Our subject passed his life from the age of ten until maturity in Iowa upon the farm, remaining with his mother two years after the death of his father. After 1857 he farmed ten years in Franklin County, Kas., and then located upon his present farm nine miles east of Huntsville, where he has a farm of 135 acres, forty-two being in orchard. He is an extensive fruit grower, and possesses over 4,100 fruit trees, raising some of the finest fruit in this region.

In 1858 he married Isabella KAY, a native of Preston, Lancashire, England, who was born in 1839, and was brought to America at the age of five years by her parents. Her youth was principally spent in Providence, R.I., and Wisconsin. Mrs. Taylor is the mother of the following children: Eliza J. (deceased), Tarpley (now in Mexico), Lydia E. (deceased), John, Charles H., Joseph W. and Amanda (twins), Dick, Francis and an infant deceased.