Contra Costa-Solano County CA Archives Biographies.....Taylor, A. T. 1821 - 
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Author: W. A. Slocum & Co., Publishers (1882)

A. T. TAYLOR.—The subject of this sketch is a native of Canada East, and was
born in the township of Bolton, September 15, 1821. He resided in that vicinity
until nineteen and a half years old, when he started to seek his own livelihood,
his father supplying him with two suits of clothes and one dollar. For the next
three years he worked as a farm-laborer in an adjoining county, and attended
school during the Winter. In the Spring of 1844, Mr. Taylor engaged in farming
on his own account, when he purchased one hundred and twenty-one and a half
acres of land which he farmed for eleven years. He then returned and settled on
his birthplace farm (his old home), where he resided until he started for the
Golden State. He, with his family, sailed from New York, November 6, 1866, for
California via Panama, and arrived in San Francisco December 2d. The first two
years he spent in Vallejo, Solano county, and in September, 1868, came to this
county and located on his present ranch of three hundred and twenty acres, in
Point of Timber district, and engaged in general farming. Mr. Taylor married in
Canada, June 17, 1845, Miss Louisa Bruce, a native of Vermont, U. S. A. Their
family consists of: Valeria M., born July 14, 1846; Avyette, born October 27,
1848; Volney B., born June 20, 1851; Alexander V., born April 11,1853.

Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY,
CALIFORNIA,
INCLUDING ITS GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY, TOPOGRAPHY, CLIMATOGRAPHY AND DESCRIPTION;
TOGETHER WITH A RECORD OF THE MEXICAN GRANTS; THE BEAR FLAG WAR; THE MOUNT
DIABLO COAL FIELDS; THE EARLY HISTORY AND SETTLEMENT, COMPILED FROM THE MOST
AUTHENTIC SOURCES; THE NAMES OF ORIGINAL SPANISH AND MEXICAN PIONEERS; FULL
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OF THE COUNTY; SEPARATE HISTORY OF EACH TOWNSHIP, SHOWING
THE ADVANCE IN POPULATION AND AGRICULTURE;
ALSO,
Incidents of Pioneer Life; and Biographical Sketches
OF EARLY AND PROMINENT SETTLERS AND REPRESENTATIVE MEN;
AMD OF ITS TOWNS, VILLAGES, CHURCHES, SECRET SOCIETIES, ETC.
ILLUSTRATED.
SAN FRANCISCO: W. A. SLOCUM & CO., PUBLISHERS
1882.



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