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 TAYLOR TAYLOR, William, M. E. bishop. was born in Rockbridge county, Va., May 2, 1821. He worked on his father's farm, and subsequently learned the tanner's trade. He was an itinerant preacher in the Methodist church, 1843-49; a missionary in California, 1849-56, and in Canada and New England, 1856-61. In 1863 he went to England, where he was engaged for several months as an evangelist: traveled extensively in Europe, Egypt and the Holy Land, and served as a mis- sionary in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and South Africa, 1863-65, renewing his evan- gelistic work in Great Britain in 1866. He visited the West Indies, Australia and Ceylon, organiz- ing several self-supporting churches in India, 1872-76, and in South America, 1876-84. On May 22, 1884, he was appointed missionary bishop to Africa, where he labored until 1896, establish- ing an extensive chain of mission stations on the Congo and west coast. In May, 1888, he attended the general conference in New York city, where he made his residence after 1897. He is the author of Seven Yeurs' Street Preaching in San Francisco (1856); Address to Young America, and a Word to the Old Folks (1857); California Life Illustrated (1858); The Model Preacher (1866); Reconciliation, or How to be Saved (1867); Infancy and Manhood of Christian Life (1867): Christian Adventures in South Africa (1867); The Election of Grace (1868); Four Years' Campaign in India (1875); Our South American Cousins (1878); Letters to a Quaker Friend on Baptism (1880); Ten Years of Self-Sup- porting Missions in India (1882); Pauline Meth- ods of Missionary Work (1899); The Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa; Story of My Life (1896). He died at Palo Alto, Cal., May 18, 1902. TAYLOR, William Ladd, artist, was born in Grafton, Mass., Dec. 10, 1854; son of William H. and Anna Maria (Darling) Taylor; grandson of Joseph and Persis (Jones) Taylor and of Daniel and Abigail (Bartlett) Darling. He attended the common schools in Worcester, Mass., and studied art in Boston, Mass.. in New York city, and under Boulanger and Le Febvre in Paris, France, 1884-85. Upon his return he opened a studio in Boston, Mass., where he devoted himself es- pecially to illustrating. He was married in September, 1888, to Mary Alice, daughter of New- ton and Clymena (Williams) Fitts of Norfolk, Va. Among his noteworthy illustrations are: Pic- tures from Longfellow's Poems (1898): The Cen- tury in New England (Series) (1900); The Pio- neer West (Series) (1902-03). TAYLOR, William Mackergo, clergyman, author, was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, Oct. 23, 1829. He attended the Kilmarnock academy, and was graduated from the University of Glas- gow, A.B., A.M.. 1849. He attended the Theo- TAYLOR 1892-95. Lyman M. Jay Cur Um logical Seminary of the United Presbyterian church, Edinburgh, 1848-52; was licensed to preach by the presbytery of the U.P. church, Dec. 14, 1852, and ordained pastor, June 28, 1853, He was pastor at Kilmaurs, 1853-55; and at Derby Road, Liver- pool, 1855-71, and was sent to America as a delegate to the gen- eral assembly of the Presbyterian church, in 1871. He supplied the pulpit of the Rev. R. S. Storrs in Brook- lyn, N.Y., in 1871; was pastor of the Broadway Taber- nacle. New York, 1872-92, and pastor- emeritus, He Beecher lecturer on preaching at Yale, 1885-86; L. C. Stone lecturer at the Princeton Theological seminary in 1880, and personally raised $21,000 for the erection of parsonages on the western frontier under the administration of the American Congregational Union. The honorary degree of D.D. was con- ferred on him by Yale, and by Amherst in 1872, and by Washington and Jefferson college in 1888, and that of LL.D. by the College of New Jersey, Princeton, in 1883. He contributed extensively to the religious press, and is the author of Life Truths (1862); The Miracles (1865); The Lost Found (1870); Memoir of the Rev. Matthew Dickie (1872); Prayer and Busi- ness (1873); David, King of Israel (1875); Elijah the Prophet (1876): The Ministry of the World (1876) Songs in the Night (1877); Peter the Apostle (1877); Daniel the Beloved (1878): Moses the Lawgiver (1879); The Gospel Miracles (1880); John Knox: a Biography (1885): Joseph the Prime Minister (1886); The Parables of Our Saviour Erpounded (1886) ; The Scottish Pulpit (1887); Ruth the Gleaner (1891): Good Char- acter; What it is, and how to Form it (1892). He died in New York city, Feb. 8, 1895. TAYLOR, William Robert, governor of Wis- consin, was born in Woodbury, Conn., July 10, 1818; son of Robert and Mary (Coleman) Taylor. His mother was a native of Paisley, Scotland, and his father a sea-captain. Both died before 1824, and he spent his boyhood on a farm in the Wilder- ness of Jefferson county, N.Y., where he pre- pared himself for college by manual labor, at- tended Champion academy, and held a certificate for admission to the Sophomore class at Union, but was obliged to continue at work to pay debts al- ready incurred for his education. After conduct- was