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Author: Lewis Publishing Co. (1896)

REV. GLEN ALBERT TAYLOR, pastor of the Congregational Church at Stuart, Iowa, is
a native of Denmark, Lee county, this State, born July 7, 1860.

   His parents, Thomas S. and Mary F. (Brown) Taylor, are natives respectively
of Enosburg, Vermont, and Groton, Massachusetts, the former born in 1828 and the
latter in 1833. They were married in Lee county, Iowa, in 1856, and now reside
on a farm near Denmark, that county. The Taylors are of Scotch origin. Reuben
Taylor, a great-uncle of our subject, received from King George a deed to
property in New Ipswich, New Hampshire. Thomas S. and Mary F. Taylor have a
family of four children, namely: Marietta, wife of H. W. Van Dyke, resides near
Fairfield, Iowa, where Mr. Van Dyke is engaged in farming; Glen A., the subject
of this article; Edwin, engaged in farming near Denmark; and Harriet, a popular
and successful teacher.

   The subject of our sketch received his early education in Denmark Academy,
graduating there in 1881. That same year he entered Williams College, in
Massachusetts, where he pursued a four-years course and where he graduated in
1885, with the degree of A. B. He passed the following year as a student in the
Chicago Theological Seminary. In 1889 he graduated with the degree of B. D. at
the Yale Divinity School, and after that took a postgraduate course at Andover,
Massachusetts. In the meantime, immediately after the year spent in Chicago, he
was for eighteen months a missionary in Nebraska. June 8, 1890, he assumed
charge of the church over which he now presides and where he has served as
pastor ever since, his whole time being devoted to the interests of the church
at this place. It is said that the Congregational Church at Stuart, which is the
oldest religious organization of the place, was established here in the early
history of the town by Rev. Joseph Pickett, who was superintendent of home
missions in the State. He held meetings in a hotel office and selected as the
leader of his choir one of the three saloon-keepers then here. Old settlers say
this was the foundation of the Congregational Church in Stuart. To-day this
church has a membership of two hundred and forty. Its Sabbath-school has an
enrollment of two hundred and sixty-eight, with an average attendance of two
hundred and nine in 1894. Under its present pastor it has had an era of great
prosperity.

   Mr. Taylor was married at Perry, Iowa, September 2, 1890, to Miss Flora
Wetmore, daughter of Henry and Louisa (Patterson) Wetmore. Her parents are both
deceased. The Pattersons were among the first settlers of Gilman, Iowa. Mrs.
Taylor was educated at Iowa College, Grinnell, and Wellelsey College,
Massachusetts, being a graduate of the former institution with the class of
1884. After her return from Wellelsey College, where she spent two years, making
a specialty of music, she was employed for two years as music teacher in the
Denmark Academy. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have one child, Miriam, born July 1, 1891.


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A MEMORIAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD OF IOWA

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"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.

"Biography is by nature the must universally profitable, universally pleasant,
of all things."—CARLYLE

"History is only biography on a large scale"—LAMARTINE.

CHICAGO: THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1896


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