When Samuel William Taylor was born on 24 August 1862, in Cecil, Maryland, United States, his father, Lorenzo Dow Taylor, was 47 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Sidwell, was 28. He married Laura Rebecca Walker on 9 March 1893, in Airville, Lower Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Fawn Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States in 1880. He died on 6 November 1940, in Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Airville, Lower Chanceford Township, York, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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Statue of Liberty is dedicated.
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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