,
1882, formed a law partnership with ex-Probate Judge
Isaac Johnson in 1888, which continued until the
tragic death of the latter.
Captain Taylor has prospered by reason of
his close application to business, and he had one of the most
attractive homes in the city, located amid beautiful surroundings on
North Market street, modern, of attractive architecture, located in
the midst of fine lawns, through which wind -inviting walks,
overarched by splendid trees and shrubbery. On Christmas eve
of 1906, a year after the death of his wife, he transferred his
beautiful home to a city hospital, and it yet continues as a
hospital, and ought to be a monument to his generosity and the
thoughtfulness of his wife, who in health had planned for just such
a use of the property.
Captain Taylor's wife was Emilie
Emmett, the daughter of John and Eliza
Emmett, and whose grandfather laid out the town of Emmettsburg,
Pennsylvania. Prior to their marriage Mrs. Taylor
was the principal of the schools at Fredericksburg, Ohio. To
them were born six children, three of whom survive. Harry
E. Taylor, manager of a manufacturing establishment at Orrville.
Rob C. Taylor, a law partner, and Josephine, now
the wife of Rev. Fred Slagle, who are spending
a year in Scotland. Captain Taylor is a member
of the Presbyterian church at Wooster, a Mason, a member of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and of the Royal Arcanum.
The Captain is a practitioner of an earnest,
cultivated, enlightened and inquiring mind. His leisure hours
are employed among his books and legal authorities. He permits
no shrinkage in his hours of study and work, for he believes in
labor, that there is true dignity in it, and he is well versed in
all the intricate recesses of the law, and in the court room he is
at once genteel, alert, keen, discriminating, analytical, logical
and often eloquent, never failing to deeply impress his jury.
He is a vigorous as well as an independent thinker and he always has
the courage of his convictions. He is essentially cosmopolitan
in his ideas, a man of the people in all the term implies and in the
best sense of the word a representative type of that strong American
manhood, which commands and retains respect by reason of inherent
merit, sound sense
and correct conduct. He has so impressed his individuality
upon his community as to win the confidence and esteem of his fellow
citizens, who regard his career as eminently honorable and useful in
all its phases, for it has been a strenuous one and of a character
to benefit others, and, measured by the accepted standards of
excellence, his life has been fraught with great good to those with
whom he has come into contact.
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KAISER W. TAYLOR.
The gentleman whose name heads this review is one of the honored
citizens of Wayne county, having the prestige both of honored
ancestry and of a personal record that commends him to all who know
him. In the private affairs of life his course has been
characterized by the strictest integrity and his service in the
Spanish-American war was of such a character as to win for him the
highest regard of his superior officers and his citizen friends at
home.
Kaiser W. Taylor was born on a farm near West
Salem, Congress township, Wayne county, Ohio, on the 12th of March,
1875, and is the son of William B. and Jane (Kaiser) Taylor.
The father was born Aug. 19, 1849, Canaan township, Wayne county,
and the mother on Nov. 18,
1849, in Congress township, this county. They were married
Dec. 7, 1871, and started their wedded life on a farm of sixty acres
in Canaan township. They were prospered and eventually moved
to Congress township, where Mr. Taylor now owns a
splendid farm of two hundred and seventy-two acres. In 1899 he
retired from active agricultural pursuits and retired to the town of
West Salem, where he erected one of the finest residences in that
town, together with a large and well-arranged barn. He is a
Republican in politics and has served seven years as township
trustee. He and his wife are faithful members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, to which they give a liberal support. They
are the parents of four children, namely: Kaiser W., the
subject of this sketch; Mrs. Nellie M. Curtice, deceased;
Mrs. Norah A. Schreffler, deceased, and Clyde E., who is
a clerk with Freidlander & Company, of Wooster.
The subject’s paternal great-grandfather, John
Taylor, was a native of Crawford county, Pennsylvania, and
was one of the early settlers of Wayne county, Ohio. He lived
to the remarkable age of ninety-four years. The paternal
grandparents were Joseph and Lucinda (Hartman) Taylor.
Joseph Taylor was born in Canaan township, Wayne county, in
1814 and died May 18, 1870, at the age of fifty-six years. His
wife Lucinda was born at Troy, Ashland county, and was the
daughter of Jacob Hartman, an early settler of that
section. The subject's maternal grandfather was William
Kaiser, who was born in 1804, and was an early settler of
Congress township, to which he came in 1822.
Kaiser W. Taylor secured his elementary
education in the district schools of Congress township, in which he
made such progress that at the early age of twelve years he was able
to enter the West Salem high school, where he graduated in 1893.
He then entered the Ohio Normal University at Ada, where he
graduated in 1896, with special honors. He there took a
commercial course and specialized in civil engineering, with the
intention of making that his life work. His plans were rudely
interrupted, however, by the outbreak of the war with Spain. Mr.
Taylor had joined the Ohio National Guard on Jan. 15, 1897,
becoming a member of Company C, Eighth Regiment. On the 8th of
the following February he was made a sergeant. On Apr. 26,
1898, the Eighth Regiment entered the United States service, and on
May 9th the subject was commissioned as first lieutenant of his
company. He went to Cuba with his command and participated in
the Santiago campaign, including the siege and surrender of that
stronghold. Company C was armed with black powder rifles and
consequently he was detailed on the outpost guard. He was
later detailed for detached duty in connection with the transfer of
commissary stores at Siboney. Because of the lack of proper
food and continued exposure, Lieutenant Taylor was
taken ill and on Aug. 26, 1898, he was taken to the army hospital at
Montauk Point. From there he was transferred on September 8th
to the Long Island College Hospital and was discharged from that
institution on Dec. 1, 1898. The Eighth Regiment was
discharged from the service on November 21st, but because of his
illness Lieutenant Taylor was not mustered out until
Jan. 6, 1899, at which time he was placed on the pension list.
He served his country honorably and faithfully and is still feeling
the ill effects of his exposure and hard service.
After his return from military service, the subject was
incapacitated for work for three or four years, but finally decided
that relief might be obtained through out-door life, and to this end
he obtained a position in the rural mail service, in which he is
still engaged. His health is making rapid improvement and
Mr. Taylor expects to eventually resign this service and
again take up his chosen profession, that of civil engineering.
Prior to the Spanish war Mr. Taylor had done some
successful work in the engineering line involving a two years tour
of the North American continent, at that time visiting every
territory and many provinces in the Dominion of Canada, over
one-half of the states, many places of interest and importance in
the republic of Mexico, and a considerable number of the islands of
the Pacific.
Politically Mr. Taylor is a stanch
Republican and in 1908 was the candidate of his party for the
position of auditor of Wayne county, but the Democratic majority in
this county precluded his election. His religious sympathies
are with the Methodist Episcopal church at West Salem.
Socially he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and
because of his military service he is affiliated with the Military
Order of Foreign Wars, the Naval and Military Orders of the
Spanish-American War, the United Spanish War Veterans, the Society
of the Army of Santiago, and the Military 0Order of the Serpent.
As reflecting the standing of the subject in his home
community, no better reference could be made than to the words of a
local publication in reference to him: “He is a business college
graduate and expert accountant and has been very successful in
administering his own as well as the business affairs of others to
which he has so frequently been entrusted. * * * Lieutenant
Taylor is possessed of a genial personality, kindly in manner
and uniformly courteous. By reason of these attributes he has
won his way into the hearts of the people to such an extent that his
nomination came to him unsolicited and without his knowledge of this
intention of his friends and supporters. * * * As a soldier and
citizen he has brought credit to the county from which he enlisted
and will grace any position with honor to those who make that
position possible.’’
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J. H. TODD, M.D.
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