When James Monroe Taylor was born on 13 December 1818, in Pompey, Onondaga, New York, United States, his father, Richard Taylor, was 41 and his mother, Phoebe Leech, was 40. He married Charlotte Elizabeth Davis on 17 January 1840, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States for about 5 years and Brooklyn, Kings, New York, United States in 1865. He died on 22 May 1892, in New York City, New York County, New York, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Syracuse, Onondaga, New York, United States.
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With the Aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars the global market for trade was down. During this time, America had its first financial crisis and it lasted for only two years.
A village map dated April 8, 1819 shows sixty seven streets. The widest streets measured 60 feet wide while the narrowest street, Doughty Street, measured 20 feet wide.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
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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