Santa Cruz-El Dorado County CA Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Nelson 1811 - 
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Author: Luther A. Ingersoll, Editor (1893)

NELSON TAYLOR, a venerable pioneer of Santa Cruz, California, was born in
Tompkins county, New York, April 12, 1811. He was educated in the district
schools, and at twenty-one years of age went to Ohio and taught school one
winter. Feeling a need of further education, he took a course of study in an
academy at Milan, Huron county, Ohio. After he left the academy, he taught in
Michigan and subsequently in New York. Then he clerked in Indiana till 1849,
when he was seized with the gold fever and started for California. He landed in
San Francisco, in 1850, after an uneventful voyage, via Panama. For a short time
he mined near Coloma, but was not successful, so in the fall of 1850 he came to
Santa Cruz. Three years he clerked for Elihu Anthony in his store. Then, in
company with another man, he bought or took up a farm, and worked it two years.

  In 1857 Mr. Taylor was united in marriage with Miss Frances E. Robbins, a
native of Massachusetts, and a daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Cutting) Robbins.
After his marriage he sold his farm and moved to town, into an old adobe house.
For a while he kept a dairy, etc. Then he bought a farm at Bay View. In 1862 he
was elected Assessor, and served five terms in succession. But five years ago
built a comfortable residence in Santa Cruz, on Saint Lawrence street, where he
expects to spend the remainder of his life. He is an active and honored member
of the Congregational Church; was one of the first Deacons, and was the second
Secretary, when there were but eleven members in Santa Cruz. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor
have two children: Herbert Nelson, of San Francisco, and Miss Frances Harriet.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Memorial and Biographical History of the Coast Counties of Central California.

Illustrated.

Containing a History of this Important Section of the Pacific Coast from the
Earliest Period of its Discovery to the Present Time, together with Glimpses of
its Auspicious Future; Illustrations and Full-Page Portraits of some of its
Eminent Men, and Biographical Mention of many of its Pioneers, and Prominent
Citizens of To-day.

HENRY D. BARROWS,
Editor of the Historical Department.

LUTHER A. INGERSOLL,
Editor of the Biographical Department.

"A people that take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will
never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote
descendants."-Macaulay.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1893.

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