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Rh at Madison university in 1837 and at the theo- logical seminary at Hamilton, N. Y., in 1839. He organized a Baptist church in Brooklyn, N. Y., and after a nine-years' pastorate resigned and founded in the southern part of the city a mission church which became a nourishing society. In 1864 he retired from the pulpit on account of failing health, and two years later he became secretary of the Baptist church-edifice fund, obtaining $250,000 for the construction of church buildings in the west.— A son of Elisha E. L., James Monroe, educator, b. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 5 Aug., 1848, was graduated at the University of Rochester in 1868. and at Rochester theological seminary in 1871. He travelled and studied in Europe in 1871-2, and was pastor of a Baptist church at South Norwalk, Conn., in 1873-'81, and of one at Providence, R. I., in 1882-'6. He received the degree of D. D. from Rochester in 1886. Dr. Taylor has contributed to religious reviews, and was an active member of school-boards in both Connecticut and Rhode Island. Since June, 1886, he has been president of Vassar college. (See illustration.)

TAYLOR, Lachlan, Canadian clergyman, b. in Killean, Argyllshire, Scotland, 18 June, 1815 ; d. in Brackley Point, Prince Edward island, 4 Sept., 1881. He received his early education in Glas- gow, and in 1832 came with his father's family to Canada, where he engaged in teaching. In 1843 he was ordained a minister of the Wesleyan Meth- odist church, ministered successively at Bytown (now Ottawa), Kingston, Hamilton, Toronto, and Montreal, and, after visiting Great Britain, was ap- pointed in 1851 agent of the Upper Canada Bible society. In 1857 he was a delegate to the meeting of the Evangelical alliance at Berlin, and he sub- sequently represented Canada at the annual meet- ing of the British and foreign Bible society. In 1863-'4, in connection with the work of the society, he traversed British Columbia, California, New Mexico, and Central America, and on his return was appointed secretary and treasurer of the mis- sionary society. From 1874 till 1877 Dr. Taylor was employed by the Dominion government to stimulate emigration from Great Britain to Cana- da. He visited at one time Egypt, Palestine, Asia Minor, Turkey, Greece, and Italy, and lectured on those countries. He recei ved the degree of D. D.

TAYLOR, Marshall William, clergyman, b. in Lexington, Ky., 1 July, 1846 ; d. in Louisville, Ky., 11 Sept., 1887. He was the child of free colored parents, was instructed in a school for ne- groes at Louisville, Ky., followed the occupation of a steamboat-cook for three years before the be- ginning of the civil war, and served as a soldier with the Army of the Cumberland from 1862 till 1865. He became a teacher at Hardinsburg, Ky., in 1866, preached at Litchfield, Ky., in 1871, en- tered the Lexington Methodist conference in 1872, and was stationed at Louisville, Ky., Indianapolis, Ind., and Cincinnati, Ohio. He was presiding elder in Ohio in 1878-83, preached in Louisville again during the following year, and then went to New Orleans, La., to assume the editorship of the " Southwestern Christian Advocate." The degree of D. D. was given to him by Central Tennessee college. He published "Handbook for Schools" (Louisville, 1871) ; •' Life of Rev. George W. Down- ing " (1878) ; several editions of " Plantation Melo- dies and Revival Songs of the Negroes " ; " Life and Travels of Amanda Smith" (1886) ; and " The Negro in Methodism " (1887).

TAYLOR, Mary Cecilia, actress, b. in New York city, 13 March, 1827; d. there, 10 Nov., 1866. She began her career as chorus-singer at the New York National and Park theatres, and gradually won her way to the representation of small parts and soubrette and burlesque performances, until she attained a respectable rank as a comedian and opera-singer. On a few occasions she appeared in Brooklyn, Albany, and Boston, but during most of her career was connected with the Olympic, Brougham's, and Burton's theatres, of New York city. Several years before her death Miss Taylor married William O. Ewen, a merchant, and re- tired from the stage. She was personally attract- ive and her voice, though small, was agreeable, but her style suffered from want of refinement. She had winning ways, which charmed the public and for years rendered M Our Mary," as she was called, a very general favorite.

TAYLOR, Moses, merchant, b. in New York city, 11 Jan., 1806. He received a common-school education, became a merchant's clerk at the age of fifteen, and when ten years older embarked in business on his own account. He acquired a large trade with Cuba, and was an extensive ship-owner. In 1855 he became president of the City bank. During the civil war he was one of the original members of the Union defence committee, and, as chairman of the loan committee of the associated banks, he was instrumental in obtaining sub- scribers for more than $200,000,000 of govern- ment securities. He was one of the originators of submarine telegraphy, and has been an active promoter of important railway lines. Among his charitable gifts was one of $250,000 in 1882 for a hospital for employes of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western railroad, and coal and iron companies at Scranton. Pa.

TAYLOR, Nathaniel William, theologian, b. in New Milford, Conn., 23 June, 1786; d. in New Haven, Conn., 10 March, 1858. He was graduated at Yale in 1807, studied theology, and on 8 April, 1812, was installed as pastor of the 1st Congregational church in New Haven. In November, 1822, he resigned this office on being appointed professor of didactic theology at Yale. His theological system was in some respects a development of that of Timothy Dwight, whose pupil and amanuensis he was for two years after leaving college. His views on total depravity and other dogmas, which he first enunciated in the annual discourse to the clergy in 1828, and afterward defended in the " Christian Spectator," were earnestly controverted by Bennett Tyler, Leonard Woods, and other clergymen. His other essays and doctrinal sermons that were published during the Unitarian controversy excited attention and discussion. He was the leader of the New Haven school of theology, and exercised a powerful influence on the religious thought of his time. He received the degree of D. D. from Union college in 1823. After his death his son-in-law, Noah Porter, published his " Practical Sermons" (New York, 1858) ; " Lectures on the Moral Government of God" (2 vols., 1859); and "Essays