Bio: John W. Taylor, Sabine Parish, Louisiana

Source: History of Sabine Parish by John G. Belisle, The Sabine Banner Press,

1912 (Page 313)

Submitted: by : Kay Thompson Brown
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JOHN W. TAYLOR



John W. Taylor a prominent and esteemed citizen of Fort Jesup, was born near

Akron, Ohio, July 26, 1839; moved with his father's family to Kansas, and when

the Civil War came on he enlisted in Company I, 32nd Regiment, Ohio Volunteer

Infantry.  At the close of that conflict he was married to Miss Mary M.

Russell of Clyde, Ohio, who was at that time a member of the faculty of Baker

University, Baldwin, Kansas.  Until 1878 he was engaged in the mercantile

business, when, for his wife's health, he moved to Colorado, where he spent

three years in the cashier's office of the D. & R. G. Railway co.  In 1884 he

came to Sabine parish and the following year bought a farm, on which he has

since resided.  Mr. Taylor has been identified with public affairs, serving as

trustee of the Masonic Institute and High School at Fort Jesup, as

representative of the parish in the general assembly of 1892-94, as member and

president of the Parish School Board, and is prominent in Masonic circles as a

member of the pioneer lodge at Fort Jesup and as Deputy District Grand Master. 

Mr. Taylor is an affable gentleman, loyal to the interests of country of his

adoption, and bespeaks for it a glorious future.



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