When Edward Taylor was born on 1 January 1855, in Islington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Edward Grove Taylor, was 44 and his mother, Jane Baxter, was 36. He immigrated to Utah, United States in 1863.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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After three prior attempts to become a state, the United States Congress accepted Utah into the Union on one condition. This condition was that the new state rewrite their constitution to say that all forms of polygamy were banned. The territory agreed, and Utah became a state on January 4, 1896.
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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