Heroic pioneer
When Sarah Taylor passed on, The Marin Journal said of her: "She was a woman of sterling worth, whose useful life may well teach many a lesson."
Sarah Taylor moved out west and helped her husband accomplish his many dreams and visions, all the while, raising a large family.
Around the 1860's, Sarah Taylor learned that young Chinese girls were being smuggled into San Francisco to be sold for unsavory reasons. Mrs. Taylor led an effort to board every single ship coming into San Francisco from the Far East. She arranged with the ships captains to release the Chinese slave's into her care, where she took them to the Chinatown Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) Mission for protection and rehabilitation.
When Mrs. Taylor's husband died in 1886, she did the best she could to hold on to the empire, but she lost the mill and the land around it in the economic panic of 1893, having to sell the land in 1895.
When Mrs. Sarah Taylor died, the new owners would not allow her body to be interred alongside her husband. Instead, her ashes were placed inside a columbarium in Oakland. This insensitive act was rectified almost a century later.
The Yerba Buena chapter of E Clampus Vitus, a fraternal organization dating to the Gold Rush spent twenty years wading thru red tape to right this wrong. In February, 2002, Sarah Taylor's ashes were finally interred where they were always meant to be; next to her dear husband.
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The following was posted in Marin County Tocsin on May 4, 1895; Sarah W.I. Taylor, et al, by Commor, to W.F. Goad, exc. et al, 2328.91 acres, near Rancho Tomales Bolinas and adjacent to Rancho Nicasio, with paper mill plant thereon $100,00.
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Mrs. Sarah I.W. Taylor Summoned by Death
San Rafael, April 5. Mrs. Sarah W.I. Taylor, widow of the late Samuel P. Taylor, the pioneer Pacific Coast paper manufacturer, and mother of Colonel Samuel Taylor, vice president of the Realty Syndicate of Oakland; William P. Taylor, Sheriff of Marin County; ex-Assemblyman Taylor, Frank L. Taylor, George M. Taylor and Mrs. J.S. Danner of Seattle, died tonight at the residence of Sheriff Taylor.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Providence, R.L., seventy-six years ago, and came to this State in 1855.
Published San Francisco Call
April 6, 1907
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Parents
James Irving
1808, Ireland
Mary Emma Irving nee Tripp
1808, Ireland
Siblings
Mary Irving
1831, Rhode Island
Catherine Irving
1834, Rhode Island
Isabella Irving
1836, Rhode Island
James Irving
1841, Massachusetts
Children
James Irving Taylor
1856 – 1916
Samuel Johnson Taylor
1857 – 1926
Edwin M Taylor
1858 – 1889
William Penfield Taylor
1860 – 1929
George M. Taylor
1861 – 1941
Frank L. Taylor
1863 – 1933
Mary May Isabell Taylor
1865 – 1932
Frederick Sproul Taylor
1868 – 1898
When Sarah Taylor passed on, The Marin Journal said of her: "She was a woman of sterling worth, whose useful life may well teach many a lesson."
Sarah Taylor moved out west and helped her husband accomplish his many dreams and visions, all the while, raising a large family.
Around the 1860's, Sarah Taylor learned that young Chinese girls were being smuggled into San Francisco to be sold for unsavory reasons. Mrs. Taylor led an effort to board every single ship coming into San Francisco from the Far East. She arranged with the ships captains to release the Chinese slave's into her care, where she took them to the Chinatown Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) Mission for protection and rehabilitation.
When Mrs. Taylor's husband died in 1886, she did the best she could to hold on to the empire, but she lost the mill and the land around it in the economic panic of 1893, having to sell the land in 1895.
When Mrs. Sarah Taylor died, the new owners would not allow her body to be interred alongside her husband. Instead, her ashes were placed inside a columbarium in Oakland. This insensitive act was rectified almost a century later.
The Yerba Buena chapter of E Clampus Vitus, a fraternal organization dating to the Gold Rush spent twenty years wading thru red tape to right this wrong. In February, 2002, Sarah Taylor's ashes were finally interred where they were always meant to be; next to her dear husband.
* * *
The following was posted in Marin County Tocsin on May 4, 1895; Sarah W.I. Taylor, et al, by Commor, to W.F. Goad, exc. et al, 2328.91 acres, near Rancho Tomales Bolinas and adjacent to Rancho Nicasio, with paper mill plant thereon $100,00.
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Mrs. Sarah I.W. Taylor Summoned by Death
San Rafael, April 5. Mrs. Sarah W.I. Taylor, widow of the late Samuel P. Taylor, the pioneer Pacific Coast paper manufacturer, and mother of Colonel Samuel Taylor, vice president of the Realty Syndicate of Oakland; William P. Taylor, Sheriff of Marin County; ex-Assemblyman Taylor, Frank L. Taylor, George M. Taylor and Mrs. J.S. Danner of Seattle, died tonight at the residence of Sheriff Taylor.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Providence, R.L., seventy-six years ago, and came to this State in 1855.
Published San Francisco Call
April 6, 1907
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Parents
James Irving
1808, Ireland
Mary Emma Irving nee Tripp
1808, Ireland
Siblings
Mary Irving
1831, Rhode Island
Catherine Irving
1834, Rhode Island
Isabella Irving
1836, Rhode Island
James Irving
1841, Massachusetts
Children
James Irving Taylor
1856 – 1916
Samuel Johnson Taylor
1857 – 1926
Edwin M Taylor
1858 – 1889
William Penfield Taylor
1860 – 1929
George M. Taylor
1861 – 1941
Frank L. Taylor
1863 – 1933
Mary May Isabell Taylor
1865 – 1932
Frederick Sproul Taylor
1868 – 1898
Heroic pioneer
When Sarah Taylor passed on, The Marin Journal said of her: "She was a woman of sterling worth, whose useful life may well teach many a lesson."
Sarah Taylor moved out west and helped her husband accomplish his many dreams and visions, all the while, raising a large family.
Around the 1860's, Sarah Taylor learned that young Chinese girls were being smuggled into San Francisco to be sold for unsavory reasons. Mrs. Taylor led an effort to board every single ship coming into San Francisco from the Far East. She arranged with the ships captains to release the Chinese slave's into her care, where she took them to the Chinatown Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) Mission for protection and rehabilitation.
When Mrs. Taylor's husband died in 1886, she did the best she could to hold on to the empire, but she lost the mill and the land around it in the economic panic of 1893, having to sell the land in 1895.
When Mrs. Sarah Taylor died, the new owners would not allow her body to be interred alongside her husband. Instead, her ashes were placed inside a columbarium in Oakland. This insensitive act was rectified almost a century later.
The Yerba Buena chapter of E Clampus Vitus, a fraternal organization dating to the Gold Rush spent twenty years wading thru red tape to right this wrong. In February, 2002, Sarah Taylor's ashes were finally interred where they were always meant to be; next to her dear husband.
* * *
The following was posted in Marin County Tocsin on May 4, 1895; Sarah W.I. Taylor, et al, by Commor, to W.F. Goad, exc. et al, 2328.91 acres, near Rancho Tomales Bolinas and adjacent to Rancho Nicasio, with paper mill plant thereon $100,00.
* * *
Mrs. Sarah I.W. Taylor Summoned by Death
San Rafael, April 5. Mrs. Sarah W.I. Taylor, widow of the late Samuel P. Taylor, the pioneer Pacific Coast paper manufacturer, and mother of Colonel Samuel Taylor, vice president of the Realty Syndicate of Oakland; William P. Taylor, Sheriff of Marin County; ex-Assemblyman Taylor, Frank L. Taylor, George M. Taylor and Mrs. J.S. Danner of Seattle, died tonight at the residence of Sheriff Taylor.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Providence, R.L., seventy-six years ago, and came to this State in 1855.
Published San Francisco Call
April 6, 1907
* * *
Parents
James Irving
1808, Ireland
Mary Emma Irving nee Tripp
1808, Ireland
Siblings
Mary Irving
1831, Rhode Island
Catherine Irving
1834, Rhode Island
Isabella Irving
1836, Rhode Island
James Irving
1841, Massachusetts
Children
James Irving Taylor
1856 – 1916
Samuel Johnson Taylor
1857 – 1926
Edwin M Taylor
1858 – 1889
William Penfield Taylor
1860 – 1929
George M. Taylor
1861 – 1941
Frank L. Taylor
1863 – 1933
Mary May Isabell Taylor
1865 – 1932
Frederick Sproul Taylor
1868 – 1898
When Sarah Taylor passed on, The Marin Journal said of her: "She was a woman of sterling worth, whose useful life may well teach many a lesson."
Sarah Taylor moved out west and helped her husband accomplish his many dreams and visions, all the while, raising a large family.
Around the 1860's, Sarah Taylor learned that young Chinese girls were being smuggled into San Francisco to be sold for unsavory reasons. Mrs. Taylor led an effort to board every single ship coming into San Francisco from the Far East. She arranged with the ships captains to release the Chinese slave's into her care, where she took them to the Chinatown Presbyterian (Church of Scotland) Mission for protection and rehabilitation.
When Mrs. Taylor's husband died in 1886, she did the best she could to hold on to the empire, but she lost the mill and the land around it in the economic panic of 1893, having to sell the land in 1895.
When Mrs. Sarah Taylor died, the new owners would not allow her body to be interred alongside her husband. Instead, her ashes were placed inside a columbarium in Oakland. This insensitive act was rectified almost a century later.
The Yerba Buena chapter of E Clampus Vitus, a fraternal organization dating to the Gold Rush spent twenty years wading thru red tape to right this wrong. In February, 2002, Sarah Taylor's ashes were finally interred where they were always meant to be; next to her dear husband.
* * *
The following was posted in Marin County Tocsin on May 4, 1895; Sarah W.I. Taylor, et al, by Commor, to W.F. Goad, exc. et al, 2328.91 acres, near Rancho Tomales Bolinas and adjacent to Rancho Nicasio, with paper mill plant thereon $100,00.
* * *
Mrs. Sarah I.W. Taylor Summoned by Death
San Rafael, April 5. Mrs. Sarah W.I. Taylor, widow of the late Samuel P. Taylor, the pioneer Pacific Coast paper manufacturer, and mother of Colonel Samuel Taylor, vice president of the Realty Syndicate of Oakland; William P. Taylor, Sheriff of Marin County; ex-Assemblyman Taylor, Frank L. Taylor, George M. Taylor and Mrs. J.S. Danner of Seattle, died tonight at the residence of Sheriff Taylor.
Mrs. Taylor was born in Providence, R.L., seventy-six years ago, and came to this State in 1855.
Published San Francisco Call
April 6, 1907
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Parents
James Irving
1808, Ireland
Mary Emma Irving nee Tripp
1808, Ireland
Siblings
Mary Irving
1831, Rhode Island
Catherine Irving
1834, Rhode Island
Isabella Irving
1836, Rhode Island
James Irving
1841, Massachusetts
Children
James Irving Taylor
1856 – 1916
Samuel Johnson Taylor
1857 – 1926
Edwin M Taylor
1858 – 1889
William Penfield Taylor
1860 – 1929
George M. Taylor
1861 – 1941
Frank L. Taylor
1863 – 1933
Mary May Isabell Taylor
1865 – 1932
Frederick Sproul Taylor
1868 – 1898
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