Meeker County MN Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Norris Y. 1850 - 
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NORRIS Y. TAYLOR, an enterprising, prosperous and reliable farmer of Ellsworth
township, has his home upon section 17. He settled on this place on coming to
the county in 1874, and has now a fine farm of 246 acres of excellent arable
land for the most part, 110 of which is under a high state of tillage. He
carries on general farming, but gives considerable attention to dairy interests,
keeping about thirty head of cattle, mostly of Holstein strains.

Our subject is a native of Illinois, born in Vermilion county, October 8, 1850.
He commenced life young, for when but sixteen years of age he hired out to work
for ten dollars per month. His next move was to work for his board and go to
school, with the set purpose of making up for the lack of earlier opportunity.
In this way he acquired the elements of an excellent education, taking a course
or more in the higher branches, in the schools at Perrysville, Ind. He now
commenced farming in the neighborhood of Bismarck. In the spring of 1870, having
had an attack of some lung disease, he came to Minnesota and was engaged in
lumber yards at Stillwater, but a few months later he moved to St. Paul and was
engaged as chainman by a party of Government surveyors. This kind of business
recuperating his health and being agreeable to him, he continued to follow it
seven years in one capacity or another until he rose to be superintendent in
charge of the party. The north shores of Lake Superior, the White Earth
reservation, the Red River valley, and the Leach Lake reservation were all the
scenes of his labors. In 1877 he gave up his wandering and came to Meeker
county, where he had settled, or rather bought a farm and worked it between his
surveying expeditions. Here he remained until 1880, when he accepted the
superintendency of the “Nobles county farm,” of George I. Seney, of New York,
but the next year transferred his services to the executors of the Horace
Thompson estate in the same capacity. For three years he managed one of their
farms, and then came back here and has remained ever since.

Mr. Taylor was married May 3, 1881, to Miss Fina Shuart, a native of Geauga
county, Ohio, and daughter of William and Mary Ann Shuart, and by this union
there have been three children – George S., Wilford B., and Marion.

In his views Mr. Taylor is entirely free politically, and independent of party
lines. He was elected to the office of town clerk in the spring of 1888, and
still holds that office.

Additional Comments:
Extracted from 
Illustrated Album of Biography
Meeker and McLeod Counties, Minnesota
1888


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