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260 Exercises on Surveying for the Use of Students in Kenyon College" (Mt. Vernon, 1881); and "Elements of Geometry " (New York, 1885).

TAYLOR, Hainns, jurist, b. 12 Sept., 1851, at New Heme, N. C. ; studied at Chapel Hill, N. C, but did not graduate. lie read law, and practised at Mobile until his appointment by President Cleveland as minister to Spain, filling this posi- tion from May, 1893, to 15 Sept., 1897, when he returned to this country and resumed the practice of law at Mobile. Apart from his work at the bar he has been engaged for many years upon "The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution " (2 vols., London and Boston, 18!)2-'8).

TAYLOR, Henry Clay, naval officer, b. in Washington, D. C, 12 March, 1843, and was ap- pointed from Ohio to the U. S. naval academy, where he was graduated in 1863. He saw some active service during the last two years of the civil war, and passed through the various grades, attain- ing to the rank of captain in April, 1894. During that period he served on several stations and in vari- ous shore duties. He was president of the Naval war college near Newport for three years, and since January, 1897, has been in command of the battle- ship "Indiana," in which he had an honorable share in the destruction of Cervera's Spanish squadron at Santiago in July, 1898. To the " Cen- tury " for May, 1899, Capt. Taylor contributed an interesting account of his part in the celebrated naval battle, the other captains and Commander Wainwright, of the "Gloucester," also writing similar articles for the same number of the maga- zine. In September Capt. Taylor, with the " In- diana," was third in the line of battle-ships that escorted Admiral Dewey and his flag-ship "Olym- pia " in the memorable Now York naval parade.

TAYLOR, Horace Adolphus, government official, b. in Madrid, St. Lawrence co., N. Y., 24 May, 1837. He was educated in his native county and in River Palls, Wis., where he founded "The Journal," of which he was editor and publisher, and was also for many years extensively engaged in banking, printing, lumber, and real estate busi- ness. In 1874 he was made Wisconsin state land agent, in which office he continued until appointed, in 1880, U. S. consul to Marseilles, Prance, remain- ing there for three years. In 1887 he was elected state senator of Wisconsin, and two years later was selected as U. S. commissioner of railroads, occupying the position for a period of four years. Mr. Taylor was appointed in March, 1899, assistant secretary of the U. S. treasury department. In 1874 he edited and published "Taylor's Chip Basket."

TAYLOR, James Knox, architect, b. in Knox- ville. 111., 11 Oct., 1857, and was educated in the public schools of St. Paul, Minn. He took a spe- cial course in architecture at the Institute of technology in Boston, followed by nearly four years' study in the offices of New York architects. Returning to St. Paul in 1882, he practised his profession of architecture for ten years, removing to Philadelphia in 1892, where he designed several important buildings. In April, 1895. he became a senior draughtsman in the U. S. architect's office in Washington, and subsequently principal draughts- man. In October, 1897, after passing a civil service examination, Mr. Taylor was appointed supervis- ing architect of the U. S. treasury department. He was a member of the commission who in 1899 selected, from among many others submitted, the design of Mr. Cass Gilbert for the custom-house to be erected on the Bowling Green site in New York. TAYLOR, James Loockerman. railway agent, b. in Tallahassee, Pla., 26 July, 1847, son of John Bradford Taylor, of Baltimore. He was educated at the Florida military institute, sirved as a youth in the Confederate army during 1864-'5. and later as a captain in the Georgia National guard. He was an honorary commissioner to Europe of the Chicago world's Columbian exposition and a member of the jury auperieur and president of the Jury d'exame7i, Berlin international exposition of 1897. Col. Taylor is the European representative of the Pennsylvania railway com]iany and presi- dent of the American society of London, where he has nuvde numy notable speeches, also one at a pub- lic dinner in Sheffield early in November, 1899.

TAYLOR, Richard, soldier, b. in Orange coun- ty, Va., 22 March, 1744; d. in Louisville, Ky., about 1827. He was the father of President Zaehary Taylor, who was his third son. The elder Taylor was a pioneer, being one of the first to trade down the Ohio and Jlississippi rivers from Pittsburg to New Orleans in 1769. During the Revolutionary war he entered the service as 1st lieutenant of the 1st Virginia regiment, ft Sept., 1775; became captain, 5 March, 1776; ma- jor of the 13th regiment, 4 Feb., 1778 ; was trans- ferred to the 9th regiment on 14 Sept. ; pro- moted to lieutenant-colonel of the 2d Virginia regiment, 7 Dec, 1779 ; and retired on 12 Feb., 1781. He received over eight thousand acres of land between 1783 and 1808 for former military services, and additional grants as well as pension concessions were made to his heirs after his death. He distinguished himself for his intrepid courage and imperturbable coolness in battle, especially at Trenton. Col. Taylor removed to the neighborhood of Louisville in 1785, was a member of the Kentucky convention of 1785, of the constitutional convention of 1792, and also of the second constitutional convention of 17 Aug., 1799. He served in 1792 as a member of the Kentucky legislature, and was elected one of the judges for Jefferson county. In 1813, 1817. 1821. and 1825 he was a presidential elector. In 1792 he was severely wounded near Eton, Ohio, in the battle between Gen. Adair's forces in a conflict with the Indians under Little Turtle.

TAYLOR, Robert Love, statesman, b. in Happy Valley, Carter co., Tenn., 31 July, 1850. He re- mained on his father's farm until he was twenty- six years old, except at intervals when he was at school, study- ing law in the office of S. J. Kirkpatrick, and received his li- cense to practise in 1878. Two weeks afterward he was nominated by a con- vention of the Demo- cratic party for con- gress, and after a hot contest in joint dis- cussion he was elect- ed, although the dis- trict was Republican from 5,000 to 7,0)10 majority. In 1884 he was elector for the state at large on the Cleveland and Hen- dricks ticket. In 1886 he defeated his brother Alfred for governor, and in 1888 he was again nominated for governor, de- feating S. W. Hawkins, Republican. In 1890 he canvassed his state for the Democratic ticket, and