When Wesley Erastus Taylor was born on 25 April 1882, in Spring Creek, Parker, Texas, United States, his father, William Hudson Taylor, was 26 and his mother, Gillette Louellen Elvira Marenda Fairchild, was 23. He married Aurelia Elizabeth Teague on 9 February 1909, in Webb, Texas, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1935 and Supervisorial District 2, Maricopa, Arizona, United States in 1940. He died on 19 November 1960, in Wickenburg, Maricopa, Arizona, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Wickenburg, Maricopa, Arizona, United States.
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Historical Boundaries 1884: Yavapai, Arizona Territory, United States 1912: Yavapai, Arizona, United States
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A short-lived Cabinet department which was concerned with controlling the excesses of big business. Later being split and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor splitting into two separate positions.
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 .
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