When Jacob Henry Taylor was born on 18 January 1860, in Lenoir City, Loudon, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Henry Taylor, was 44 and his mother, Sarah Vanover, was 28. He married Edia Mae Taylor in 1880. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Malheur, Oregon, United States in 1920 and Payette, Idaho, United States in 1944. He died on 15 February 1944, in Payette, Payette, Idaho, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Ontario, Malheur, Oregon, United States.
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The Homestead Act of 1862 gave each citizen 160 acres of land. The qualified applicants were required to build a home and cultivate the land for five years.
Historical Boundaries 1864: Idaho, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Boise, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Ada, Idaho Territory, United States 1890: Ada, Idaho, United States 1892: Canyon, Idaho, United States 1917: Payette, Idaho, United States
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
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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