Johnson County KS Archives Biographies.....Taylor, B. S. 1863 - 
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Author: Ed Blair

  B. S. Taylor, president and treasurer of the Taylor Mercantile Company, De 
Soto, Kan., belongs to a family of pioneer merchants of Johnson county. His 
father, Charles H. Taylor, was a member of the firm Taylor, Baldwin & Company, 
who engaged in the mercantile business at De Soto, fifty years ago. Their 
first store was in a small frame building on Shawnee Street. The business 
continued under that firm name and style until 1878, when Charles H. Taylor 
bought out the other partners and conducted the business until his death in 
1896, and two years later the Taylor Mercantile Company was organized when B. 
S. Taylor and other members of the Taylor family bought the stock and 
reorganized the business. A. J. Taylor is now secretary of the company. They 
carry about $10,000 stock of general merchandise and own their own building, 
and are one of the leading concerns of the kind in Johnson county, and the 
Taylor Mercantile Company is perhaps the oldest mercantile institution in 
Johnson county that has been continuously under the management of the members 
of any one family. B. S. Taylor, who is the subject of this review, was born 
in Bureau county, Illinois, April 30, 1863, a son of Charles H. and Mattie 
(Strawn) Taylor, the former a native of Ohio and the latter of Illinois. They 
were married at Ottawa, Ill., and six children were born to this union; Alice 
Belle, Elizabeth, Eva, Emma and B. S. B. S. Taylor was only two years old when 
the family came to Kansas and located in De Soto in 1865. He attended the 
common schools, and when eighteen years old began clerking in his father's 
store, which was the beginning of his mercantile career, which has continued 
up to the present time. Mr. Taylor was married in 1888, to Miss Alice Frain, a 
native daughter of Kansas, born at De Soto, of pioneer parents. Her father 
owned and operated a ferry boat across the Kaw river at De Soto in an early 
day. To Mr. and Mrs. Taylor have been born four children, two of whom are 
living, as follows: Louis F., born in 1890, a graduate of the Lawrence High 
School, and Alberta, born in 1899, a student in the Lawrence High School. Mr. 
Taylor is a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and has been a member of 
the Masonic Lodge for twenty-five years, and the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen for twenty-seven years, and has passed the chairs in three lodges.

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HISTORY OF Johnson County Kansas
BY
ED BLAIR

AUTHOR OF
Kansas Zephyrs, Sunflower Sittings and Other Poems and Sketches

IN ONE VOLUME

ILLUSTRATED
STANDARD PUBLISHING COMPANY
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
1915


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