Lawyer, banker, insurance agent and in 1936 appointed postmaster of Mobile. One reference says he was acting postmaster from 1940-59. Mobile Register, Jan. 24, 1936, states that he was appointed by Postmaster General J.A. Farley on the recommendation of Congressman Frank W. Boykin.
The birth date is given in Genealogy of the Buck Family (Reading, Pennsylvania: Eagle Book and Job Press, 1913) by Elizabeth S. Richards, p. 149. The 1900 Mobile census indicates a birth of May 1888.
House of Representatives, State of Alabama (1965), p.249: House Resolution 24, page 160: Mourning the Death of William Buck Taylor.
Uncited reference: "Law degree, University of Virginia, 1909."
Mobile Register, Dec. 28, 1909: "William Taylor, who is a professor at the West Texas Military Academy at San Antonio and who came home for Christmas, left Sunday night with his father, General Manager R.V. Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio, for Washington but will return to Mobile before going back to Texas."
Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia (1910), vol. 3, p. 218: William B. Taylor, B. A., '09, is teaching in the West Texas Military Academy, at San Antonio, Texas.
He married November 8, 1911, Florence Jurey Davidson (some references say Florence B. Davidson). They returned to Mobile and in 1920 lived in a cottage at 913 Government Street, across the street from his parents' home.
He practiced in Mobile in the law office of Harry Pillans, Van Antwerp Building.
The birth date is given in Genealogy of the Buck Family (Reading, Pennsylvania: Eagle Book and Job Press, 1913) by Elizabeth S. Richards, p. 149. The 1900 Mobile census indicates a birth of May 1888.
House of Representatives, State of Alabama (1965), p.249: House Resolution 24, page 160: Mourning the Death of William Buck Taylor.
Uncited reference: "Law degree, University of Virginia, 1909."
Mobile Register, Dec. 28, 1909: "William Taylor, who is a professor at the West Texas Military Academy at San Antonio and who came home for Christmas, left Sunday night with his father, General Manager R.V. Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio, for Washington but will return to Mobile before going back to Texas."
Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia (1910), vol. 3, p. 218: William B. Taylor, B. A., '09, is teaching in the West Texas Military Academy, at San Antonio, Texas.
He married November 8, 1911, Florence Jurey Davidson (some references say Florence B. Davidson). They returned to Mobile and in 1920 lived in a cottage at 913 Government Street, across the street from his parents' home.
He practiced in Mobile in the law office of Harry Pillans, Van Antwerp Building.
Lawyer, banker, insurance agent and in 1936 appointed postmaster of Mobile. One reference says he was acting postmaster from 1940-59. Mobile Register, Jan. 24, 1936, states that he was appointed by Postmaster General J.A. Farley on the recommendation of Congressman Frank W. Boykin.
The birth date is given in Genealogy of the Buck Family (Reading, Pennsylvania: Eagle Book and Job Press, 1913) by Elizabeth S. Richards, p. 149. The 1900 Mobile census indicates a birth of May 1888.
House of Representatives, State of Alabama (1965), p.249: House Resolution 24, page 160: Mourning the Death of William Buck Taylor.
Uncited reference: "Law degree, University of Virginia, 1909."
Mobile Register, Dec. 28, 1909: "William Taylor, who is a professor at the West Texas Military Academy at San Antonio and who came home for Christmas, left Sunday night with his father, General Manager R.V. Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio, for Washington but will return to Mobile before going back to Texas."
Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia (1910), vol. 3, p. 218: William B. Taylor, B. A., '09, is teaching in the West Texas Military Academy, at San Antonio, Texas.
He married November 8, 1911, Florence Jurey Davidson (some references say Florence B. Davidson). They returned to Mobile and in 1920 lived in a cottage at 913 Government Street, across the street from his parents' home.
He practiced in Mobile in the law office of Harry Pillans, Van Antwerp Building.
The birth date is given in Genealogy of the Buck Family (Reading, Pennsylvania: Eagle Book and Job Press, 1913) by Elizabeth S. Richards, p. 149. The 1900 Mobile census indicates a birth of May 1888.
House of Representatives, State of Alabama (1965), p.249: House Resolution 24, page 160: Mourning the Death of William Buck Taylor.
Uncited reference: "Law degree, University of Virginia, 1909."
Mobile Register, Dec. 28, 1909: "William Taylor, who is a professor at the West Texas Military Academy at San Antonio and who came home for Christmas, left Sunday night with his father, General Manager R.V. Taylor of the Mobile and Ohio, for Washington but will return to Mobile before going back to Texas."
Alumni Bulletin of the University of Virginia (1910), vol. 3, p. 218: William B. Taylor, B. A., '09, is teaching in the West Texas Military Academy, at San Antonio, Texas.
He married November 8, 1911, Florence Jurey Davidson (some references say Florence B. Davidson). They returned to Mobile and in 1920 lived in a cottage at 913 Government Street, across the street from his parents' home.
He practiced in Mobile in the law office of Harry Pillans, Van Antwerp Building.
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