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 594 TAYLOR. TAYLOR. of Taylor, De Meritte & Hagar. In the fall of 1884 this firm founded the Berkeley school in the new Y. M. C. A. building, corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets. The school numbered one hundred and fifty pupils the first year, and employed a dozen teachers. It has continued to in- crease m numbers, and is now easily recog- nized as one of the most prominent private schools in Boston. JAMES B. TAYLOR Mr. Taylor is connected with various literary, social, and charitable societies : was first annual regent of Mystic Side Council, R. A.; is superintendent of the Central church Sunday-school at Newton- ville, where he resides ; president of the " Every Saturday Club," a literary organi- zation of seventeen years' standing, lim- ited in forty members, and including among them several prominent educators ; he is a member of the Congregational clubs of Newton and Boston, ami of the famous Schoolmasters' Clubof Boston ami vicinity. Mr. Taylor was married in Boston, Jan- uary 1, 1872, to Julie S., daughter of Rev. William C. Jackson, formerly a missionary in Asiatic Turkey, where Mrs. Taylor was born, and Mary (Sawyer) Jackson. From this union there are three children : l'.ram erd, William Harold, and Harriet May Taylor. Mr. Taylor's children enjoy the somewhat unusual distinction of having their four grandparents living, two of them over eighty years of age. TAYLOR, WILLIAM, was born of Irish parents in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 15. 1831. He ran away from home at the age of fourteen, and began his sailor's life as a stowaway. I luring the next fourteen years he sailed in every sea, and rose by pluck, honesty, and self-education from cabin-boy to captain. In 1859 he settled in Boston, and en- gaged in various lines of business with success. In 1870 and '7 1 he was a member of the city council ; in 1872 and '73 he was in the House of Representatives, serv- ing on several important committees. As one of the minority of the committee on federal relations, he opposed the vote of censure that was passed on Charles Sum- WILLIAM TAYLOR ner. lie was the originator of the bill I'm the better protection of seamen. In 187(1 he was again in tin- common council, and three years later, in 1S79, he was elected to the state Senate, where he served with credit on several committees, including fisheries and harbors. He carried through, against strenuous opposition, the bill for manhood suffrage, which was. however, defeated in the House, and still awaits