I. C. Taylor Biography


	This biography appears on pages 1072-1073 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. V (1915) and was 
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				HON. I. C. TAYLOR. 

	Hon. I. C. Taylor, the period of whose residence in South Dakota 
covers more than a third of a century, is one of the foremost citizens 
of Egan, where he is now serving for the fifth term as mayor. His birth 
occurred in Blackhawk county, Iowa, on the 30th of October, 1857, his 
parents being Samuel S. and Margaret (Clark) Taylor, who were born, 
reared and married in Bedford county, Pennsylvania. They removed to 
Iowa in 1852 and purchased a farm in Blackhawk county, that state. In 
the fall of 1880 they came to South Dakota, Samuel S. Taylor buying a 
farm which adjoins the present town limits of Egan. He erected a 
commodious hotel building in Egan in 1881 and for about twenty years 
conducted a successful and popular hostelry. Our subject wrecked the 
structure in 1909. When Samuel S. Taylor passed away in Egan, in 1905, 
the community mourned the loss of one of its most esteemed and 
substantial citizens. His widow still survives and makes her home in 
Sioux Falls. 

	I. C. Taylor was reared in his parents, home in the Hawkeye state 
and acquired his education in the public schools. As a young man he 
clerked in his father,s hotel at Jesup, Iowa, and after coming to South 
Dakota was associated with his father in the hotel business at Egan for 
a number of years. In subsequent years Mr. Taylor has been successfully 
engaged in the real-estate business and in the breeding of registered 
shorthorn cattle. He is a heavy landowner in Moody county, owning 
several farms there, and also owns lands in Hamlin county, South 
Dakota, and in Minnesota, as well as city property in Los Angeles, 
California. A man of excellent executive ability and keen discernment, 
success has attended his business undertakings and he has long been 
numbered among the prosperous and heading citizens of his community. 

	In 1891 Mr. Taylor was united in marriage to Miss Carrie Keller, 
who was born, reared and educated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They 
have become the parents of seven children, as follows: Hortense, who is 
the wife of H. W. Farris, of Los Angeles, California; Lottie; Ethel; 
Edith; Marie; Nellie; and Natalie. The family has permanent residence 
in Los Angeles, where the daughters are being educated. 

	Mr. Taylor gives his political allegiance to the republican party 
and is now serving for the fifth term as mayor of Egan, his reelections 
standing in incontrovertible proof of his popularity and capability as 
city executive. He has instituted and inaugurated many movements of a 
beneficial nature and his administration has been characterized by 
progress, reform and improvement along various lines. A constantly 
broadening mind and social disposition have rendered him popular and he 
is well known among the best and most influential people of his 
community, who entertain for him the warm personal regard which is 
always given genuine worth.