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 the existing charter of San Francisco; and in 1899 retired from active practice to become dean of Hastings College of the Law (Law Department of the State university). He was elected a trustee of the San Francisco Public library and also of the Law library; an honorary member of the California State Medical society; was president of the San Francisco Bar association for four years and connected with other organizations. He translated the Sonnets of José-Maria de Heredia (1st. ed., 1897; 2d ed., 1898; 3d ed., 1903); and is the author of: Moods and Other Verses (1899); Into the Light (1901); Visions and Other Verse (1903); and of medical and legal papers.

TAYLOR, Ezra B., representative, was born at Nelson, Portage county, Ohio, July 9, 1823; son of Elisha and Thirza (Couch) Taylor; grandson of Elisha and Anna (Kimball) Taylor, and of Samuel and Hannah (Ferris) Couch, all of Berkshire county, Mass. He attended academies near his home; read law with Judge Paine in Portage county, and in 1845 was admitted to the bar. He was married, Nov. 9, 1849, to Harriet M., daughter of William and Anna (Campbell) Frazer of Ravenna, Ohio. He was elected prosecuting attorney of Portage county in 1854, and in 1861 he removed to Warren, Ohio. He was judge of the court of common pleas for the ninth judical district from March, 1877, until Sept. 5, 1880, when he resigned; was a Republican representative from the nineteenth Ohio district in the 46th-52d congresses, from Nov. 30, 1880, until March 4, 1893, completing the term of Representative James A. Garfield, who resigned Nov. 8, 1880, having been elected President of the United States. He served on the judiciary committee all the time he was in congress, and was chairman during the 53d congress.

TAYLOR, Frederick William, second bishop of Quincy and 200th in succession in the American episcopate, was born in Toledo, Ohio, Jan. 11, 1853; son of Dr. Alfred and Helen (Leonard) Taylor; grandson of Elisha and Anne (Dunlap) Taylor and of Henry and Sarah (Morrison) Leonard, and a descendant of Judge John Taylor of Charlton, Saratoga county, N.Y., and of Maj. Henry Leonard of Monmouth county, N.J., and Napoleon, Ohio, who served in the war of 1812. He was graduated from Adelbert College of Western Reserve university, A.B., 1873, A.M., 1876, and was married, Aug. 11, 1874, to Cora Lucinda, daughter of Horace B. and Philena (Lamb) Kingsley of Cleveland, Ohio. He was graduated from the General Theological seminary, New York, 1876; was admitted to the diaconate, July, 1876, and advanced to the priesthood, Sept. 30, 1877; did mission work in and near Cleveland, Ohio, 1876; in Ulster county, N.Y., in 1877, and was rector of Holy Trinity, Danville, Ill., 1878-86, and of St. Paul's (the Pro-Cathedral), Springfield, Ill., 1886-1901. He was consecrated bishop-coadjutor of Quincy at the Cathedral of St. John, Quincy, Aug. 6, 1901, by Bishops Seymour, Grafton and Nicholson, assisted by Bishops Francis, Williams, Anderson and Weller, and became the second bishop of Quincy on the death of Bishop Burgess, Oct. 8, 1901. He was for some time an instructor in the Western Theological seminary, Chicago; was a trustee of the Public library, Danville, Ill., and Springfield, Ill.; local secretary of the Egypt Exploration Fund; deputy to the general convention from the diocese of Springfield in and after 1883; treasurer of the province of Illinois; archdeacon of Springfield; secretary and president of the standing committee; examining chaplain; chaplain of St. Agatha's school and of the Orphanage of the Holy Child, Springfield, and chaplain of the Illinois state senate, 1892. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Nashotah in 1890, and was instructor in canon law in the Western Theological seminary, Chicago, 1895-1903. His wife died in 1894, leaving six children, one of whom lived but a few years. Bishop Taylor was for many years a reviewer on the staff of the Living Church, and the author of numerous historical and theological papers. He died at Quincy, Ill., April 25, 1903.

TAYLOR, George, signer, was born in Ireland, in 1716. He acquired a good education and studied medicine, but in 1736 he ran away from home, landed in America, and bound himself out to a Mr. Savage, an iron manufacturer at Durham, Pa. His education secured for him the position of clerk in the manufactory, and on the death of his employer he married the widow and took entire charge of the works. He established a large iron mill in Northampton, Pa., and became prominent in public matters. He was a delegate to the provincial assembly held at Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 15, 1764; was a member of the committee on grievances, and served as county judge and colonel of militia. He returned to Durham, was again a delegate to the provincial assembly of 1775, and was a member of the committee of safety. On July 20, 1776, five of the delegates from Pennsylvania refused to sign the Declaration of Independence and were forced to resign, and Taylor was chosen a delegate, thus becoming a signer of the instrument, Aug. 20, 1776. In 1777 he retired to Easton, Pa., where he died, Feb. 23, 1781.

TAYLOR, George Washington, representative, was born in Montgomery county, Ala., Jan. 16, 1849; son of Edward F. and Anne (Trezevant) Taylor; grandson of Thomas Taylor and of Dr. Daniel Heyward Trezevant, and a descendant of