Abner Taylor

As printed in 1881

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.

J. W. VAUGHAN; P.O. Marlborough; was born on the farm June 19, 1831, on which he now resides. His jjarents were David and Elizabeth (Siiellenberger) Vaughan, and his grandfather was Edward Vaughan. His great-grandfather Vaughan was a native of Scotland, and came to the United States previous to the Revolutionary War. David Vaughan was a native of Su>>sex Co., New Jersey, his birth occurring January 1, 1794. His father dying when he was a child, he was reared among strangers in Sussex Co., with whom he learned the carpenter and joiners' trade. Being a man of enterprise he came west to Steubenville, Ohio, about 1818, for the purpose of bettering his condition financially. He remained at this point six years, drawing and teaming. Six months previous to his settlement in Stark Co., he started for Michigan, but meeting relatives here, he was induced to purchase property and make this his future above. In 1825 he moved his family to the place he had selected on Sec. 30, Marlborough Tp. He settled here in the woods, and after living to see the wilderness in which he had located become a glorious country for enlightened people to live in, he died, that event occurring Aug. 30, 1867. He started in life a poor boy, with honesty for his motto. He nobly lived up to this maxim, and, after undergoing many hard knocks,, died, leaving property to the value of $10,000. His wife died about 1854. They were parents of fourteen children, ten of whom lived to maturity. These ten were — Edward, Mary, Catharine, Milly A., Hannah, Jacob, Joseph W., David L., Sarah and Naomia. Of these only the last six named are living, and all reside in Stark Co. Joseph W. Vaughan, the subject of this biography, lived at home untd eighteen years old, when he began going abroad to school, and teaching during vacations to obtain means to go to school. He attended the academy at Marlborough, the Mt. Union College and Oberlin College, at different times, obtaining a good education. He has taught school to a considerable extent, and has l)een principal of the schools of Navarre and Louisville, in Stark Co., and also had charge of the Normal School at Johnstown, Licking Co. Besides being a most successful teacher, Mr. Vaughan has practiced law to a considerable extent in the county. He was married Oct. 7, 1854, to Miss Mary L. Lyons, of Tuscarawas Tp., and by her had a family of four —

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As printed in History of Stark County, with an outline sketch of Ohio (1881). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.