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 TAYLOR. TAYLOR. 593 The " Globe." it should be remembered, was outside the charmed circle of the '• Associated Press " combination, and every other newspaper's hand was against it. Discredited by a long and disastrous record of failure, loaded with financial em- barrassments, and harassed by the united hostility of its rivals, it was indeed a very hazardous undertaking to attempt its resuscitation. Colonel Taylor practically created a new " Globe," and what was at first an "experiment" is now a positive and lively reality. It has a sparkle and an individuality that commends itself to many readers not of its own chosen politi- cal faith. While in its columns the Demo- cratic doctrine is in all essentials practi- cally maintained, the " Globe " is often found criticising its party managers and reproving its leaders in a tone that clearly indicates its consciousness of entire inde- pendence. TAYLOR, George Sylvester, son of Sylvester and Sarah (Eaton) Taylor, was born in South Hadley, Hampshire county, March 2, 1S22. He received his education- al training in the public schools of South Hadley, Chicopee Falls, and Springfield. llis first entrance into business life was with Col. D. M. Bryant, in a country stoic at Chicopee Falls, at the age of six- teen, where he remained two years. Pre- vious to this he had worked in his father's market, and on the home farm. In 1840 he became a partner with S. A. Shackford, under the linn name of Shackford iV- Taylor, which relation continued twenty- three years. In 1863 he went into com- pany with 1!. B. Belcher, under the firm name of Belcher & Taylor, manufacturers of agricultural tools. The next year the business was transferred to the Belcher & Taylor Agricultural Tool Company, which has since that time carried on the manu- facture. Mr. Taylor is agent and treas- urer of said company, having held the positions of agent twenty-one years and treasurer twenty-five years. He was married in Chicopee, November 25, 1845, to Asenath B., daughter of Elias H. and Rebecca (Boylston) Cobb. Of this union were seven children. The four surviving children are : EllaS. (Mrs. Lyon), Edward Sylvester, William Cobb, and Albert Eaton Taylor. Mr. Taylor has been repeatedly called by his fellow-citizens to positions of public trust. He was assessor two years, select- man three years, has been a representative to the Legislature, and was one year in the state Senate. He was superintendent of the Congre- gational Sunday-school twenty-five years, and has been a deacon of the Congrega- tional church since 1859. He was presi- dent of the Hampden County Agricultural Society three years, and is at present a member of the state board of agriculture. He is president of the Chicopee Falls Savings Bank, and president and general manager of the Chicopee Falls Building Company. He has held the commission of justice of the peace since he was twenty-two years of age. When the police court of the town was established, he was appointed special jus- tice, and held the office until his election to the Legislature. Mr. Taylor was one of a family of nine children, two sisters and seven brothers, all of whom lived to mature years, and married. His father reached the age of eighty-eight, and his mother, seventy-seven. They celebrated their golden wedding, September t2, 1865, and lived together five years thereafter. TAYLOR, James Brainerd, son of Cyrus *. and Margaret M. (Armstrong) Taylor, was born in Boston, on Fort Hill, August 22, 1845. His ancestor, Abraham Taylor, was one of the first settlers of Concord, 1640, and a later ancestor was one of the leading settlers of Dunstable, about 1690. His mother was of Scotch and English parentage, her paternal grand- father being a preacher in Perth, Scotland. Mr. Taylor entered the primary depart- ment of Chauncy Hall school in the fall of 1855, the late Susan N. Nickerson be- ing his teacher, was fitted for college, and graduated at Harvard in the class of 1867. After a year at the Harvard law school, under Professors Washburn, Parsons, and Holmes, he studied Hebrew in the Newton Baptist Seminary, and theology in Andover Theological Seminary, graduating from the latter institution in 1871. He declined a call to the chair of rhetoric in Iowa State College, and accepted the chair of oratory in Bowdoin College, offered by President Chamberlain. He remained there two years, giving occasional instruction also in elocution in the state normal school', of Maine, and Bangor Theological Seminary. In 1873 Mr. Taylor returned to Boston. He was shortly called to his old school (Chauncy Hall) to teach literature, elocu- tion, Latin, and history. In the summer of 1883 he visited Europe for the second time, and shortly after his return invited the heads of the classical and mathematical departments at Chauncy Hall to form with him the educational firm