Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Taylor, Hon. Caleb Newbold
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bristol Township


HON. CALEB NEWBOLD TAYLOR farmer, P.O. Bristol, Pa., is the 
seventh child of Anthony Taylor, who in 1802 married Mary, 
the tenth child of Caleb Newbold, of Springfield township, 
Burlington county, N. J.  He was born at Sunbury farm, on 
the Neshaminy, in Bristol township, July 27, 1814, and is 
still living in the same house after a lapse of 
seventy-three years.  He is a lineal descendant of Samuel 
Taylor, of the parish of Dore, county of Derbyshire, 
England, who sailed from Bristol, England, in the fly-boat 
Martha, in the year 1677, and landed where Burlington, N. 
J., now stands.  He was one of the proprietors of West New 
Jersey and owned one thirty-second of seven undivided 
nineteenth parts.  In the spring of 1678 he located his 
homestead farm in Chesterfield township, Burlington county, 
N. J., not far from where the town of Bordentown now stands. 
 It contained about 1500 acres, and it is a remarkable fact 
that of this land not an acre had passed out of the hands of 
his lineal descendants for a period of more than two hundred 
years.  To his son Robert he left 500 acres of the tract now 
known as Brookdale, and from him it came to his son Anthony, 
an ardent patriot in the revolution, and the grandfather of 
Caleb N.  Anthony Taylor, the son of Anthony, and the father 
of Caleb, was born at Brookdale farm in the year 1772, and 
was when quite young placed with John Thompson, an extensive 
merchant of Philadelphia, to be educated in business.  On 
attaining his majority he formed a partnership with his 
wife's brother, Thomas Newbold, and engaged very extensively 
in the East India trade, under the firm style of Taylor & 
Newbold.  In 1810 he retired from business, and removed 
permanently to "Sunbury farm," which he had previously 
purchased for a country seat.  He took great interest in 
agricultural pursuits, and at the time of his death was the 
largest land-owner in the county of Bucks.  Anthony Taylor 
had eleven children:  Robert, Anthony, Sarah, William, 
Edward Lawrence, Michael, Caleb Newbold, Mary Ann, Thomas, 
Emma L., and Franklin.  The subject of this sketch, Caleb 
Newbold Taylor, like his father and other ancestors, took 
great interest in agriculture, and is now the owner of about 
3000 acres of improved farm lands in the county.  He is a 
man of great force of character, and acknowledged ability in 
business affairs, and has also devoted much of his time to 
political life, and was for many years the acknowledged 
leader of his party in this county.  His political life 
commenced at the early age of eighteen, when in 1832 he was 
elected to represent the county of Bucks in the whig 
convention at Harrisburg.  After having repeatedly refused 
to accept political office, he in 1848 consented to become 
the nominee of his party for member of congress, the 
congressional district being then composed of the counties 
of Lehigh and Bucks, both of which were very largely 
democratic, and though he was defeated by a small majority, 
he ran more than a thousand votes ahead of the general 
ticket.  In 1850 he was again the candidate of the whig 
party, and was again defeated, though still running very 
largely ahead of the general ticket.  In 1852 he was again 
placed in nomination by the whig party, and was again 
defeated.  In 1866 he was the candidate of the republican 
party for member of congress and was elected by a handsome 
majority, Lehigh county not then being in the district, and 
in 1868 he was re-elected to serve a second term in 
congress.  He has represented Bucks county in nearly every 
national convention since he became of age.  He is president 
of the Farmers' National bank of Bucks county, at Bristol, 
of which his father, Anthony Taylor, was president at the 
time of his death in 1837.  Mr. Taylor has left his impress 
on the business and politics of Bucks county, and by his 
strict integrity and unswerving devotion to all he considers 
right, and for the best interests of the people, has won the 
confidence and esteem of all who know him.