Tulare County Biographies

J. L. TAYLOR

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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The prosperous farmer and fruit grower of Three Rivers, Tulare county, Cal., 
whose career it is intended here briefly to refer to, is a native of Fallbrook, 
Tenn., born in 1846. In 1866, when he was twenty years old, he came to 
California and settled near Three Rivers and Lemon Cove and, having faith in the 
future of the state, he resolved to grow up with it, deserving his share in its 
prosperity.
It was at ranch work for others that J. L. Taylor was employed until 1893. He 
became known as a hard and steady worker and as a man who saved his money, and 
in the year mentioned he was able to buy one hundred and sixty-five acres of 
land, on which he has been successful with fruit and grain. It was in the year 
1893, the year in which he started for himself, that he married Miss Louise 
Elizabeth Myrten, a .native daughter of California, who in 1904 bore him a son, 
Edward, who is engaged with his father in conducting the ranch and developing 
the fruit and nursery business. Mr. Taylor has always been too busy to take much 
practical part in political work, but as a citizen he has performed his duties 
with the ballot, voting always for such men and measures as in his opinion 
promised most and best for the general good. He has never petitioned for nor 
accepted public office. Fraternally he affiliates with the Lemon Cove 
organization of Woodmen of the World. His father is living, retired from the 
activities that once made him a factor in the uplift and advancement of the 
community.
 
History of Tulare and Kings Counties, California with Biographical Sketches - 
Los Angeles, Calif., Historic Record Company, 1913, pp. 622