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Rh two years, after which he returned to his former church at Staunton, of which he again took leave in 1873, on being appointed by the mission board of the Southern Baptist convention missionary to Rome, Italy. Pie was co-editor of the " Christian Review " for two years, and since 1876 he has been one of the editors of " II Seminatore," a monthly Baptist magazine published in Rome. The degree of D. D. was given him by Richmond college and the University of Chicago in 1872. His publica- tions include "Oakland Stories" (4 vols., New York, 1859-65); "Costar Grew" (Philadelphia, 1869) ; " Roger Bernard, the Pastor's Son " (1870) ; and " Walter Ennis," a tale of the early Virginia Baptists (1870).

TAYLOR, James Brainerd, clergyman, b. in Middle Haddam, Conn., 15 April, 1801; d. in Hampden Sidney, Va., 29 March, 1829. He be- came a merchant's clerk in New York city after receiving a common-school education, but at the age of eighteen determined to become a minister, and entered the preparatory academy at Lawrence- ville, N. J. He engaged in missionary work while in school and college, and gained many converts. After his graduation at Princeton in 1826 he studied at Yale divinity-school, taking an active part in the revivals in the neighborhood and in the south, whither he removed on account of failing health. His faith and ardor are commemorated in a " Memoir " by John H. and Benjamin H. Rice, who were hear him in his last days at the Theo- logical seminary of Virginia (New York, 1833). — His brother. Fitch Waterman, author, b. in Middle Haddam, Conn., 4 Aug., 1803 ; d. in Brook- lyn, N. Y., 23 July, 1865, went to New York city at the age of fifteen with the intention of fol- lowing a mercantile career, but afterward decided to enter upon the Christian ministry. He was fraduated at Yale in 1828, received orders in the rotestant Episcopal church, and was minister of a parish in Maryland till 1841, when he was ap- pointed to a chaplaincy in the navy. At the time of his death he was the senior chaplain in the service. He published, under the title of " The Flag-Ship" (New York, 1840), a narrative of a voyage around the world in the frigate " Colum- bia," and under that of " The Broad Pennant " (1848) an account of a cruise in the M Cumberland " and of naval operations in the Mexican war.

TAYLOR, James Wickes, author, b. in Starkey, Yates co., X. Y., 6 Nov., 1819. He was educated there and in Ohio, and in 1838 was graduated at Hamilton college. He was admitted to the bar of New York and Ohio, practised in both those states, and resided in the latter from 1842 till 1856, when he removed to St. Paul, Minn. He was a member of the Ohio constitutional convention of 1849-'50, secretary of the commission to revise the judicial code of that state in 1851-2, and was librarian of Ohio in 1852-6. During the civil war, and for several years afterward, Mr. Taylor was special agent of the U. S. treasury, being charged with making inquiries into the reciprocal relations of trade and transportation between the United States and Canada. He was appointed U. S. consul at Winnipeg, Manitoba, 14 Sept., 1870, which post he has held ever since. He has engaged largely in journalism, published the Cincinnati " Signal " in 1847, and is the author of " History of the State of Ohio : First Period, 1620-1787 " (Cincinnati, 1854) ; " Manual of the Ohio School System " (1857) ; " Railroad System of Minnesota and Northwestern Connections " (St. Paul, 1859) ; " Reports to Treas- urv Department on Commercial Relations with Canada " (Washington, 1860, 1862, and 1868) ; " Al- leghania, or the Strength of the Union and the Weakness of Slavery in the Highlands of the South " (St. Paul, 1862); "Forest and Fruit Cul- ture in Manitoba" (Winnipeg, 1882); pamphlets relating to the Indian question in relation to the Sioux war of 1862-'3 (St. Paul); and, with John R. Browne, " Mineral Resources of the United States " (Washington, 1867).

TAYLOR, John, senator, b. in Orange county, Va., in 1750 ; d. in Caroline county, Va., 20 Aug., 1824. He was graduated at William and Mary college in 1770, became a planter, and did much to improve methods of cultivation and extend the knowledge of agriculture. When Richard Henry Lee resigned from the U. S. senate, Taylor was ap- pointed to the vacant seat. He entered the senate on 12 Dec, 1792, and was elected for the term that began in the following March, but resigned in 1794. He was a presidential elector in 1797, and in 1803 again served in the senate for the two months that elapsed between the death of Stevens T. Mason and the election of his successor. He was elected a senator two years before his death, taking his seat on 30 Dec, 1824. He shared the political opinions of Thomas Jefferson, and was the mover in the Virginia house of delegates of the resolutions of 1798. He published " An Inquiry into the Princi- ples and Policy of the Government of the United States " (Fredericksburg, 1814) ; " Arator ; being a Series of Agricultural Essays, Practical and Politi- cal " (6th ed., Petersburg, 1818) ; " Construction Construed and the Constitution Vindicated " (Richmond, 1820) ; " Tyranny Unmasked " (Wash- ington, 1822) ; and " New Views of the Constitu- tion of the United States" (Washington, 1823). TAYLOR, John, Baptist preacher, b. in Fau- quier county, Va., in 1752 ; d. in Forks of Elkhorn, Franklin co., Ky., in 1833. He became an itiner- ant missionary of the Baptist church in western Virginia at the age of twenty, and in 1783 removed to Kentucky. He resided at Clear Creek, where for three years, he was pastor of the church, till 1795, when he settled in Boone county. He preached frequently and took part in revivals of religion while devoting himself to clearing and cultivating land, and in his last years, though he declined the pastoral relation, he officiated in a church that he had assisted in organizing at Forks of Elkhorn. He published an account of his re- ligious labors and of the churches that he had aided in founding, under the title of " A History of Ten Baptist Missions " (Bloomfield, 1826).

TAYLOR, John, senator, b. near the present site of Columbia, S. O, 4 May, 1770; d. in Colum- bia, S. C, 16 April, 1832. Pie was graduated at Princeton in 1790, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1793, and practised for a few years in Co- lumbia, but made planting his chief business. He was a representative and senator in the legislature of South Carolina for many years, was elected to congress in 1806, and re-elected in 1808. On 3 Dec, 1810, he took his place in the U. S. senate, having been chosen to supply the vacancy that was caused by the resignation of Thomas Sumter. In 1816 he resigned his seat and was returned to the National house of representatives. He was again elected to the state senate in 1822, and in Decem- ber, 1826, after being defeated as a candidate for re-election by Wade Hampton, was elected gov- ernor by thelegislature, serving till 1828.

TAYLOR, John, president of the Mormon church, b. in Winthrop, England, 1 Nov., 1808; d. 25 July, 1887. He united with the Methodist church in England, and in 1832 emigrated to Toronto, Canada. In 1836 Parley P. Pratt, a Mor-