Crawford Co., AR - Biographies - William Logan Taylor

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William Logan Taylor was born in DeKalb County, Tenn., in 1839, and is 
the son of William Walton Taylor and Ann Pratt Taylor. The father was 
the son of Joseph Taylor, and was of Welsh and Irish descent, born in 
Georgia in 1793; the mother was born in Alabama in 1797. Soon after 
their marriage, in Alabama, the parents removed to Tennessee, where 
they remained until 1840, when they removed to Ste. Genevieve County, 
Mo., living there until 1853. Then they went to Grayson County, Tex., 
where the father died in 1858; the mother died in Benton County, Ark., 
in 1877. William L. is the youngest of twelve children, only four of 
whom are now living. He was educated at McKinzie College, at 
Clarksville, Tex., entering that institution in September, 1858, where 
he remained until 1862, except one year he was employed as principal 
teacher in Colbert Institute, Chickasaw Nation. From 1863 to 1866 he 
was principal of the schools at Whitesboro, Sherman and Gainsville, 
Tex. He was clerk of the district court of Grayson County, Tex., but 
resigned that office in October, 1868, and moved to Van Buren, Ark., 
where he has been in active business ever since, in the law and claim 
business, except six years of the time, when he was sheriff of 
Crawford County, elected as a Republican. He now devotes most of his 
time to his farming interest, although he does a selected law 
practice. Mr. Taylor was a Whig before the war, and since has been a 
Republican. In 1864 he married Priscilla Steurt Williams, by whom he 
has five children: Charles E., Clara, Alice, George W. and Steurt, all 
living. Mrs. Taylor is a native of Arkansas, a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, and devotes much of her time to church matters and 
attending the sick.