Sutter-Yuba County Biographies

CLYDE O. TAYLOR

Transcribed by: Kathy Sedler

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            Another establishment in Marysville that has come to enjoy an 
enviable popularity, due in part to its real usefulness to the community, is the 
well-equipped Electric Hospital at 224 E Street, owned by Clyde O. Taylor, and 
F. E. Ware.  Mr. Taylor is a Hoosier who has more than made good in California.  
He was born at Ora, in Pulaski County, Ind., on May 2, 1882, the son of Levi and 
Maretta (Snyder) Taylor, the former a native of Indiana and the latter of Ohio.  
The father and mother, with three sons and a daughter, came West in November, 
1899, first reaching Ashland, Ore.; and the day before Christmas of the same 
year they arrived in Marysville.  The father came for his health.  The climate 
did not agree with him, however, and so the family and he returned East, where 
he died about two years later.
            Our subject, having seen something of the attractions both of the 
Golden State and of Marysville, returned here in 1901, and secured employment in 
the bicycle shop of W. R. Brown; and he also worked in the Marysville Laundry.  
His wages were small � one dollar per day � and he had to pay for his board and 
lodging out of that.  He worked at night in the Marysville Theater, receiving 
fifty cents a night.  Later he secured work in an electrical shop, and still 
later he was in business for himself.  Then he was a moving-picture operator in 
Marysville.  In 1905 he went to Portland and ran slides for the illustrated 
lectures of the Medical and Dental Associations at the Lewis and Clark Fair; and 
for nine months, or from the autumn of 1908 through much of 1909, he ran a 
motion-picture theater in Redding, called Dreamland Theater.
            In 1911, Mr. Taylor was united in marriage with Miss Bessie Brockus, 
a native of Tennessee.  For five years thereafter he worked at the jeweler�s 
trade under Joe Karoly, the Marysville jeweler.  He then established the Taylor 
Auto Delivery, and was in the transfer business for a year; and for the past 
seven years he has operated his Electrical Hospital.  He provides motor armature 
winding, and is agent for the U. S. L. storage battery, and the Robert Bosch 
magneto, a German product and one of the best in the market.  He specializes in 
electrical equipment, and having been mechanically inclined since he was a boy, 
he does well.  He helped to deliver the first auto that came into the Sacramento 
Valley, called the Orient Buckboard, made in Massachusetts.  For seven years he 
was a member of the Marysville fire department; he was foreman of the hose, then 
assistant engineer, and then chief engineer, and served as electrician of the 
department.  He has a fine collection of curios, including a gold scale used by 
Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California.  He also has a fine collection 
of outdoor views, being an expert amateur photographer.
            Mr. Taylor is very prominent in fraternal circles.  He is a member 
of Corinthian Lodge No. 9, F.&A.M.; Washington Chapter No. 13, R.A.M.; 
Marysville Council NO. 3, R.&S.M.; and Pyramid No. 3, A.E.O.S., all of 
Marysville.  He is a member and Past Grand in Oriental Lodge No. 45, I.O.O.F., 
and with his wife is a member of the Rebekahs; and is also a member of Court 
Pride No. 34, Foresters of America.  He served in Company D, 2nd Regiment, 
N.G.C., serving with the company at the San Francisco earthquake and fire in 
1906, and continuing almost six years in the company, until they disbanded. 
 
History of Yuba and Sutter Counties, Historic Record Company, Los Angeles, 1924
p. 1280-1281