Brief Life History of Joseph P
When Joseph P Taylor was born on 30 January 1897, in Kentucky, United States, his father, Simeon Doss Taylor, was 34 and his mother, Minerva E Rhoads, was 31. He married Florence Tucker on 31 May 1924, in Jefferson, Kentucky, United States. He lived in Beaver Dam, Ohio, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years and Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States in 1991. In 1924, at the age of 27, his occupation is listed as chauffer in Louisville, Jefferson, Kentucky, United States.
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- Joseph Taylor in household of S D Taylor, "United States Census, 1910"
- Joseph P Taylor, "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954"
- Joseph P Taylor, "United States Public Records, 1970-2009"
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World Events (8)
1898 · War with the Spanish
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 · Governor Shot
On January 30, 1900 Governor William Goebel of Kentucky was assassinated. He took a bullet to the chest, outside the Old State Capitol. He died on February 3, 1900.
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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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