Woodson County KS Archives News.....W. P. Taylor & Son September 1, 1899
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Woodson County Advocate Friday Page 16 September 1, 1899
           SELL THE EARTH
W. P. Taylor & Son, Yates Center, Kansas
Real Estate, Loan and Insurance Agents,
          Notaries Public.
   It is now an exploded idea that anyone may
become a successful real estate agent. The
progress made in this, as in all other branches
of business, demands that it should only be
followed by men who are reliable and who under-
stand every detail of the work. The real estate
agent who locates in a town simply because it is
experiencing an era of prosperity can no longer
compete with the man who has spent years in the
community. Investors insist upon knowing who
they are dealing with, and sellers must feel 
sure that they have their property  in responsible
hands.
   In these times of real estate activity in Woodson
county it is fitting to direct attention to the
above firm who for fourteen years have conducted
the business in Yates Center. They have on their
books many of the choice realty bargains in this
section of the state, and purchasers can procure
farms from forty acres up to almost any desirable
size. Their transations in selling and exchanging
farms are among the most extensive in the county.
The loan department is an important feature of this
business which is steadily increasing owing to the
fact that Taylor & Son have ample capital at their
command, and loans are made without delay, at low
rates of interest and on liberal terms. In the 
insurance department such staunch and reliable
companies as the North British and Mercantile of
Edinburg and London, Continental of New York,
Delaware of Philadelphia and Merchants of Newark,
N. J., are represented. Both members of the firm
are notaries public, which is on inestimable aid
in the prompt transaction of business requiring
such services. They make a specialty of acting
as agents for non-resident property holders,
collecting rents, paying taxes, and by their 
interest in such matters keep up the value of
such property.
   W. P. Taylor, the senior member of the firm was
born in Fayette, Ohio, in 1839, but moved with the
family to Indiana when a child of two years, and 
in the Hoosier state was reared and educated. 
During the war of the rebellion he served his
country three years in the 24th Indiana Battery,
sharing its hardships, battles and honors. After 
the war he returned to Indiana and was united in
marriage to Miss Matilda Sievert. Until coming
west in 1869 he was engaged in farming near Crown
Point, Indiana, and in that year came to Wilson
county near Coyville and continued in the same 
avocation. AFter the county seat of Woodson county
was moved from Kalida to Defiance he moved to the
last named town and engaged in the mercantile and 
later hotel business. He moved to Yates Center in
the fall of 1876 and conducted a hotel for the
succeeding seven years. The original hotel building
erected and occupied by Mr. Taylor was the fifth
structure erected in Yates Center. After disposing
of his hotel interests he was engaged in mercantile
pursuits for two year and then in 1885 established
the business he is now prominently identified with.
In politices Mr. Taylor is a republican and while
prominent in his party, has never been in office, 
other than justice of the peace for four years. He
is a Mason and Odd Fellow, and a member of the K. &
L. of F., Triple Tie and the G. A. R. In business,
social and fraternal circles W. P. Taylor ranks
among the leaders in this community. J. E. Taylor,
the junior member of the firm was born in Indiana
and came to Kansas when three years of age. He was
reared and educated in the Sunflower state and
possesses the hustling proclivities of her sons.
For nine years he was foreman in a large copying
house in Kansas City, which position he relinquished
to return to Yates Center in 1898 to engage in the
business with his father. Both father and son are
men of unquestioned ability and integrity and any
movement for the advancement of Yates Center and
Woodson county may always rely upon their hearty
support. Investors or sellers can do no better than
to place their business in the hands of W. P. Taylor
& Son.



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