BIOGRAPHIES: Hon. Charles S. TAYLOR, Barron, Barron County, WI

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Hon. Charles S. Taylor, editor of the Barron County "Shield," Barron, was 
born in Geneva, Wis., October 13, 1851, and is the eldest son of Henry H. 
and Martha E. (Emerick) Taylor, natives of New York, who came to Wisconsin 
in 1840.  Mr. Taylor's early life was passed on his father's farm in 
Marquette county, and he received his early education in the district 
school, the state university, and the Whitewater normal school.  In 1876 
he graduated from the law department of the state university, and came to 
Barron, where he entered upon the practice of his profession, which he 
continued until 1886.  He then relinquished his practice to give his 
attention almost exclusively to the management of the Barron Woolen Mills 
Company, which he established, and of which he is president.  In 1879 he 
purchased the Barron County "Shield," in company with Walter Speed, and 
they conducted it for three years, in the meantime establishing the Chetek 
"Alert."  The business was then divided and Mr. Speed now controls the 
Chetek "Alert," and Mr. Taylor the Barron County "Shield."  Mr. Taylor was 
appointed district attorney of Barron county by Gov. Luddington, to fill a 
vacancy, and was three times re-elected.  He was elected a member of the 
assembly in 1885, and re-elected in 1887.  In 1889 he was elected state 
senator in the Twenty-fourth district, which comprises Barron, Bayfield, 
Burnett, Douglas, Polk, Sawyer and Washburn counties, by a majority of 1,900.

Mr. Taylor was united in marriage August 22, 1874, at Oxford, Wis., with 
Miss Libbie, daughter of John and Isabel (Stewart) Crawford, who are of 
Scotch descent.  This union has been blessed with six children, four of 
whom are living, namely; J. Clarence, Herman H., Charles J. and Archie R.  
Mrs. Taylor is a member of the Presbyterian church.  Mr. Taylor is a member 
of Masonic Lodge No. 220, Barron.  Politically he is a leader in the 
republican ranks.

-Transcribed from the "Historical and Biographical Album of the Chippewa 
Valley Wisconsin, 1891-2", pages 485-486 .