When Romanzo Franklyn Taylor was born on 7 August 1843, in Spring Arbor, Township of Spring Arbor, Jackson, Michigan, United States, his father, Ira Crosby Taylor, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Ambrosia Foster, was 32. He married Amelia Currier in November 1866. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Burt, Kossuth, Iowa, United States in 1900 and Fenton, Kossuth, Iowa, United States in 1910. He died on 15 May 1920, in Algona, Kossuth, Iowa, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery, Algona, Kossuth, Iowa, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Historical Boundaries: 1854: Kossuth, Iowa, United States
Abraham Lincoln is assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
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 .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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