Brief Life History of William Kendall
When William Kendall Taylor was born on 29 December 1826, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Amos Taylor, was 41 and his mother, Mary "Polly" Day, was 37. He married Delia Ann Brown Lyman on 19 September 1853, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Franklin, Massachusetts, United States in 1900. He died on 1 August 1921, in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States, at the age of 94, and was buried in Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States.
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- William R Taylor, "United States Census, 1870"
- William K. Tapler, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915"
- Mr. William Kendall Taylor, "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924"
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1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
1830 · The Oregon Trail
Many people started their 2,170-mile West trek to settle the land found by Louis and Clark. They used large-wheeled wagons to pack most of their belongings and were guided by trails that were made by the previous trappers and traders who walked the area. Over time the trail needed annual improvements to make the trip faster and safer. Most of Interstate 80 and 84 cover most of the ground that was the original trail.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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