Born: Saratoga County, New York, 1815.
Died: Princeton, Illinois, 1913.
At the age of twelve years, Mr. Taylor left his parental home in Oneida County to make his own way in the world. He then had only twenty-five cents in money and but little education. In 1840 he united with the Congregational Church, but later left it and united with the M. E. Church. About 1851 he visited a brother whose home was near Buffalo. While there, he heard a Christian preacher, whereupon he declared that he had heard "the first gospel sermons." At once he and his wife accepted the common truth.
He came to Princeton, Illinois, in 1853. His profession was the practice of medicine, but when he was about fifty years of age he was set apart to the work of the ministry, in which he did excellent service. The church at Humboldt, Kansas, is a product of his work. Dr. Taylor was always actively identified with all of the co-operative missionary work of the church.