Mesa County CO Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Arthur George  August 6, 1870 - ?
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Author: Progressive Men of Western Colorado

     Dr. Arthur George Taylor, of Grand Junction, one of the popular and

serviceable professional men of Mesa county, who has been in active practice

there since 1899, has had the usual experience of a country physician and

surgeon—a life of toil and sacrifice for the good of others, with the

satisfaction of knowing that his labors, although often seemingly unappreciated,

have yet been of substantial benefit to his community and contributed in a large

measure to the comfort and welfare of its people.  He is a native of Booneville,

Missouri, born on August 6, 1870, and is the son of W.C.P. and Mary (McClain)

Taylor, the former a native of Virginia and the latter of Missouri. The father

was a carriage maker by trade and located at Booneville when a young man.  In

1849 he crossed the plains with ox teams to California, where he remained five

years, three years engaged in mining and two years in freighting and the stock

industry.  He died in 1901 at Booneville, Missouri, where the mother is still

living.  Their offspring numbered eight, of whom two died in infancy and one son

at the age of thirty. The Doctor was the last born of the family.  He was reared

at Booneville and there received a public-school education. Afterward he

attended the University of Missouri at Columbia, pursuing a scientific course

preparatory to the study of medicine, and was graduated in 1896.  His

professional course was taken at the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis,

where he was graduated in 1899.  He then went to Philadelphia and passed a year

in a post-graduate course and hospital work at Jefferson Medical College.  In

1899 he went to Grand Junction and began the successful practice of his

profession, in which he is still actively engaged.  His practice is general,

covers a wide extent of the surrounding country and is highly representative in

character, numbering among its patrons many of the best families in his section

of the state.  In the organizations for combining the best thought and forces of

the profession he is active and helpful, being a zealous member of the Mesa

County medical Society, the Colorado State Medical Society and the American

Medical Association.  In the proceedings of the county society he has taken

special interest and is now serving efficiently as its secretary.  In fraternal

lines he is connected with the Masonic order, the Modern Woodmen of America and

the Woodmen of the World, and in political faith and allegiance he is a

Democrat, but not an active partisan. On November 16, 1897, he was married to

Miss Hannah E. Tice, a native of New Jersey, and daughter of Richard E. and

Emily (Steelman) Tice, the former born in that state and the latter in New York.

 The Tice family are of Revolutionary stock and bore themselves valiantly in the

great struggle for American independence.  Mrs. Taylor’s parents reside at

Williamstown, New Jersey, and are prosperous farmers.  The Doctor’s family

consists of one son, Richard E., now (1904) three years old, in addition to his

wife and himself.      

Additional Comments:
From Progressive Men of Western Colorado.  Chicago:  A.W. Bowen & Co., 1905

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