BORN: 1856
BORN IN: Ohio
DIED: 5/28/1885
AGED: 29
CAUSE OF DEATH: congestion of lungs
DEATH LOCATION: Woodside
OCCUPATION: Farmer
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BURIED IN UNION CEMETERY WITH THE SAME LAST NAME:
- Taylor, Charles E
- Taylor, Evalyn M
- Taylor, Infant
- Taylor, John
- Taylor, Louise
- Taylor, Lydia
- Taylor, Mary Louisa
- Taylor, Robert
- Taylor, Twins
- Taylor, W
BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT G94:
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
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From the public domain book:
History of San Mateo County, California
, published in 1883
Thomas Taylor is one of the promising young men of this county, and
one who through life has had to work his way to the position he holds in the
society of honorable men. By dint of perseverance, integrity and honesty, he
has achieved an enviable reputation as an upright citizen . He has gained all
that he possesses by manly toil, and is now the owner of a farm a short distance
from Woodside.
He was born in Huron county, Ohio, August 15, 1856. Here he
was reared until fifteen years old, when he emigrated to Noble county, Indiana.
After a residence of two years in this state, he returned to Ohio, and then
came to California, arriving in November, 1875. He came at once to this
county, working on a ranch in the mountains. He afterwards located at Pescadero
and San Gregorio, and was then employed in a sawmill in the Santa Cruz
mountains, returning to San Gregorio, and there settled on his present ranch
near Woodside.
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