Tuscola County MI Archives Biographies.....Taylor, James 1844 - 
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Author: Chapman Bros. (1892)

JAMES TAYLOR. This veterinary surgeon, who is carrying on a good practice in
Vassar, had his birth in Westmoreland County, England, on the 19th of June,
1844, and came to America with his parents at the age of eight years, living in
Niagara County, N. Y., until he was twelve years old, when he went to Canada to
work by the month at farming and there had the misfortune to break his leg.

  Three years later young Taylor returned to New York and in April, 1861, he
enlisted as a private in Company C, Twenty-eighth New York Infantry, and saw the
smoke of battle at Ball's Bluff, Winchester, Cedar Mountain, and in many
skirmishes. He was wounded August 9, 1862, at Cedar Mountain and lost a piece of
bone from his arm above the elbow. On account of this wound he received his
honorable discharge in November, of that year, in Alexander Hospital, and after
returning to New York he spent the next two summers buying and selling horses
and village property. He was married April 5, 1865, at Porter, Niagara County,
N. Y., to Miss Catherine McConnell, who was born in Sterling, Canada, in 1845.

  John Pawley, D. V. S., of Porter, N. Y., is the preceptor under whom Dr.
Taylor studied his profession and he began its practice in 1865, coming to
Vassar in 1872. Besides the results of this practice, which are good, he
receives a pension of $30 a month on account of his disabilities received in
battle and he has accumulated some valuable real estate. He has six children:
Gilbert, born in Porter, N. Y., March 4, 1868, who is an artist in Buffalo,
where he does excellent work for the papers of that city; Jennie, born December
2, 1870, in Porter, and now Mrs. William Scott, of Chicago; Nancy M., born in
Vassar, May 9, 1874; Lillian, August 1, 1876; James P., March 1, 1878; and Kate,
December 13, 1881; besides these there are four deceased.

  He of whom we write is a member of the Masonic fraternity of which he is
considered a prominent representative. His political convictions have led him to
ally himself with the Republican party and he is a strong defender of its
principles and policy. The Grand Army of the Republic commands his warm
adherence and nothing gives him greater delight than to join in reunions with
his old comrades in arms. In this organization he has served as Officer of the
Day and has attended some of the national reunions enjoying greatly the
encampments at Columbus and Detroit. While interested in the political movements
of the day he has for himself kept aloof from office and has never been willing
to have his name brought before the people for elective positions.

  The educational advantages of Dr. Taylor in his early life were extremely
limited, as a scant common school education was all which he had an opportunity
to embrace, but throughout life he has steadfastly and systematically improved
every opportunity for improvement and has in this way gained the culture and
general intelligence which have made him the man he is to-day, and his natural
ability has given him an advantage over many who have had better opportunities
than he.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Portrait and Biographical Record of Genesee, Lapeer and Tuscola Counties,
Michigan, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative
Citizens, Together with Biographies of all the Governors of the State, and of
the Presidents of the United States

Chicago:
Chapman Bros.
1892


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