When Benjamin Baker Taylor was born on 30 March 1812, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States, his father, Matthew Spencer Taylor, was 23 and his mother, Mary Kimbrough Baker, was 16. He married Mary Ann Duncan on 25 July 1835, in Bourbon, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Callaway, Callaway, Missouri, United States in 1850 and Shelby, Illinois, United States in 1860. He died on 7 August 1887, in La Monte, Pettis, Missouri, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in La Monte Cemetery, La Monte Township, Pettis, Missouri, 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.
Historical Boundaries: 1827: Shelby, Illinois, United States
"The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the ""British Band"", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis."
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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