Harold Sidwell Taylor

1 March 1896–10 April 1966 (Age 70)
Sylmar, Cecil, Maryland, United States

The Life Summary of Harold Sidwell

When Harold Sidwell Taylor was born on 1 March 1896, in Sylmar, Cecil, Maryland, United States, his father, Orion Lindel Taylor, was 36 and his mother, Mary W Paul, was 31. He married Elizabeth Louise Ford in 1919, in United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in District 9, Cecil, Maryland, United States in 1930 and Washington D.C., United States for about 5 years. He died on 10 April 1966, in Rising Sun, Cecil, Maryland, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Brick Meeting House Cemetery, Calvert, Cecil, Maryland, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harold Sidwell Taylor
1896–1966
Elizabeth Louise Ford
1900–1964
Marriage: 1919
Hazel Louise Taylor
1920–1966
Willard Warren Taylor
1922–1996
Doris Marie Taylor
1931–2019

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1919United States
    • Children

    (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (2)

    World Events (8)

    1898 · War with the Spanish
    Age 2
    After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.
    1900 · Gold for Cash!
    Age 4
    This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
    Age 20
    Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

    Name Meaning

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Tayloe
    Schneider
    Tayler
    Tailor

    Sources (10)

    • Harold S Taylor, "United States Census, 1940"
    • Harold Sidwell Taylor, "United States World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942"
    • Harold S Taylor in household of Richard Taylor, "United States Census, 1900"

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