BIO: Isaac 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 298.
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  ISAAC TAYLOR, Todd, Huntingdon county, Pa., was born in Tod township 
March 2, 1815, son of John and Eva (Barnett) Taylor. His grandfather, 
John Taylor, Sr., was a native of York county, Md., of Scotch 
extraction. He was a shoemaker; he came to Huntingdon county and settle 
in Tod township, over a hundred years ago, and bought a large tract of 
land, which he partially improved, building for his dwelling a log 
house with a plank floor, and a chimney constructed of mud and wood. He 
added barns and other improvements. John Taylor married in Maryland; 
his wife was Margaret Sword, a Marylander of German descent. They had 
five children: John; George; Jacob; Philip; and Eva. Mr. Taylor was a 
Whig. Both he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. Mrs. Taylor lived to the age of ninety-seven. Their eldest son, 
John, born before they left Maryland, passed his life on the homestead 
in Tod township; he was a farmer and stock raiser. He was first a Whig, 
afterwards a Republican. The wife of John Taylor, Jr., Eva Barnett, was 
a native of Bedford county, Pa. Their children were: Philip; Mary (Mrs. 
Peter Curfman); Susanna, wife of Rev. Martin De Forest, clergyman of 
the Methodist Episcopal church; Elizabeth (Mrs. John Curfman); Barbara; 
Margaret (Mrs. Abraham Elias); Abraham; Isaac; Jacob; and Simeon; all 
deceased except Mrs. De Forest and Isaac. Mr. Taylor was a worker for 
his church, the Methodist Episcopal; was class leader, steward, teacher 
and superintendent of the Sunday-school. Both parents died on the 
homestead.
  Isaac Taylor attended subscription schools in Tod township, and has 
been all his life a farmer, owning three farms in Tod township. Besides 
farming and stock raising, Mr. Taylor has had charge of a school in Tod 
township for four terms. He has also been supervisor, justice of the 
peace, tax collector and assessor; he served in the school board for 
forty years. He is a Republican.
  Isaac Taylor was married in Tod township, November 3, 1840, to Nancy, 
daughter of Henry Elias, a farmer of Tod township. Their children are: 
Maria (Mrs. Jacob Shumann), of Cassville; Rev. William M., of the 
Methodist Episcopal church, in Nebraska; Frank, farmer, of Tod 
township; Harris D., of Tod township; Dr. Z. B., of Orbisonia; Whitney 
H., M.D., of Broad Top City; Asbury B., farmer, of Tod township; Kate 
A., (Mrs. Monroe Miller), on the homestead; Mary T., wife of W. H. 
Johnson, M.D., of Robertsdale, Pa.; and John H., who died very young. 
Mrs. Taylor died in 1889, on the homestead. The family are connected 
with the Methodist Episcopal church; Isaac is class leader, trustee and 
steward of the church; has been Sunday-school teacher, and at present 
superintends the school. He is a kind hearted and useful man.