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42 to &ldquo;Faust,&rdquo; both parts (Leipsic, 1881). After her husband's death she edited, with notes, his &ldquo;Dramatic Works&rdquo; (1880), and in the same year his &ldquo;Poems&rdquo; in a &ldquo;Household Edition,&rdquo; and brought together his &ldquo;Critical Essays and Literary Notes.&rdquo; In 1885 she prepared a school edition of &ldquo;Lars,&rdquo; with notes and a sketch of its author's life. After six years' labor in collecting and arranging the poet's extensive private correspondence, she completed, with Horace E. Scudder, the &ldquo;Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor&rdquo; (2 vols., Boston, 1884).

TAYLOR, Benjamin Cook, clergvman, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 24 Feb., 1801 ; d. in Bergen, N. J., 2 Feb., 1881. He was graduated at Princeton in 1819 and at the New Brunswick theological seminary in 1822, held various pastorates between 1825 and 1828, and from the latter year till the time of his death was pastor of the Reformed church at Ber- gen, the 200th anniversary of which he commemo- rated in a sermon in 1861. Besides this and other discourses, he published " Annals of the Classis and Township of Bergen " (1856). He received the degree of D. D. from Hobart in 1843. — His brother, Isaac Ebenezer, physician, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 25 April, 1812, was educated at Rutgers, and gradu- ated at the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in 1834. He was engaged in mer- cantile business in New York city from 1835 till 1839, then began practice, travelled and studied in Europe in 1840-'l, and after his return had charge for seven years, as attending physician, of cases of diseases of women in the Eastern, City. Northern, and Demilt dispensaries, in which he introduced a system of clinical instruction in his department. In 1851 he was elected physician to Bellevue hos- pital. In 1860 he suggested the establishment of a medical college in connection with the hospital, and in the following year Bellevue hospital medical college was incorporated and went into operation, with Dr. Taylor as its president and treasurer. In 1863, at his suggestion, an out-door department was organized in connection with the hospital. He resigned his professorship of obstetrics in 1867, but was elected emeritus professor, and continued in the presidency of the faculty. He was presi- dent of the medical board of Bellevue hospital from 1868 till 1876, when he ceased his labors as attending obstetrical physician. From 1860 till 1874 he was attending physician to Charity hospi- tal, and for the first two years was president of its medical board. As consulting physician, he is still connected with both hospitals. Since 1876 he has been obstetrical physician to the Maternity hospi- tal. He is vice-president of the American gyne- cological society. He was one of the originators of the " New York Medical Journal " and president of its association in 1869-'70. As early as 1839 Dr. Taylor suggested the hypodermic method of treatment by morphia and strychnia. He was the earliest American physician to use the speculum in diseases of women, publishing a paper on the subject in 1841. He was also the first to intro- duce the subject of uterine auscultation, and in 1843 edited Dr. Evory Kennedy's work on that diagnostic method. He has published original monographs on the symptoms and treatment of Addison's disease, the inhalation of chloroform as a remedy for regurgitation of the stomach, the non-shortening of the cervix uteri during gestation, the nature of placenta previa, the seat of disease in procidentia uteri, the mechanism of spontaneous inversion of the uterus, and on con- tracted and faulty pelves, and various other sub- jects connected with midwifery. — A son of Benjamin C, William James Romeyn, clergyman, b. in Schodack, Rensselaer co., N. Y., 31 July, 1828, was graduated at Rutgers in 1841, and at the theological seminary at New Brunswick in 1844, and licensed by the classis of Bergen in the latter year. He was pastor of the Reformed church at New Durham, N. J., in 1844-'6, then in Jersey City for three years, in Schenectady, N. Y., for about the same length of time, then of another church in Jersey City in 1852-'4, and after that of the 3d Reformed church of Philadelphia till 1862, when he became corresponding secretary of the American Bible society. He resumed the active work of the ministry in 1869, and from that year has had charge of a church in Newark, N. J. He presided over the general synod in 1871. From 1872 till 1876 he edited the " Christian Intelligencer," and attended the Presbyterian councils held in Philadelphia, Belfast, and London. The degree of D. D. was con- ferred on him by Rutgers in 1860. Dr. Taylor has written much for the religious press and published hymns, addresses, sermons, and tracts. He is the author of " Louisa, a Pastor's Memorial " (Phila- delphia, 1860) ; " The Bible in the Last Hundred Years " (1876) ; " Church Extension in Large Cities " (1880) ; and " On Co-operation in Foreign Missions " (1884).

TAYLOR, Bushrod Bust, naval officer, b. in Madison, Ind., 31 March, 1832 ; d. in Washington, D. C, 22 April, 1883. He entered the navy as an acting midshipman, 3 April, 1849, and was gradu- ated at the naval academy. 12 June, 1855. He was promoted to master on 16 Sept., lieutenant, 31 July, 1856, and served in the Paraguay expedition of 1859. He went to the naval academy as an in- structor in October, 1860, and assisted in the re- moval of the academy from Annapolis to Newport. From May to August, 1861, he served in the flag- ship "Colorado," in the Gulf squadron, on the blockade. He was in the supply and despatch steamer " Connecticut " in 1861-2, and was execu- tive of the steamer " Cimmerone " in James river and the South Atlantic blockade in 1862-3. He was promoted to lieutenant-commander, 16 July, 1862, served in the steamer " Ticonderoga," flag-ship of the West India squadron, in 1863, and commanded the steamer " Kanawha," in the Western Gulf squad- ron, until 28 Sept., 1865. He next served at the Philadelphia navy-yard in 1865-'6, and at the naval academy as an instructor in 1866-'9. He was com- missioned commander, 14 March, 1868, and had the steamer " Idaho," of the Asiatic squadron, in 1869. In this vessel he encountered the centre of a terrible typhoon, in which she was completely dismantled and became almost a total wreck. This was one of the worst storms, that was ever survived by any ship. He next commanded the " Ashuelot " on the same station, until January, 1872, served at the Philadelphia navy-yard in 1872, and in the bureau of yards and docks at Washington in 1872-4. He commanded the steamer " Wachusett " during the threatened war with Spain in 1874, was a member of the board of inspection in 1876, and at the Bos- ton navy-yard in 1876-'9. He was commissioned captain, 27 Oct., 1869, and had special duty at Wash- ington in 1880.

TAYLOR, Christopher, Quaker preacher, b. near Skipton, Yorkshire, England, about 1620 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., in April, 1686. He was a Puritan minister until he was converted to Quaker doctrines by the teachings of George Fox. He was a man of learning, and expounded his belief in different parts of England while pursuing the vocation of a teacher of the classics. After suffering Eersecution and imprisonment for his convictions he left his school at Edmonton, Middlesex, and