BIO:  TAYLOR, Dr. Harvey, s/o John and Malinda (Woodall) Taylor

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

TAYLOR   WOODALL   DAVIS   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Van Buren Twp., page 904

DR. HARVEY TAYLOR is a native of Kentucky, born April 10, 1821, son of John
and Malinda (Woodall) Taylor.  The father was born in Virginia in 1795.  He
was a farmer and died in Kentucky in 1850.  The mother was born in 1799 and
died about 1854.  Our subject obtained the education of the average
farmer's boy, and when nineteen years old began working for himself.  April
10, 1842, he married Elizabeth Davis, born in 1817.  She died in 1880, 
leaving one child, James S.  In 1846 Dr. Taylor began the study of medicine
with Dr. John Hill, of Bloomington, Ind., remaining with him one year.
After a two years' study with Dr. Matthew Fee he began practicing his
profession in Daviess County, Ind., meeting with good success.  In 1875 he
took a course of lectures at the medical college of Indiana, and graduated
from that institution the same year.  During the war he was a strong Union
man, and served in company C, Fourteenth Indiana Volunteers.  He was promoted
to first lieutenant of Company F, and remained with that company four years.
He then joined Company I, Sixty-fifth Indiana Infantry and took an active
part in many of the principal battles of the war.  In 1875-76 he represented
Daviess County in the State Legislature.  He owns 250 acres of land, and is
a Democrat politically, and is a member of the F.& A.M.
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