When George Shepard Taylor was born on 16 July 1860, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, his father, George Hamilton Taylor, was 30 and his mother, Anstis Elmina Shepard, was 29. He married Anna Christine Smoot on 9 February 1882, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. In 1880, at the age of 20, his occupation is listed as clerk in mill. He died on 16 January 1924, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Provo City Cemetery, Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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After discovery of gold in Gabriel's Gully, hundreds of miners and precious metal hunters flocked to New Zealand to be a part of the frenzy. This influx of people caused new settlements to pop up and different innovation techniques to begin. After a few years of steady success, the gold began to be more difficult to find. While some stayed, most of the prospectors left until most of the settlements, which they had founded, became Ghost Towns with only a few residents staying around.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Possible Related NamesGeorge Shepherd Taylor by Jeffrey S. Hardy See Diary George Shepherd Taylor was born on 16 July 1860 in Salt Lake City, Utah, to George Hamilton Taylor and Elmina Shepherd. At the age of eight, …
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