John Bell Taylor and Margaret Belle Johnston

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Husband John Bell Taylor ^{1 2}

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           Born: 20 Mar 1851 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 3
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         Father: Robert Cromwell Taylor (1822-1884) 1 4
         Mother: Sarah Jane Bell (      -      ) 1 3

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       Marriage: Nov 1875 3

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Wife Margaret Belle Johnston ^{1 5}

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           Born: 19 Jun 1851 6
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           Died: 13 Apr 1906 - Indiana, Indiana Co, PA 5
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         Father: Stephen Alexander Johnston (1820-1904) 7
         Mother: Mary Elizabeth Elliott (1830-1906) 6

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Children

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1 M Royden J. Taylor ³

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2 F Alice Taylor ³

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General Notes: Husband - John Bell Taylor

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He attended the public schools of Indiana, Pennsylvania, until he was sixteen years of age, when on the advice of his physician, on account of his health, he left school, as he then expected only for a time, until his health would improve. After clerking in the A. M. Stewart hardware store in Indiana for a time, his uncle, Alexander Elliott, a merchant of Armagh, Indiana County, asked him to come to Armagh and clerk in his store, and he accepted the position in September, 1867, remaining in that store until March, 1873, when he was elected to a position in the First National Bank of Indiana, Pennsylvania. Having accepted this position he returned to Indiana, and continued as an employee in the First National Rank until 1877, when he was elected teller in the recently organized Farmers' Bank of Indiana. He was afterward made assistant cashier, and on the death of his father, in 1884, was elected to succeed him as cashier, being connected with the bank in that capacity until 1904, when, with a fast growing business, the institution increased its capital from $100,000 to $225,000, and he was elected vice president. He also served as treasurer of the borough of Indiana for ten or twelve years, and was treasurer of the school board for a number of years.
Mr. Taylor was a man of rather quiet disposition, never seeking publicity. He was a member of the First United Presbyterian Church, and socially of the Cosmopolitan Club and the Two Lick Country Club, being one of the promoters of the latter, and having a cottage on the club grounds. He was interested in and fond of sports of many kinds, hunting, fishing, etc., and was always very fond of horses, the greater part of his life keeping one or two good saddle and driving horses. In politics he was a Republican, and with few exceptions voted the regular ticket.

1 —, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 336.

2 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 724.

3 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 728.

4 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 727.

5 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 647, 728.

6 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 647.

7 J. T. Stewart, Indiana County, Pennsylvania - Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1913), Pg 646, 728.