"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP AND MARTINSVILLE, MORGAN COUNTY, INDIANA
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WILLIAM B. TAYLOR was born in Lawrence County, Ind., September 15, 1819.
His parents, Joshua and Mary (Armstrong) Taylor, natives of Virginia and
Kentucky respectively, came to Indiana in 1809, and settled on a farm in
Washington County, where they remained for eight years, removing thence to
Lawrence County. In February, 1821, they came to Morgan County, locating on
a farm one mile from Martinsville. In 1834, the mother died, and ten years
later the father, with is children, moved to Green Township, where he died
in June, 1855. William B. Taylor is the fourth son and seventh child in a
family of eleven children reared in Morgan County, and when fifteen years of
age he began learning the blacksmith trade. After one year at this, he
worked for the neighboring farmers until 1839. He then worked on a
flat-boat between New Orleans and Martinsville for Mitchell Bros. until
1842. For some time he worked in lead mines in Wisconsin, and in August,
1845, he was married to Jane Estlinger, a native of Washington County, Ind.
They have two children--Mary A. and Sarah A. His wife died in November,
1854, and one year later he was married to Caroline Hough. By this union
there is one child, Lillie. After his first marriage, he farmed near
Martinsville, in Washington Township, for nine years, and then sold his farm
and purchased another one in Green Township. Here he farmed for thirteen
years. In 1869, he began trading in stock, and at present resides in
Martinsville, engaged in the same way. Mr. Taylor is an active member of
the Republican party. He was County Commissioner for two years, re-elected,
and served six years longer. He was Township Trustee for two years. He
filled the unexpired term of office for Mr. Perham (deceased) in 1861, and
was again elected in 1862 and l863, and again in 1866. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor
are members of the Cumberland Church.
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