In early life he taught school, then embarked in mercantile pursuits, in which he was not successful and he returned to teaching and farming. Sept. 18, 1856, he and his family left Lawrence county, Pa., with their horses and wagons and thirty days later arrived in Linn county, Ia., and located at Marion, where they engaged in farming. John Taylor died at Marion, Ia., in 1890, at the age of 88 years."
[From: HISTORY OF THE TAYLOR FAMILY: The Descendants of William and Ann (Wilson) Taylor of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; records gathered by Thomas M. Taylor, 1895; revised and added to by Thomas M. Stewart, 1925.]
In early life he taught school, then embarked in mercantile pursuits, in which he was not successful and he returned to teaching and farming. Sept. 18, 1856, he and his family left Lawrence county, Pa., with their horses and wagons and thirty days later arrived in Linn county, Ia., and located at Marion, where they engaged in farming. John Taylor died at Marion, Ia., in 1890, at the age of 88 years."
[From: HISTORY OF THE TAYLOR FAMILY: The Descendants of William and Ann (Wilson) Taylor of Lawrence County, Pennsylvania; records gathered by Thomas M. Taylor, 1895; revised and added to by Thomas M. Stewart, 1925.]
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