TAYLOR, Joseph D., Delphi, IN., then Orleans Parish, Louisiana
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JOSEPH D. TAYLOR, a prominent notary of New Orleans, was born in Delphi,
Ind., January 31, 1843.  His father was Dr. John F. Taylor, a native of
Schoharie county, N. Y., and a physician of decided merit, who died in
1867.  His wife, the mother of the subject of this sketch, was Nancy M.
Dewey, a native of New York, her death also occurring in 1877.  Her parents
removed to Indiana in an early day, and were well and favorably known in
the counties of Carroll and Cass.  Her father was Dr. Milo Dewey.  Hon.
Joseph D. Taylor accompanied his parents to Louisiana in 1845, and to New
Orleans in 1849, in the public schools of which city he received his
initiatory training, graduating from the high school on April 12, 1801.  In
the spring of the following year he entered the service of the confederate
army in Drenz's cavalry, and served with that command until the close of
the war.  He then returned to New Orleans, which city has since been the
scene of his labors.  His chief occupation since the war has been that of
notary, and during this long term of years he has mastered every detail of
his work and has the honor of being one of the leading business men of the
city and her official notary.  In politics he has always been a democrat
and his party has honored him by an election to the lower house of the
state legislature in 1878, in which he served one term with honor to
himself and party.  Through his public career no taint of suspicion nor
well-sounded breath of scandal has attached to his name.  He is open and
above board in all his dealings, frank and outspoken in his expressions,
and whatever his faults his most active opponents could never say aught
derogatory to his character.  He is an active member of the A. F. & A. M.,
the K. of H. and the Order of Druids.  He is president of the association
of the Army of Tennessee of Louisiana, and is interested in all movements
of a worthy nature.  Mr. Taylor was married in 1871 to Miss Louella Z.
Kenton, of the city of New Orleans, by whom he has two daughters.

Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 414.
Published by the Goodspeed Publishing Company, Chicago, 1892.