Bio: Rufus F. Taylor, Claiborne Parish, LA
Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
The Southern Publishing Company, Chicago & Nashville, 1890
Submitted for the LAGenWeb Archives by: Gwen Moran-Hernandez, Jan. 2000


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Rufus F. Taylor is well and favorable known in Claiborne and surrounding 
parishes as an honorable and fair-dealing merchant, and as the establishment 
of which he is manager is large and well appointed, he commands a large share 
of the trade throughout this section.  He is sole manager of the house, which 
is known as Taylor & Son, and in the conduct of affairs has shown that he is 
thoroughly capable and a man of keen business foresight. [For a full genealogy 
of his family see sketch of his father W. J. Taylor.]  Mr. Taylor was so fortunate 
as to receive excellent advantages in his youth, and was an attendant of the Homer 
High School, where he learned lessons which have admirably fitted him for the 
practical duties of life.  At the age of eighteen years he began life for himself 
as a clerk in a mercantile store in Homer and in this town he has since made his 
home, being well known by his brother tradesmen as a keen, practical and successful 
business man.  He was born October 10, 1862, and was married near Shreveport, La., 
March 15, 1887, to Miss Rebecca Platt, a native of Louisiana, and to them a sweet 
little daughter has been born, Nora Aline, aged two years.  Mr. Taylor has always 
identified himself with the Democratic party and has strenuously upheld its principles, 
his first presidential vote being cast for Grover Cleveland.  Socially he belongs to 
Homer Lodge of the I. O. O. F., and he and his wife a liberal contributors of their 
means to laudable enterprises, she being a consistent and earnest member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church South of Homer.  They expect to be permanent residents 
of the town where they now live, for here they are well fixed, financially, and have 
numerous friends and acquaintances.

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