Caleb P. Taylor Biography

	This biography appears on page 760 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. I (1904) and was scanned, 
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	CALEB P. TAYLOR, one of the representative farmers and stock 
growers of Davidson county, is a native of the state of Wisconsin, 
having been born in Grant county, on the 25th of April, 1855 and being 
a son of C. and Nancy (Coombs) Taylor, of whose fourteen children 
eleven are living at the time of this writing. The educational 
advantages afforded the subject in his youth were limited, being 
confined to a somewhat irregular attendance in the district schools of 
a pioneer section of the Badger state, and he continued to assist in 
the work and management of the homestead farm until he had attained the 
age of twenty-two years, when he purchased a farm of three hundred and 
twenty acres, in Grant county, Wisconsin, and began operations on his 
own responsibility, while he has never wavered in his allegiance to the 
great fundamental industry of agriculture, which he has found worthy of 
his best efforts and through which he has attained definite success and 
independence. He continued to reside in his native state until the 
spring of 1900, when he came to South Dakota and purchased a farm of 
two hundred and forty acres, in Badger township, Davidson county, the 
place being well improved and one of the valuable rural estates of this 
section. He paid eighteen dollars an acre for the land, and its market 
value at the present time is forty dollars an acre. In addition to 
carrying on diversified agriculture Mr. Taylor is also prominently and 
successfully engaged in the raising of live stock of excellent grades. 
He is a staunch Republican in politics, is progressive and public 
spirited and has gained the confidence and good will of the community 
in which he resides. He and his wife are members of the Congregational 
church.  

	On the 18th of January, 1876, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage 
to Miss Izella Shanley, who was born in Grant county, Wisconsin, being 
a daughter of Thomas Shanley, and of this union have been born four 
children, namely: Florence, Halbert, Grace and Clyde.