Brief Life History of Benjamin Franklin
When Benjamin Franklin Taylor was born on 4 August 1805, in Pittsfield, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States, his father, Jesse Wright Taylor, was 21 and his mother, Lucy Parker, was 20. He married Ann Mennell on 8 November 1827, in Grafton, Lorain, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He died on 9 December 1889, in Levan, Juab, Utah, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- B Frankland Taylor, "United States Census, 1880"
- Franklin Taylor, "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013"
- Benjamin F. Taylor, "BillionGraves Index"
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1808
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
1812
War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
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.
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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