DAVID TAYLOR

TAYLOR, MCLAUGHLIN

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 7/16/2009 at 04:46:01

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

DAVID TAYLOR, farmer and stock dealer, S.12; P.O. Unionville; born in Holmes Co., Ohio, in 1825; removed to this county and this township in 1847; owns 120 acres of land, valued at $25 per acre. Married Miss Frances McLaughlin, daughter of Ed McL. who came to Appanoose in 1850 and died in 1876, age 75; his widow is still living at the advanced age of 81 years; they were married in 1851. She ws born in Virginia in 1833; they have four children - John J., Eli W., Maria E., and George Ralph. Democratic in politics; members of the M.E. Church; he is a member of A.F.&A.M. No. 119, Unionville. Was formerly engaged for a short time in the mercantile business with Robert Frost, at Hilltown, this county.