John Taylor    

JOHN TAYLOR, farmer, post-office Sandy Lake, was born August 4, 1821, in New Jersey, to Thomas and Anna (Elick) Taylor, the father being a native of England and the mother of New Jersey. The parents both died in New Jersey, and the father was a carpenter by trade. They had six children: John, Hugh E., Mary, Eli, Ufamy, married Isaiah Bell, and Maurice H., painter. The parents attended the Lutheran Church. Our subject was educated in the common schools. His father died when he was eighteen years old, and he had to work to support the family. They drove from New Jersey, and a part of the wagon and the buggy in which they came is yet in their possession. In 1856 he came to Mercer County and bought about eighty-five acres, then in the woods. He erected a log cabin, a portion of which now stands. He has since built good frame buildings. In 1848 he married Susan, a daughter of David Heggar, of New Jersey. By this union he has one child, Isabella, who married William Bailey, a physician of East Liverpool, Ohio. He assisted in the defense of his country by hiring a substitute in the late war. Mr. Taylor manages his own farm, and is a quiet, unassuming man, who attends strictly to his own business, pays his honest debts and enjoys the fruits of his early days’ labor.

History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania : its past and present : including its aboriginal history, its early settlement and development, a description of its historic and interesting localities, sketches of its boroughs, townships and villages, neighborhood and family histories, portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, statistics, etc. : also, a condensed history of Pennsylvania. Chicago, Ill.: Brown, Runk & Co., 1888, page 1067.  Read this book on line - Free Trial  Search Hundreds of 1880s-1890s Pennsylvania County History Books for biographies and historical information on your ancestors.  View the book page images on line and print them out for your genealogy file!  Free Access to the old history books - plus birth & death records, census images and ALL other records at ancestry.com.