Butts County GaArchives Biographies.....Taylor, William Monroe 1868 - 1929
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Source: Jackson Argus – Week of January 3, 1902
Author: Jackson Argus – Week of January 3, 1902

Taylor, Hon. William Monroe
The newly elected Alderman from the Second Ward, was born June 14,, 1868, in 
Monroe County, on a farm.  In 1868, his father moved to Barnesville to live, 
and young Taylor was educated at Gordon Institute.  Leaving school in 1885, he 
moved to Butts county, and farmed and ran a poultry yard.  September 12, 1886, 
he was married to Miss Mattie J. Woodward, an accomplished young lady of Butts 
county, and in January 1887, went back to Barnesville and engaged in the 
grocery business there until 1892, when he accepted the position as commercial 
traveler for the Cincinnati Cigar Factory, in which position he continued 
through December 1894.  He then returned to Butts county, locating at McKibben, 
where he ran a general store, and engaged in the poultry and pet stock 
business.  He moved to Jackson in December 1900, and brought  branches of his 
poultry farms here, and began the publication of the Georgia Poultry Herald, 
devoted exclusively to poultry, pet stock and pigs on lore.  Only this week, 
Mr. Taylor sold this excellent journal to Mr. W. Hemmingway, of Perry, Ga., as 
a handsome profit.
Mr. Taylor has for years been president of the Georgia State Poultry Pet Stock 
and Pigeon Association, and of the Butts County Association, and has taken 
front rank among the fanciers of the south.
However he is now in the fancy grocery business, his first love, and presides 
over one of the nicest, cleanest grocery stores in the state, where polite and 
prompt attention and thorough business habits are rapidly bringing him to the 
front.
It is Mr. Taylor’s first venture into city affairs, but the confidence of his 
neighbors in both his ability and his energy is evidenced by the fact that he 
had no opposition, both tickets put him on.’
He is a thorough gentleman, an energetic Christian, full of energy and ability, 
and is a splendid model of what can be made out of a Middle Georgia boy.
Jackson Argus – Week of January 3, 1902


Additional Comments:
Jackson City Cemetery on findagrave lists his death as Jul. 17, 1929

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