BIO: Hugh S. TAYLOR, Centre County, PA 

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Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania: Including the 
Counties of Centre, Clearfield, Jefferson and Clarion: Containing Biographical 
Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Etc. 
Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1898.
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COMMEMORATIVE BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD, pages 102-103

HUGH S. TAYLOR.  One who makes trial of his talents in the profession of law is 
judged by the public upon his individual merits to a much greater degree than is 
a man who chooses a business career, and the young attorney whose name opens 
this sketch may well be proud of the estimate which the people of Centre county 
and of his native city of Bellefonte have placed upon his abilities.  As he 
possesses an abundant fund of energy, there is every reason to believe that 
their high hopes for his future will be fulfilled, and their confidence 
justified.
  Mr. Taylor  was born January 12, 1868, of Scotch-Irish parentage, and his home 
has always been in Bellefonte.  The late Hugh Taylor, his father, a native of 
County Monaghan, Ireland, on arriving in America at the age of twenty years, 
settled at Bellefonte, where his death occurred.  Our subject's mother, whose 
maiden name was Annie Starr, is a native of Bellefonte, born in 1848, and is 
still living.  As the eldest of a family of fourteen children, Mr. Taylor 
learned to depend upon his own exertions, and the value of thrift was early 
impressed upon him by the difficulties experienced in gaining a livelihood for 
himself, and securing the means to help those who looked to him for more or less 
assistance.  "Where there's a will there's a way," it is said, and he took a 
complete course in the Bellefonte High School, graduating in 1886; was then 
appointed to the West Point Military Academy by Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, M.C., but 
resigned, and in 1891 entered the Pennsylvania State College.  His legal studies 
were carried on under the supervision of Orvis, Bower & Orvis, and after his 
admission to the Bar in 1894 he remained with them a year and a half before 
starting in practice independently.
  Mr. Taylor has gathered around him many friends, and he has a lucrative 
business, his sound judgment on legal principles having been already 
demonstrated in his professional work.  As an advocate he has few equals of his 
age , and his oratorical gifts have brought him into prominence as a political 
campaigner for the Democratic party, of which he is a devoted supporter.  In 
June, 1896, he was elected chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of 
Centre County, was re-elected County Chairman in June, 1897; since February, 
1894, he has held the office of tax collector of the city of Bellefonte.  His 
abilities have a wide and varied scope; as he is a first-class mechanical 
engineer, having studied practical engineering and drafting at Pennsylvania 
State College, and at present he is superintendent of the Bellefonte Steam Heat 
and Gas Co.'s works.  
  Mr. Taylor was married was married November 8, 1894, to Kittie L. Bauer, 
second daughter of Nicholas Bauer, a merchant of Bellefonte, and they have two 
sons:  Hugh and Vincent Nicholas.
  Socially our subject is a member of the K. of G.E., and of the I. O. O. F., 
Centre County Lodge No. 156, and of Logan Fire Company No. 1.  For eleven years 
he has been in military service in Company B, 5th Penn. National Guards, and now 
is captain of the company.