Butte County CA Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Edward G. 1818 - 
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Author: Fariss & Smith (1882)

    EDWARD G. TAYLOR.—E. G. Taylor was born in Leeds, York county, England,
August 12, 1818. When grown to manhood he went to Australia, and in 1848 was
married to Miss Amelia Teague, at the town of Adelaide, in. Australia. In
December, 1849, they started for California, arriving here in April, 1850. Mr.
Taylor conducted a hotel at Hamilton, and at the same time engaged in farming.
In 1855, his hotel was burned, and his oldest son met his death in the flames.
Mr. Taylor was also badly burned at the fire. Having settled on what was called
the Fernandez grant, he was dispossessed by the holders and left under protest.
He then purchased a farm nine miles west of Hamilton, and continued at farming
until 1874, when he sold out, moved to Gridley, and became proprietor and
manager of the Gridley hotel. Mr. Taylor died of typhoid-pneumonia, January 30,
1878, at sixty years of age, leaving a wife, four daughters and three sons.
Three children had died previously. The children were all born in Butte county,
with the exception of one, a daughter, who was born in Australia and died in
California in 1850. The second daughter, Amelia Ann, was married to William
Spence, October 18, 1868: the third daughter, Mary Frances, is now the wife of
Charles E. Gridley, son of the late George W. Gridley; Edward F. died in
September, 1880, leaving a wife, the daughter of N. Wilson, and one child.

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HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
IN TWO VOLUMES.

I.
HISTORY OF CALIFORNIA FROM 1513 TO 1850.
BY FRANK T. GILBERT.

The Great Fur Companies and their Trapping Expeditions to California.
Settlement of the Sacramento Valley. 
The Discovery of Gold in California.
BY HARRY L. WELLS.

II.
HISTORY OF BUTTE COUNTY,
From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. 
BY HARRY L. WELLS AND W. L. CHAMBERS.

BOTH VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED WITH VIEWS AND PORTRAITS.
HARRY L. WELLS,
517 CLAY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO
1882.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1882, by HARRY L. WELLS, in
the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

FRANCIS, VALENTINE & Co., Engravers & Printers
517 Clay St., San Francisco

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