DR. JAMES L. TAYLOR

TAYLOR, FINLEY, ELLIOTT, GARNER

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Date: 6/16/2011 at 15:08:11

TAYLOR, JAMES L., DR.,born near Hamilton, Butler Co., Ohio, July 17, 1824;chose the profession of medicine; read with Dr. Cyrus Faulkener, at Hamilton; he attended the Ohio Medical College at Cincinnati; in 1846, began practice in Alexandria, Mo.; continued but one year; the hardships encountered there were such as tend to strength inspire a determination to succeed in spite of the opposition or indifference of the world; moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; remained two years, in constant practice; thence to Columbus, Louisa Co.; spent one summer; he arrived at Ottumwa late in 1851; practiced four years; fall of 1855, discontinued his practice and engaged in the drug business; from a small and unpretentious beginning, trade rapidly developed, and his sales exceeded in value all others in this locality;when the B. & M.R. R. was completed to Ottumwa, he saw the advantages offered by the improved facilities of transportation, and opened a wholesale department; now has the largest trade, wholesale and retail, in druggists' supplies, books, stationery, etc., in the State;has always been prominently identified with the business interests of Ottumwa; was one of the founders of the Iowa National Bank, and has been considerably engaged in farming, stock-raising, etc.; he is a typical Western Asbury self-made man. Married Juliette A. Garner in May, 1846;she was born in Maryland; have five children --Emma ( wife of Robert Finley, of Ottumwa ), Jarrett Asbury,Clara, Charles O. and James G.; one daughter, Mollie E.,wife of W. D. Elliot, died Nov. 8, 1875.

History of Wapello Count, Iowa, containing A history of the County, its Cities, Towns, Etc., 1878, pages 596-7

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