Logan County, West Virginia          Biography of Jesse Harwood TAYLOR-Logan Co.

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The History of West Virginia, Old and New
Published 1923, The American Historical Society, Inc.
Chicago and New York, Volume 111
Page 372

     Jesse Harwood Taylor first became interested in the coal industry
in Eastern Ohio, but for several years past has been located in Logan
County, as mine superintendent at Chauncey, on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad, near Omar Post Office.
     He was born November 10, 1877, at Hendysburg in Belmont Co., Ohio,
son of A.S. and Catherine (Ralston) Taylor. His mother was thirteen
years of age when her parents came from Ireland to the United States.
A.S. Taylor was of a Pennsylvania family, with an ancestry comingled of
English, Irish, Scotch and Welsh stocks. A.S. Taylor was very prominent
in public affairs in Belmont County, serving as recorder and as a
merchant at the time of his death. He was all through the Civil war,
though never wounded or captured, as a soldier in Company M of the Ninth
Ohio Regiment.
     Jesse Harwood Taylor acquired a common school education in Belmont
Co., finished a course at the St. Clairsville High School in 1899, and
for seven years was deputy county recorder under his father. He was also
deputy sheriff of the county for four years. For a time he was in the
plant of the United States Steel Company at Bridgeport, Ohio, and for
six years was connected with the Maher-Pursglove Coal Company in Belmont
Co. This company sent him to Chauncey, West Virginia, and when their
interests in this section were sold to the Middle Fork Mining Company,
owned by Dalton and Kelly, Mr. Taylor remained with the new management
as superintendent of mines in the Chauncey District.
     In 1899, at Uniontown, Ohio, Mr. Taylor married Sarah M.
Buffington, daughter of Robert and Bell C. (Cain) Buffington, her father
a native of Ohio, while her mother was born in West Virginia. Mr. and
Mrs. Taylor have two children, Elizabeth and Harwood. The latter is
attending school at Barboursville, Virginia. Elizabeth is the wife of
Henry Agee, who is a mine foreman at Micco in Logan County. The three
children of Mr. and Mrs. Agee, grandchildren of Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, are
H.T. Agee, Elizabeth Hollingsworth Agee and Robert Buffington Agee. Mr.
Taylor is a Presbyterian, and is a thirty-second Scottish Rite Mason and
Shriner and a member of the Elks.