Indiana and Indianans - a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood (1919) (14764086085)

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Title: Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Dunn, Jacob Piatt, 1855-1924 Kemper, General William Harrison, 1839-
Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Chicago and New York : The American historical society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center



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ng-ton is a republican and was elected un-animously Grand Knight of the Knightsof Columbus, and had charge of all theirwar work drives in Richmond. He is amember of the Commercial Club, theBenevolent and Protective Order of Elks,is a member of the National Association ofWholesale Saddlery Dealers, and a mem-ber of St. Marys Church. Capt. Silas E. Taylor, who was a cap-tain of engineers in the Civil war, earningpromotion from the ranks to a captaincy,has been a resident of LaPorte for overhalf a century, and for many years washead of one of the largest printing concernsof that city. He learned the printing tradewhen a boy and followed it steadily withthe exception of the Civil war period untilhe retired quite recently. Captain Taylor was born at Bath inSteuben County, New York, July 16, 1837.His great-grandfather, Nathan Taylor, wasa native of Connecticut and served in thewar of the Revolution. After that war hebecame a pioneer settler in WashingtonCounty, New York. John Taylor, grand-
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INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1639 father of Captain Taylor, was born inWashington County, New York, learnedthe trade of millwright, and establishedone of the early homes in Steuben County,traveling from Washington to SteubenCounty with wagon and team. He boughta tract of timber land at $1 an acre, sup-plied his family and home with the necessi-ties of life by working at his trade, andalso superintended the management of thefarm, where he lived until his death, whenupwards of ninety years of age. He mar-ried Miss Baker. Daniel Bacon Taylor, father of CaptainTaylor, was born at Fort Ann in Washing-ton County, New York, in 1805. He alsolearned the trade of millwright, and fol-lowed it all his active career in New YorkState. He married Dorcas Cothrell, a life-long resident of New York State. Captain Taylor is the only survivingchild of the seven born to his parents. Atthe age of fourteen, having had some for-mal instruction in the schools of that time,he began learning the printers trade inthe o