Dr. James Taylor and Mary Ann Mathews

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Husband Dr. James Taylor ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 9 Oct 1822 - Loyalhanna Twp, Westmoreland Co, PA 2
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           Died: 30 Apr 1902 4 5
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         Father: John Taylor (1791/1792-1853) 2 3 6 7
         Mother: Ellen Miller (1794-1879) 2 3 7 8

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   Other Spouse: Susan Mary Ogden (1825-1913) 3 4 9 - 10 Jan 1849 4 5

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Wife Mary Ann Mathews ¹⁰

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           Died: 1844 5
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         Father: Archibald Mathews (Abt 1784-1851) 11 12
         Mother: Elizabeth Findley (1784-Aft 1880) 5 13

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Children

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1 M [Infant] Taylor ⁵

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2 M John Taylor ⁵

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           Died: 23 Mar 1899 - Blairsville, Indiana Co, PA 5
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         Spouse: Eliza Bennett (      -      ) 5

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General Notes: Husband - Dr. James Taylor

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He received his early education in the subscription schools of that day; attended Blairsville Academy; was a teacher for two years; then began reading medicine with Dr. E. P. Emerson, of Blairsville. Three years later he entered Franklin Medical College, where he remained one year, then entered Jefferson Medical College, from which institution he was graduated. He located at West Fairfield, Westmoreland County, where he spent his life and where he was eminently successful in his profession. He was known as one who faithfully responded to every call at all hours and for all classes. He was kind to the poor and had charity for all and labored with love in his calling, until he died. Dr. Taylor was a Presbyterian and he knew why he was a Presbyterian, and was a ruling elder in Union church for more than half a century. He was greatly attached to the church and a close student of the Bible. He worshiped God with his heart and with his purse. At the reunion of the old and new schools of the Presbyterian church he was honored by being sent by his own presbytery as a commissioner to the general assembly. He was a Republican, and in 1860 and 1861 he represented Westmoreland and Indiana counties in the legislature of Pennsylvania, and won for himself an enviable record. Being a loyal and staunch friend of the common school system, and a lover of education, he served for twenty consecutive years as a school director. He was chiefly instrumental in establishing the Fairfield Academy which was so extensively patronized by the young people of Ligonier valley. During the war of the Rebellion, out of loyalty to the Union cause and sympathy for the dying soldiers, he went to the front without either pay or commission as an assistant to our army surgeons. While the smoke of the battles of Antietam, Bull Run, the Wilderness and Gettysburg was yet overhanging those bloody fields, he was on the scene to lend his help. These patriotic acts on his part show conclusively the quality of his heart and the degree of his sympathy, and as he lived, so he died. [HWC 1906 III, 173]

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 422, 438.

2 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Gresham & Co., 1890.), Pg 557.

3 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 172.

4 Jane Maria Craig, Samuel Craig, Senior, Pioneer to Western Pennsylvania, and His Descendants (Greensburg, PA: Privately printed, 1915), Pg 134.

5 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. III (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 173.

6 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 372, 437, 438.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 1230.

8 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 437, 438.

9 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 372, 438.

10 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 372, 422, 438.

11 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 365, 372, 421, 462.

12 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 776.

13 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 421, 462.