Taylor Family Papers, 1850-1904 (mostly 1865-1890)

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Collection Overview

Creator:

Taylor, Joseph D. (Joseph Danner) (1830-1899)

Title:

Taylor Family Papers

Repository:

Manuscripts Division

Permanent URL:

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hm50tr78v

Dates:

1850-1904 (mostly 1865-1890)

Size:

2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet

Storage Note:

ReCAP (scarcpxm): Box 1-2

Language:

English

Abstract: Contains miscellaneous nineteenth-century papers of several members of the Taylor family.

Collection Description & Creator Information

Scope and Contents

The collection contains correspondence of Joseph D. Taylor (grandfather of Robert Hill Taylor, Princeton Class of 1930) of Cambridge, Ohio, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (Hill) Taylor, from their marriage in 1866 to her death in 1887; correspondence with their children William and Gertrude; letters by Elizabeth Ann to her father, William Hill of Maine, and two of her commonplace books; an autograph album presented to Elizabeth Ann in 1850; a journal of a train trip from Trenton, N.J., to Washington, D.C., in 1865; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1859-1860); two letters (1868, 1889) by Rutherford B. Hayes to Joseph D. Taylor; and miscellaneous correspondence and documents of other members of the Taylor and Hill families.

Arrangement

Arranged in the following sections: Elizabeth Ann Hill Taylor, Joseph D. Taylor, Gertrude Taylor, William Hill Taylor, Caro M. Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Hill, newspaper clippings.

Collection Creator Biography:

Taylor

Joseph D. Taylor, grandfather of Robert Hill Taylor (Princeton Class of 1930) and a teacher and lawyer, served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio. During the Civil War, Taylor was a captain in the Eighty-Eighth Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

Collection History

Processing Information: Folder list written by Lisa Yankowitz ('13) in 2012.

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