Pueblo County, History of Colorado, BIOS: TAYLOR, Cyrus F. M.D. (published 1918)
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"History of Colorado", edited by Wilbur Fisk Stone, published by The S. J. 
Clarke Publishing Co. (1918)  Vol. II


p. 227-228


CYRUS F. TAYLOR, M.D.

	Dr. Cyrus F. Taylor, the pioneer physician and surgeon of Pueblo 
county, has here practiced continuously since 1880 or for a period 
covering nearly tour decades. As a representative of the medical 
profession he has met with well deserved success and the name of Taylor 
has long been an honored one in Pueblo and throughout the county. His 
birth occurred in Hope, Knox county, Maine, on the 21st of October, 
1857, his parents being Cyrus and Caroline (Bowley) Taylor, who spent 
their entire lives in the Pine Tree state, where the father followed 
the occupation of farming. The family numbered three sons and a 
daughter.

	Cyrus F. Taylor, the eldest of the children, acquired his early 
education in the rural and high schools of his native state and 
subsequently continued his studies in the Maine Wesleyan Academy at 
Kents Hill. Having determined upon a professional career, he entered 
the Medical School of Maine at Bowdoin College, which institution 
conferred upon him the degree of M. D. upon his graduation with the 
class of 1880. He first located for practice at Liberty, Maine, there 
remaining from June, 1880, until the following November, when he came 
west to Colorado, taking up his abode in Pueblo, where he has remained 
an active representative of the medical fraternity to the present date. 
There were only four physicians in the county at the time of his 
arrival and he is the only one of these early practitioners who is 
still active in the profession. He has ever kept in close touch with 
advanced thought and methods in medical practice and has long enjoyed 
an enviable reputation as a most progressive and successful 
representative of the profession. He is a valued member of the Pueblo 
County Medical Society and also belongs to the Colorado State Medical 
Association and the American Medical Association.

	On the 19th of November, 1881, Dr. Taylor was united in marriage 
to Miss Nancy A. Robinson, a former schoolmate. They became the parents 
of five children, as follows: Laura A., who is principal of the 
Riverside school, which has an attendance of over six hundred children 
of foreign-born parents and is one of the largest schools with such an 
attendance in Colorado; Guy M., who is engaged in the automobile 
business; Dr. Ray R., who is a successful medical practitioner of 
Pueblo and a sketch of whom appears on another page of this work; Cyrus 
F., Jr., also connected with the automobile business; and Ernest W.. a 
high school graduate.

	Dr. Taylor is a republican in politics and has long been 
prominent and active in the local ranks of the party. In 1883 he was 
elected coroner and two years later was chosen county superintendent of 
schools, being reelected to the latter position in 1887 and making a 
most excellent record in that connection. In 1889 he was made chairman 
of the republican central committee. He also served for two terms as 
school director in District No. 1 and the cause of education has ever 
found in him a stalwart champion. Fraternally he is identified with the 
Masons, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, the Court of Honor and 
the Eagles and he is likewise a member of the Bowdoin Alumni 
Asociation. His religious faith is that of the Univeraalist church. He 
takes a deep and helpful interest in all matters pertaining to progress 
and development in community affairs and is well known and highly 
esteemed as a public-spirited, leading and influential citizen of 
Pueblo.