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Rh emigrated to Pennsylvania. He settled in Bucks county, which he represented in the first assembly of the province, and after the arrival of William Penn he became a member of the council, and con- tinued a councillor till the time of his death. He also held the office of registrar-general, removing to Philadelphia from Chester county, where he had for some time resided and held a commission as justice of the peace. He published " Compendium trium linguarum" (1679).

TAYLOR, Edward, clergyman, b. in England in 1642 ; d. in Westfield, Mass., 29 June, 1729. He began his education in England with the in- tention of following the ministry, left that country on account of measures that were taken against non-conformists, and on his arrival in Massachu- setts in 1668 entered Harvard, where he was graduated in 1671. He was invited to become minister to the people of Westfield, and arrived there on 3 Dec, 1671, but, owing to the insecu- rity of that frontier settlement and the small nuniber of its inhabitants, the church was not or- ganized till 27 Aug., 1679. He performed the duties of minister there, and for much of the time those of physician also, until his death. He left several manuscript volumes, including a "Com- mentary on the Four Gospels," " Christographia. or a Discourse on the Virtues and Character of Christ," and poems in English and in Latin.

TAYLOR, Edward Thompson, missionary, b. in Richmond, Va., 25 Dec, 1793 ; d. in Boston, Mass., 6 April, 1871. He was left an orphan in infancy, taken away by a sea-captain when seven years old, and trained as a sailor, in which call- ing he passed his early life. In 1819 he became a minister of the Methodist Episcopal church. About 1830 he became a Bethel missionary in Bos- ton. He served as chaplain on the frigate " Mace- donian," which took supplies to the famishing Irish in 1827, and delivered addresses in Cork and Glasgow. "Father Taylor," as he was called, mingled nautical terms and figures in his dis- courses, and by his wit, pathos, and imagination controlled the moods and wrought upon the feel- ings of his hearers in a remarkable degree.

TAYLOR, George, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. in Ireland in 1716 ; d. in Easton, Pa., 23 Feb., 1781. He is said to have been the son of a clergyman and to have received a liberal edu- cation and begun the study of medicine, which he abandoned in order to emigrate to this country in 1736. Leaving his home clandestinely and without money, he took passage as a redemptioner, and on his arrival at Phila- delphia was bound to an iron-manufacturer at Durham, Pa., for a term of years. He worked as a clerk, in- stead of at common labor, and when his employer died, several years later, he married the widow, and became proprietor of the works, which prospered un- der his direction. Removing to Northampton coun- ty, where he established a large iron-mill, he was soon called to take part in public affairs as a mem- ber of the provincial assembly that met at Philadel- phia on 15 Oct., 1764. He was appointed on the com- mittee on grievances, and engaged effectively in the debate on the revision of the charter. He was re- elected for each year till 1770, taking an active part in the discussions, and after that applied himself to his business, which proved unprofitable in the new situation, holding only the offices of county judge and colonel of militia. Returning to Durham, he was again sent to the provincial assembly in 1775, and was placed on the committee of safety. He was a member also of committees on grants of the crown and military preparations and of the one that was appointed to draw up instructions for the delegates to the Continental congress. These in- structions, forbidding them to vote for separation, were revoked in June, 1776, and because five of the delegates from Pennsylvania hesitated to agree to the Declaration of Independence, others were chosen in their place on 20 July. George Taylor was one of the new delegates. He took his seat in congress on the day of his election, and signed his name to the declaration with the other members when the engrossed copy of the instrument was ready, 2 Aug. He made a treaty in behalf of congress with several Indian tribes of the Susquehanna border at Easton, where he had resided in the neighborhood of his estates in Northampton county, and in March, 1777, he retired from congress.

TAYLOR, George H., physician, b. in Williston, Vt., in 1821. He was graduated at the New York medical college in 1852, studied the Swedish treatment, developed the massage-cure for nervous, gynecological, and other classes of diseases, and invented mechanical massage, with apparatus for expanding the chest, lifting the contents of the pelvis, kneading the abdomen, and transmitting mo- tor energy. Dr. Taylor is the author of "Exposition of the Swedish Movement-Cure " (New York, 1860) ; " Paralysis and Diseases of the Nerves, and the Remedial Use of Transmitted Motor Energy " (1872); "Health for Women " (1880): "Massage" (1884) ; " Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics " (1884) ; and " Massage ; Mechanical Processes " (1887). — His brother, Charles Fayette, surgeon, b. in Williston, Vt., 25 April, 1827, was graduated at the medical department of the University of Vermont in 1856, and settled in New York city, devoting himself to the specialty of orthopedy. He founded the New York orthopedic dispensary and hospital in 1866, and was surgeon there till 1876. In 1867 he was appointed consulting orthopedic surgeon to St. Luke's hospital. Dr. Taylor is the inventor of an antero-posterior spinal apparatus, and other contrivances for the correction of spinal deviations consequent upon Pott's disease and angular and lateral curvature of the spine ; a long counter-extension hip-splint for disease of the hip-joint; a jointed supporting splint for the recovering stage of hip-disease and for other purposes; and various apparatus for the correction of club-foot and other deformities of the feet and legs, and others for promoting the development of certain muscles or groups of muscles by means of local exercise ; also of an osteoclast and a genuclast. He received medals for his inventions at the international exhibitions of 1873 and 1876 at Vienna and Philadelphia, and was elected a corresponding member of the Royal society of physicians at Vienna. Besides monographs on the Swedish treatment in the New York medical journals, he published a volume on the " Theory and Practice of the Movement-Cure " (Philadelphia, 1861). He is the author of many medical papers,' the chief of which are those on " Synovitis of the Knee-Joint," " Emotional Prodigality," and " Bodily Conditions as related to Men-