When Orion Lindel Taylor was born on 14 April 1859, in Cecil, Maryland, United States, his father, Lorenzo Dow Taylor, was 44 and his mother, Rebecca Ann Sidwell, was 24. He married Mary W Paul on 19 April 1891, in Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Brick Meeting House, Cecil, Maryland, United States in 1880 and Calvert, Cecil, Maryland, United States for about 20 years. He died on 11 May 1925, in Oxford, Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Rosebank Cemetery, Calvert, Cecil, Maryland, United States.