Bio of TAYLOR, George W., Hennepin Co., MN
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EXTRACTED FROM: History of Minneapolis, Gateway to the Northwest; 
Chicago-Minneapolis, The S J Clarke Publishing Co, 1923; Edited by: Rev. 
Marion Daniel Shutter, D.D., LL.D.; Volume I - Shutter (Historical); 
volume II - Biographical; volume III - Biographical
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Vol II, pg 717
GEORGE W. TAYLOR
George W. Taylor, a well known insurance man of Minneapolis, was born in
Lafayette, Indiana, and is a representative of one of the old American families,
his ancestors coming from England and casting in their lot with the early
settlers of Virginia.
Reared in his native state George W. Taylor attended the public schools of
Indiana and also the Valparaiso Normal School, from which he was graduated with
the class of 1881. He afterward engaged in teaching school for four years and
then abandoned professional activities for the field of life insurance, which he
entered in 1885. He continued a resident of Indiana until 1888, when he removed
to Duluth, Minnesota, there remaining until 1898, when he went to North Dakota,
where he continued in the insurance business until 1907. He has been at the head
of an office for the Union Central Life Insurance Company for a quarter of a
century and at the present writing is chief executive for the company at
Minneapolis. He has built up a business of substantial proportions, being today
recognized as a prominent figure in insurance circies in this city, the result
of wide experience, close application and thoroughness in everything that he has
undertaken.
In 1883 Mr. Taylor was united in marriage to Miss Jennie Lister of Brookstown,
Indiana, and they have become parents of four children: Frank Ethelbert, William
J., Josephine and Charles Lister. The last named served with the heavy artillery
branch of the army, being a member of the Three Hundred and Thirty-ninth Field
Artillery during the World war. He was sent overseas and served all through the
Meuse and Argonne offensives. He suffered shell shock and was honorably
discharged after the signing of the armistice, having enlisted soon after the
United States entered the war. The daughter, Josephine Taylor, is superintendent
of the Glendale Kindergarten.
Mr. Taylor is a life member of the Masonic lodge at Duluth. He also has
mem­bership with the Knights of Pythias and with the Elks lodge at Fargo, North
Dakota. He belongs to the Minneapolis Athletic Club and the Minneapolis Golf
Club, finding his chief recreation in a game on the links. He is also identified
with the Civic & Commerce Association and is interested in all of the carefully
defined efforts and activities of that organization for the benefit and
upbuilding of the city. He has ever been actuated by a spirit of advancement as
the years have passed and this has been manifest constantly in his career as an
insurance man, bringing him to a most creditable position in insurance circles
in his adopted city.