Sacramento County Biographies

S. W. TAYLOR

Transcribed by: Nancy Pratt Melton

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LEE TOWNSHIP. 
Page 267.
 
	Lives twenty miles from Sacramento, and three miles from 
Cosumnes, his Post Office; was born in Pennsylvania in 1815; removed to Illinois 
in 1821, and lived there until 1827, when he went to Wisconsin, and made his 
home in that State until 1847; he then went to Texas, and resided there until 
1854. Mr. Taylor served as a volunteer during the Black Hawk War in 1832, and 
also in the Mexican War in 1848. He came to this State in 1854, and lived in Los 
Angeles County until 1856; he then came to this county, but afterwards, in 1859, 
went to Solano County, and then, subsequently, to Monterey County; he came back 
to this county in 1878. He was married in 1840 to Miss T. Davis, a native of 
Maryland; she died in 1851: he married again in 1853 to Miss Mary Knight, a 
native of Georgia, who died in 1875; he was married the third time, in 1877, to 
Mrs. Woods, a native of Ohio. Mr. Taylor is the father of sixteen children, 
eight of whom are living four sons and four daughters. 
 
Source: History of Sacramento County, California With Illustrations 1880 by 
Thompson & West.