When Edward Newton Taylor was born on 20 June 1842, in Kentucky, United States, his father, John Alney Taylor, was 50 and his mother, Margaret Brown, was 40. He married Catharine Riley on 13 December 1866, in McLean, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Daviess, Kentucky, United States in 1850 and Calhoun, McLean, Kentucky, United States for about 40 years. He died on 20 June 1920, in McLean, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Kentucky, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
English, Scottish, and Irish: occupational name for a tailor, from Anglo-Norman French, Middle English taillour ‘tailor’ (Old French tailleor, tailleur; Late Latin taliator, from taliare ‘to cut’). The surname is extremely common in Britain and Ireland. In North America, it has absorbed equivalents from other languages, many of which are also common among Ashkenazic Jews, for example German Schneider and Hungarian Szabo . It is also very common among African Americans.
In some cases also an Americanized form of French Terrien ‘owner of a farmland’ or of its altered forms, such as Therrien and Terrian .
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