J. Isaiah Taylor, a member of
the contracting firm of Baker and Taylor of Sharon, was born in
Lackawannock township of Mercer County on the 22nd of March, 1851, a son
of John and Elizabeth (Bailey) Taylor, both of whom were born in
Manchester, England. Coming to this country in their early lives,
they were married in Sharon, Pennsylvania and when their son J. Isaiah was
about five years of age, they moved to Wisconsin and spent the remainder
of their lives in Crawford County, that state.
As his parents were farming people, J. Isaiah Taylor was
reared to the life of an agriculturalist, but when he had attained the age
of twenty-six years he left the farm and during fourteen years thereafter
was associated in business as a florist. Returning from the west he
arrived in Sharon on the 9th of January, 1975, and with the exception of
one year spent in Maryland, his home has since been in this city or
Sharpsville, he having been in the employ for some time of George
Boyce, a
florist of Sharon, and of James B. Pierce, a representative of the same
business at Sharpsville. For six year succeeding this connection,
Mr. Taylor worked in a stone quarry; for three years he was a coal bank
engineer and mule driver for the firm of Dunham, Roberts and Company; for
two years worked as an engineer on a stone crusher, and during the past
three years, he has been prominently connected with the business life of
Mercer County as a contractor.
He married in Maryland, Mary Wonsetler, but she lived
only six years after their marriage. For his second wife, Mr. Taylor
wedded Miss Mary Limber, and their two children are
Walter and Louise. In politics he upholds the principals of the Democratic
Party.
Submitted by Diane
Kennedy
A
Twentieth Century History of Mercer County, PA, 1909, pages 934-935
