BIOGRAPHY: Henry TAYLOR, Mifflin County, PA

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The Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley, Comprising 
the Counties of Huntingdon, Mifflin, Juniata, and Perry, Pennsylvania.
Chambersburg, Pa.: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897, Volume I, pages 574 & 577.

  HENRY TAYLOR, Reedsville, Mifflin county, Pa., was born on the old homestead 
at the head of Tea creek, in Brown township, Mifflin county, November 24, 1825.  
He is a son of Henry and Priscilla (Turbett) Taylor, and a descendant of Robert 
Taylor, who in 1754 took out warrants for a tract containing 3,000 acres of 
land, part of which is still in the possession of the family.  Matthew Taylor, 
son of Robert, married Mrs. Sarah (Sample) Mayes, a widow, and had sons:  
Robert;  John;  Henry;  and Sample.  Their third son, Henry Taylor, married 
first Ann McNitt;  she died, and he married Rosanna McFarlane, who also died, 
both her sons dying while very young.  Henry Taylor's third wife was Priscilla 
Turbett, and their children are:  Sarah Jane (Mrs. Samuel Laird), of Juniata 
county, has two children;  Anna (Mrs. James Kyle), has three children;  Henry;  
Priscilla (Mrs. William Thompson), of Centre county, died leaving one son;  
Matthew B., married Eliza Jane Means, has two children living;  and James, 
married Nancy Hughes, and has five children.
  Henry Taylor, Jr., was educated in the public school near his home in Brown 
township, and at the Tuscarora Academy, in Juniata county, Pa., under the care 
of Prof. Wilson.  His school days over, he continued to reside on the farm with 
his parents until he attained the age of twenty-five.  His life-long business 
has been the cultivation of the ground.  For many years he was engaged in 
farming the homestead;  but in 1884, he bought from J. Ferren Mann the land 
which had been the Norris homestead, upon which he now resides.  He is a skilful 
farmer, and has been very successful, but has now retired from active business, 
and is enjoying his laboriously earned and well-merited repose.  He adheres to 
the Republican party, and is always interested in the political affairs of his 
neighborhood.  Mr. Taylor is a liberal and public-spirited gentleman, willingly 
co-operating with his fellow citizens in any laudable measure.
  Henry Taylor was married, October 8, 1850, to Priscilla Ann Kyle, daughter of 
Joseph and Janet (McFarlane) Kyle.  Their children are:  William Henry, married 
Rhoda Henry, has three children;  Joseph Charles, married Lula Spear, has three 
children, and the family reside at Albany, Shackelford county, Tex.;  and James, 
married Elizabeth Taylor, and has three children.  Mrs. Priscilla Ann Taylor 
died January 31, 1869, aged about forty-five years.  Mr. Taylor married again, 
January 15, 1874;  his second wife was Mary A. Johnson, widow of James Johnson, 
of Centre county, Pa.;  by this marriage there is one child, George D., born 
February 21, 1875.  Mr. Taylor and his family are members of the Presbyterian 
church at Reedsville.