Lake County IN Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Charles A. 1857 - 
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Author: T. H. Ball (1904)

CHARLES A. TAYLOR.

    "Biography is the only true history," says Carlyle, and then the philosopher
Emerson further asserts that the true history of a nation is best told in the
lives of its representative men and women, so that in detailing the careers of
the leading citizens of Lake county its own history is likewise being written.
One record that will add to the completeness of this work on Lake county is that
of Mr. C. A. Taylor and wife, who belong to the younger class of citizens of
West Creek township and whose success in their life work gives them high place
in the estimation of their fellow citizens.

    Mr. Taylor is a native son of this county, and was born July 16, 1857, being
the second in a family of five children, three sons and two daughters, born to
DeWitt Clinton and Emma L. (Palmer) Taylor. He is the oldest of those living;
his brother Frank J., now married and engaged in stock-raising at Hiawatha,
Nebraska, received a college education at Valparaiso and taught school in Lake
county three or four years; Emma, the wife of Martin D. Palmer, a farmer of
Jennings county, Indiana, received her education in the Lowell high school;
William, who was educated in the public schools and at college, is married and
is a farmer and butcher at Lowell.

    DeWitt C. Taylor was born in 1826 and died in January, 1888. He was reared
to farm life, and his education was mainly self-acquired. He was a successful
man, being so through the energy and forcefulness of his own character. During
his boyhood he had attended the old log-cabin school. He was one of the early
settlers of Lake county, and was here before the Indians had left their
ancestral haunts. His first home was on the east side of Cedar lake, where he
was domiciled in a log cabin for a time, then sold that and moved to Cedar Creek
township, and afterward became a pioneer settler of West Creek township. He
accumulated over two hundred acres of fine land, and did well by his family. He
cast his early votes for the Whig party, and later became one of the stanchest
supporters of Republican principles, being a warm admirer of Lincoln. He was one
of Indiana's brave men who went to the front during the Civil war, enlisting at
Crown Point in the Sixty-third Indiana Infantry, along at the first of the war.
He was first assigned to the Army of the Potomac and later to the
Trans-Mississippi department, and he wore the blue uniform and continued in
service until the end of the war, when he returned to peace and quiet labor on
his own farm. His wife was born in St. Joseph county of this state, in 1831, and
died in March, 1903. Her ancestors were early New Englanders, some of whom were
soldiers in the Revolution, which entitles the Taylor family to membership in
the patriotic orders of the Sons and Daughters of the Revolution. Both parents
of Mr. Taylor are interred in the Creston cemetery, where suitable monuments
mark their final resting places.

    Mr. Charles A. Taylor was reared and educated in this county, and from his
earliest years his training and pursuits have been in farming and stock-raising.
When he was twenty-three years old, on August 19, 1880, he was united in
marriage to Miss Alice E. Pixley. They have one son, Edson M., who received his
diploma from the grammar schools in 1903 and has taken one year's work in the
Lowell high school. Mrs. Taylor was born January 20, 1861, a daughter of William
H. and Nancy Ann (Scritchfield) Pixley, whose history will be found in
connection with their son Chester Pixley. Mrs. Taylor was reared in this county
and educated in the common schools. She is a member of the Methodist Episcopal
church at Creston.

    After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Taylor began as renters in West Creek
township, but a year later purchased sixty acres of land where they now live.
They went in debt for practically all of this, but their combined industry,
economy and capable management have given them a beautiful estate in their own
name, improved it immeasurably above its first condition, and made the Taylor
farm a model of thrifty and progressive agricultural enterprise. They have since
added forty acres to their first farm, and also twenty acres inherited by Mrs.
Taylor. Besides their country farmstead they own a pretty residence property on
the west limits of Lowell, and this they contemplate making their home.

    Mr. Taylor has been loyal and efficient in supporting the Republican party
ever since casting his first vote for Garfield, and has served as a delegate to
the county conventions. As a resident of the banner township of the county he
has done his share in all public works and enterprises and made his influence
felt on the side of progress in social, moral and intellectual affairs.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904


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