Brief Life History of James Abraham
When James Abraham Taylor was born in May 1867, in Hart, Kentucky, United States, his father, Abraham James Taylor, was 54 and his mother, Nancy Alexander, was 42. He married Dorinda Allen Wilson on 27 October 1891, in Jeffersonville Township, Clark, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Magisterial District 2 Horse Cave, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Uno, Hart, Kentucky, United States in 1920. He died on 5 February 1942, in Horse Cave, Hart, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 74, and was buried in Horse Cave, Hart, Kentucky, United States.
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- James Taylor, "United States Census, 1900"
- Legacy NFS Source: James A Taylor - birth: 15 May 1867; Seymour, Hart, Kentucky, United States
- James A Taylor, "Indiana Marriages, 1811-2019"
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1868 · Impeach the President!
Caused by many crimes and breaking the Tenure of Office Act, Many Senators and House Representatives became angry with President Johnson and began discussions of his Impeachment. After a special session of Congress, the Articles of Impeachment were approved by the House and then the Senate. Making Andrew Johnson the first President to be Impeached.
1868 · The Fourteenth Amendment
As one of the Reconstruction Amendments, the Fourteenth Amendment addresses the rights and protections that all citizens of the United States have. The amendment also limits actions of state and local officials in all states.
1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
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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