The Taylor Families of Stark County, Ohio

SAMUEL TAYLOR, stock-raiser and farmer; P. O. Canton; was born in Jefferson Co., Ohio, Jan. 9, 1815. The early years of his life were passed on the farm. He attended the common schools of his neighborhood, and acquired a good education; he lived with his parents until he was 25 years old, he then married, in March, 1840, Miss Elizabeth J. McCullough, who was a native of Jefferson Co. Soon after his marriage, he removed to Carroll Co., Ohio, and settled on a farm of 240 acres, which he inherited from his father's estate. He lived on the farm ten years; he then moved to Stark Co., settling in Canton Tp. on a farm of 255 acres, where he now lives. He now owns upward of 500 acres of well improved land. In 1874, he was one of the few men who organized the Farmers' Bank, of Canton; he is a stockholder and director. Mrs. Taylor died in 1867, and in 1868, he married, for his second wife, Mary C., the widow of Christian ( )3-er, of Canton. From that marriage there has been one child. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and Mrs. Taylor of the Baptist. William and voplua Taylor, the parents of our subject, were natives of Washington Co., Penn., and came to Ohio in 1812. They settled in Jefferson Co., on a farm where they lived 37 years,

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ABNER TAYLOR, New Baltimore; is a native of Crawford Co., Pa., and was born Oct. 39, 1818. He is a son of John and Mary (Kirk) Taylor, who were natives respectively of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and who were parents of a family of ten: Samuel, Aljigail, Joseph, Aaron, Judith, Amy, Sarah, Levi, John and Abner. Only three of these — Levi, Amy and Abner — are yet living. When the subject of this sketch was 8 years old, his father died, and two years later his mother and family came to Marlborough Tp., where relatives had preceded them. They located on Sec. 4 on the farm now owned by our subject, it being all woods then, with the exception of three acres. They here began pioneer life in earnest, gradually clearing ml improving the place as years passed by. The mother died May.3, 1849. Abner Taylor was reared principally in Marlborough Tp. In July, 1844, he married Christiann Werner, who bore him six children — Joseph, Eliza, Isadore, John, Wilson and Leora. Eliza is the only one dead. Joseph married Belle Rogers, and lives in Indiana; Isadore is the wife ef D. Austin, and resides in Marlborough Tp.; John married Maggie A. Bowman, and lives in New Baltimore; the other two are single. Mr. Taylor has always retained the old farm on which he still resides. Besides carrying on the farm, he formed a partnership with his son John in September, 1871, under the firm name of A. Taylor & Son, dealers in groceries, dry goods, &c., in New Baltimore. They carry one of the largest stocks of general goods of any house in the whole neighborhood. Mr. Taylor is a Republican in politics, and he and his wife are members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Taylors are old and honored citizens of Marlborough Tp.

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, farming; P. O. Justus; is a native of the Emerald Isle; born Jan. 1, 18K), in County Down; daughter of Robert and Jane (Mckinney) Pherson. The last named was a daughter of James and Margaret (Baily) McWhinney, of Scotch birth and parentage. To James and Margaret McWhinney were born: James, Frances, Robert, William, John, James, Nancy and Margaret (for father account of the Ph(;rson family, the reader is referred to the sketch of Robert Pherson). Mrs. Taylor was of a family of ten children, nine of whom grew up. Elizabeth, James, Theophilus,.Margaret, Mary, Esther E., John, Jane, Robert and Nancy, were the number born. Esther E., now Mrs. Taylor, emigrated with her parents to Portage Co. in.luly, ' 1824, where they remained until the year following, when they removed to Pittsburg Pa., where he purchased a farm and remained there eighteen years, when he moved to Butler Co., and tiled about the year 185'J; his wife died in Portage Co., Ohio. While in Pittsburg our subject was united by marriage to Thomas Harris, a commercial man; he died in October, 1839, while on a business trip in the South. By Mr. Harris she had one son, who died in his 13th year. Oct. 7, 1841, she was married to William Taylor, a native of Derry Co., Ireland, but raised in Scotland; emigrated to America in 1837, and settled in Steubenville; a spinner by trade. After marriage they came to Massillon, where they remained until 1853, when they returned to Pittsburg, returning again to this county in 1877. They have had five children, but two of whom are living — Robert C. and John H., who works with his father, who runs a factory at Louisville, this county, John H. being superintendent of the same. Robert C served all through the late war; is a private soldier and non-commissioned officer, being a member of Company C loth Pa. Reserves. He was taken prisoner, and was for a time in rebel prisons, Richmond and Belle Isle. He is now engaged in farming his mother's farm, consisting of 137 acres. Mrs. Taylor's parents were members of the Presbyterian Church. She is a member of the United Brethren.

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