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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    GEORGE WASHINGTON TAYLOR, Attorney-at-law and Solicitor of the First
Judicial Circuit, was born January 10, 1849, at Montgomery, and is a son of
Edward F. and Anne S. (Trezevant) Taylor, both natives of Columbia. S. C. After
his father came to Alabama he was engaged in planting: and at the time of his
death he was a Confederate soldier, and died at Montgomery, November 4, 1862.

    Our subject was educated at the University of South Carolina, situated at
Columbia, which has been a seat of culture and refinement for many years. He was
graduated from this institution in June, 1867. Going back somewhat, we find that
in November, 1864, he entered the army as a private in Company D. of the First
Regiment of South Carolina Cavalry, and served in the capacity of courier till
April, 1865, when the war closed.

    Immediately after his graduation, as already noted, we find our subject
engaged in teaching in Mobile, Ala., which he continued four years, and, having
read law in the meantime, he was admitted to the bar in 18_l. In the following
year he located in Choctaw County, for the practice of his profession. He was a
member of the Alabama Legislature from Choctaw during the session of 1878-79,
and served on a special committee and was a member of the Judiciary Committee of
the House.

    In November, 1880, he was elected Solicitor of the First Judicial Circuit,
and having come to Demopolis in January, 1883, to live, he was reelected from
there to the same position in 1886. It needs no assurance on our part to satisfy
our readers that Mr. Taylor has been eminently successful as a lawyer. If the
tree is known by its fruit then, indeed, can we know by the results of his
life's work thus far: and should we base the outcome of the future on the past
and present, we can say that his life will present a well-rounded and well-won
series of events achieved in a useful and noble calling.

    Mr. Taylor was married January, 1881, to Miss Margaretta V. T., daughter of
E. H. and Mary J. Metcalf, of Montgomery. Their family consists of four
children: Mary, Maggie M., Edward and Lucy C.

    Mr. Taylor is a member of the Masonic fraternity of the Knights of Pythias
and of the Episcopal Church.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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