Tipton-Wayne-Henry County IN Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Samuel M. 1843 - 
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Author: Charles Blanchard, Editor (1883)

   SAMUEL M. TAYLOR, proprietor of the Tipton Mills, and for a long time
identified with the business interests of Tipton, was born in Wayne County,
Ind., April 19, 1831. His father, Samuel Taylor, Sr., a resident of Wayne
County, a very successful farmer and a prominent minister of the Baptist Church,
died August 3, 1833, in his fifty-third year. Our subject was reared in Wayne
and Henry Counties, obtaining his education from the common schools and County
Seminary. At the age of sixteen years, he entered upon the profession of
teaching, and followed it for several years, teaching in the counties of
Delaware, Parke, Kosciusko and Randolph, in this State, and for a time in the
State of Michigan. In 1852, he entered upon the duties of Deputy Clerk of Henry
County, and while in that position he took up the study of the law; was finally
admitted to the bar, but never engaged in actual practice. He afterward clerked
for a time at Economy. In 1856, he removed to Kokomo, and discharged the duties
of Deputy Clerk of Howard County. After one year, he came to Tipton, and was
installed as Deputy Clerk of Tipton County. In 1857, he removed to Windfall and
engaged in the merchandise business until 1864. In 1863, he enlisted in Company
C, One Hundred and First Regiment Indiana Volunteers, and was assigned to the
Fourteenth Army Corps, under Thomas; he was in all the battles fought on
Sherman's march to the sea, and through to Raleigh, N. C. He was discharged from
the service in August, 1865, and returned home. In 1866, he removed to Tipton
and engaged in the grocery business until 1870, when he purchased the Tipton
Mills, and has ever since been in the milling business, at which he has been
very successful; he also buys grain, and is engaged in shipping it to the
various grain markets of the country. In 1874, he was elected by the Republicans
of Hamilton and Tipton Counties as their Representative to the General Assembly
of the State, and served one term of two years. He was again, in 1876, elected,
by the same party of the same counties, as Senator to the General Assembly for
one term of four years. He was married in Tipton, in 1866, to Miss Rebecca
Wiggins, who departed this life June 6, 1882. By her he has a family of four
children, namely, Florence M., Lora, Hat-tie and Augusta. Politically, Mr.
Taylor is a Republican, and is also a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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COUNTIES OF HOWARD AND TIPTON, INDIANA.

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.

CHARLES BLANCHARD. EDITOR.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO.
1883.


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