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"Robert J. Taylor is a son of Tarpley and Lydia (SECREST) Taylor, and was born in Warren County, Ind., June 26, 1835. His parents were both reared in Fleming County, Ky., and when young immigrated to Indiana. In 1845 they moved to Iowa, where the father died in 1855 and the mother in 1872. Their family consisted of seven sons and three daughters, one of each now deceased.

Our subject passed his life from the age of ten until maturity in Iowa upon the farm, remaining with his mother two years after the death of his father. After 1857 he farmed ten years in Franklin County, Kas., and then located upon his present farm nine miles east of Huntsville, where he has a farm of 135 acres, forty-two being in orchard. He is an extensive fruit grower, and possesses over 4,100 fruit trees, raising some of the finest fruit in this region.

In 1858 he married Isabella KAY, a native of Preston, Lancashire, England, who was born in 1839, and was brought to America at the age of five years by her parents. Her youth was principally spent in Providence, R.I., and Wisconsin. Mrs. Taylor is the mother of the following children: Eliza J. (deceased), Tarpley (now in Mexico), Lydia E. (deceased), John, Charles H., Joseph W. and Amanda (twins), Dick, Francis and an infant deceased.

Mrs. Taylor is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Masonic fraternity and a highly respected citizen, in politics working with the Democrats. Besides his other property he owns twenty acres on Crystal Mountain near the crystal upheaval." (Goodspeeds History of NW AR…)


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