Brief Life History of Joseph W
When Joseph W Taylor was born in 1863, in New London, Monroe Township, Howard, Indiana, United States, his father, James Bauckman Taylor, was 26 and his mother, Elizabeth Squires, was 20. He married Agnes C Sturgeon on 18 September 1886, in Howard, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Wisconsin, United States in 1870. He died about 1963, at the age of 101.
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- Joseph H Taylor in household of J R Taylor, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Taylor - Government record: birth-name: Joseph
- Joseph W Taylor, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1867 · The First Successful Typewriter is Invented
A patent was filed on October 11, 1867, on a new direct action typewriter. The patent was filed by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel Soule who had invented the prototype in Milwaukee.
1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded
The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.
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.
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