CHRISTIAN A. TAYLOR
Arizona, the Youngest State, pg. 587

Christian A. Taylor, is at present an attache of the United 
States Senate, in the capacity of assistant superintendent of 
documents, which position he has occupied since April 5, 1913.  
He came west in 1881 and since that time has been closely 
identified with many phases of its development and progress. 
Its spirit of freedom and energy is embued in his character 
and influences to a grat extent his business affairs, which 
have been varied n their nature but all successful in their 
outcome and prominent factors in his present prosperity.  He 
has become one of the leading real estate dealers in Douglas 
and is also engaged in important development work, his name 
standing in that section of the state for progress, expansion 
and advancement.

Mr. Taylor was born in Wisconsin, February 28, 1855, a son of 
Allan and Wilhelmina (Pider) Taylor, the former a native of 
Ohio and the latter of Germany.  The mother passed away in 
1887 and the father, who is a retired architect, makes his 
home with the subject of this review, having reached the 
eighty-ninth year of his age.  In their family were five 
children: William, a resident of Lincoln, Nebraska; Chrisitan 
A; of this review; Charles of Tacoma, Washington; Arthur, 
also a resident of that city; and Alice, the deceased wife 
of John Van Deventer of Colorado.

Christian A. Taylor spent his childhood in various states, 
the family having made several removals during that period.  
At the age of sixteen years he began an independent career, 
teaching school in Iowa unitl he was twenty three, at which 
time he went to the Black HIlls of Dakota and prospected for 
three years, working also as assistant government surveyor. 
He next went to Chicago and after a short time came to 
Arizona, locating here in 1881. He traveled in various 
parts of the territory for three years and then went to 
Colorado, where he spent a short time in Durango.  From 
there he went to Azotea, New Mexico working as a foreman 
and shipping clerk for a large lumber company for a year 
and removing at the end of that time to Kansas where his 
marriage occurred.  

He afterward returned to Colorado and 
settled in Denver, where for sevreal years he was 
successful as a contractor and builder.  When he left 
Denver he went to Utah where he taught school for a time, 
going in 1898 to San Francisco.  There he obtained a 
position in the employ of the Union Iron Company but 
after a short time went to Oakland and thence to Los 
Angeles.  From the latter city he journeyed to Phoenix 
and then to Williams, Arizona where he worked as foreman 
and shipping clerk for a lumber compnay.  He was employed 
for a time by the Santa Fe Railroad Company but in 1902 
located in Douglas and turned his attention to contracting 
and building. He later abandoned that in favor of  real 
estate in whih=ch he is now engaged, having built up an 
extensive and profitable business. He handles a great deal 
of valuable property for himself and others and has been 
successful in his ventures because he possesses a 
comprehensive and exacting knowledge of land values.  
Mr. Taylor is interested in the exploitation of Sulphur 
Springs Valley, a fine farming section.  He also owns a 
fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres besides other 
business and residnce property in Douglas.

On February 14, 1888 Mr. Taylor married Miss Alice M. Taylor, 
a native of Illinois, and a daughter of William and Katherine 
(Douglas) Taylor.  They have two children, twins, Birdie Floye 
and Bertha, born August 30, 1889 in Denver.  The former is 
now studying law but the latter is deceased.

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