BIO: Harrison TAYLOR, Huntingdon County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley: 
Comprising the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata and Perry, 
Pennsylvania, Containing Sketches of Prominent and Representative 
Citizens and Many of the Early Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. 
Runk & Co., 1897, page 293.
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  HARRISON TAYLOR, Todd, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Tod 
township, June 26, 1848, son of Isaac and Nancy (Elias) Taylor. Isaac 
Taylor is a farmer of that township; his wife is deceased.
  Harrison Taylor attended the school at Pleasant Grove, Tod township, 
commonly known as Taylorstown school, and kept in an old-fashioned log 
house. He was a school boy for only two months of each year, on account 
of ill health. After leaving school, he continued to work on the home 
place until he was twenty years old; he then left home, and worked two 
years of the farm of Eli Keith. He then rented the homestead from his 
father, containing 146 acres, and cultivated it for eight years, after 
which he rented another farm in the same township, which he has managed 
ever since. Mr. Taylor owns both arable and timber land in Tod 
township; from the latter he manufactures lumber. The farm which he 
bought is of 70 acre, so that he is farming 240 acres; the timber land 
is a tract of 84 acres. He manufactures his lumber at Greenland's saw-
mill, which he rents. Mr. Taylor also deals successfully in live stock. 
He is an active business man, full of enterprise and energy. In 1895, 
he built a store room, hall and dwelling, costing over $1,500. He is a 
member of Grange No. 444, P. of H.; of Mount Hor Lodge, No. 736, 
I.O.O.F., Cassville; of the P.O.S. of A., No. 366, Todd; of F. and 
A.M., Cromwell; and of Council No. 171, A.P.A., Todd. Mr. Taylor is a 
Republican. He is a genial and companionable person.
  The marriage of Harrison Taylor with Sarah, daughter of Nathan G. 
Horton, farmer, of Tod township, took place in 1876. Their children 
are: Charles, on the homestead; Seibert A.; and Roy. Mrs. Taylor died 
on the farm in 1892, from a paralytic stroke. Mr. Taylor and his family 
attend the Methodist Episcopal church, of which Mr. Taylor is a 
trustee.