to “Faust,” both parts (Leipsic, 1881). After her husband's death she edited, with notes, his “Dramatic Works” (1880), and in the same year his “Poems” in a “Household Edition,” and brought together his “Critical Essays and Literary Notes.” In 1885 she prepared a school edition of “Lars,” with notes and a sketch of its author's life. After six years' labor in collecting and arranging the poet's extensive private correspondence, she completed, with Horace E. Scudder, the “Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor” (2 vols., Boston, 1884).
TAYLOR, Benjamin Cook, clergvman, b. in
Philadelphia, Pa., 24 Feb., 1801 ; d. in Bergen, N. J.,
2 Feb., 1881. He was graduated at Princeton in 1819
and at the New Brunswick theological seminary
in 1822, held various pastorates between 1825 and
1828, and from the latter year till the time of his
death was pastor of the Reformed church at Ber-
gen, the 200th anniversary of which he commemo-
rated in a sermon in 1861. Besides this and other
discourses, he published " Annals of the Classis
and Township of Bergen " (1856). He received the
degree of D. D. from Hobart in 1843. — His brother,
Isaac Ebenezer, physician, b. in Philadelphia, Pa.,
25 April, 1812, was educated at Rutgers, and gradu-
ated at the medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania in 1834. He was engaged in mer-
cantile business in New York city from 1835 till
1839, then began practice, travelled and studied in
Europe in 1840-'l, and after his return had charge
for seven years, as attending physician, of cases of
diseases of women in the Eastern, City. Northern,
and Demilt dispensaries, in which he introduced a
system of clinical instruction in his department.
In 1851 he was elected physician to Bellevue hos-
pital. In 1860 he suggested the establishment of
a medical college in connection with the hospital,
and in the following year Bellevue hospital medical
college was incorporated and went into operation,
with Dr. Taylor as its president and treasurer. In
1863, at his suggestion, an out-door department
was organized in connection with the hospital. He
resigned his professorship of obstetrics in 1867,
but was elected emeritus professor, and continued
in the presidency of the faculty. He was presi-
dent of the medical board of Bellevue hospital
from 1868 till 1876, when he ceased his labors as
attending obstetrical physician. From 1860 till
1874 he was attending physician to Charity hospi-
tal, and for the first two years was president of its
medical board. As consulting physician, he is still
connected with both hospitals. Since 1876 he has
been obstetrical physician to the Maternity hospi-
tal. He is vice-president of the American gyne-
cological society. He was one of the originators
of the " New York Medical Journal " and president
of its association in 1869-'70. As early as 1839
Dr. Taylor suggested the hypodermic method of
treatment by morphia and strychnia. He was the
earliest American physician to use the speculum
in diseases of women, publishing a paper on the
subject in 1841. He was also the first to intro-
duce the subject of uterine auscultation, and in
1843 edited Dr. Evory Kennedy's work on that
diagnostic method. He has published original
monographs on the symptoms and treatment of
Addison's disease, the inhalation of chloroform
as a remedy for regurgitation of the stomach,
the non-shortening of the cervix uteri during
gestation, the nature of placenta previa, the seat
of disease in procidentia uteri, the mechanism of
spontaneous inversion of the uterus, and on con-
tracted and faulty pelves, and various other sub-
jects connected with midwifery. — A son of Benjamin C, William James Romeyn, clergyman,
b. in Schodack, Rensselaer co., N. Y., 31 July, 1828,
was graduated at Rutgers in 1841, and at the
theological seminary at New Brunswick in 1844,
and licensed by the classis of Bergen in the latter
year. He was pastor of the Reformed church at
New Durham, N. J., in 1844-'6, then in Jersey City
for three years, in Schenectady, N. Y., for about
the same length of time, then of another church
in Jersey City in 1852-'4, and after that of the 3d
Reformed church of Philadelphia till 1862, when
he became corresponding secretary of the American
Bible society. He resumed the active work of the
ministry in 1869, and from that year has had charge
of a church in Newark, N. J. He presided over the
general synod in 1871. From 1872 till 1876 he
edited the " Christian Intelligencer," and attended
the Presbyterian councils held in Philadelphia,
Belfast, and London. The degree of D. D. was con-
ferred on him by Rutgers in 1860. Dr. Taylor has
written much for the religious press and published
hymns, addresses, sermons, and tracts. He is the
author of " Louisa, a Pastor's Memorial " (Phila-
delphia, 1860) ; " The Bible in the Last Hundred
Years " (1876) ; " Church Extension in Large
Cities " (1880) ; and " On Co-operation in Foreign
Missions " (1884).
TAYLOR, Bushrod Bust, naval officer, b. in
Madison, Ind., 31 March, 1832 ; d. in Washington,
D. C, 22 April, 1883. He entered the navy as an
acting midshipman, 3 April, 1849, and was gradu-
ated at the naval academy. 12 June, 1855. He was
promoted to master on 16 Sept., lieutenant, 31 July,
1856, and served in the Paraguay expedition of
1859. He went to the naval academy as an in-
structor in October, 1860, and assisted in the re-
moval of the academy from Annapolis to Newport.
From May to August, 1861, he served in the flag-
ship "Colorado," in the Gulf squadron, on the
blockade. He was in the supply and despatch
steamer " Connecticut " in 1861-2, and was execu-
tive of the steamer " Cimmerone " in James river and
the South Atlantic blockade in 1862-3. He was
promoted to lieutenant-commander, 16 July, 1862,
served in the steamer " Ticonderoga," flag-ship of
the West India squadron, in 1863, and commanded
the steamer " Kanawha," in the Western Gulf squad-
ron, until 28 Sept., 1865. He next served at the
Philadelphia navy-yard in 1865-'6, and at the naval
academy as an instructor in 1866-'9. He was com-
missioned commander, 14 March, 1868, and had the
steamer " Idaho," of the Asiatic squadron, in 1869.
In this vessel he encountered the centre of a terrible
typhoon, in which she was completely dismantled
and became almost a total wreck. This was one of
the worst storms, that was ever survived by any
ship. He next commanded the " Ashuelot " on the
same station, until January, 1872, served at the
Philadelphia navy-yard in 1872, and in the bureau
of yards and docks at Washington in 1872-4. He
commanded the steamer " Wachusett " during the
threatened war with Spain in 1874, was a member
of the board of inspection in 1876, and at the Bos-
ton navy-yard in 1876-'9. He was commissioned
captain, 27 Oct., 1869, and had special duty at Wash-
ington in 1880.
TAYLOR, Christopher, Quaker preacher, b. near Skipton, Yorkshire, England, about 1620 ; d. in Philadelphia, Pa., in April, 1686. He was a Puritan minister until he was converted to Quaker
doctrines by the teachings of George Fox. He was a man of learning, and expounded his belief in different parts of England while pursuing the vocation of a teacher of the classics. After suffering
Eersecution and imprisonment for his convictions he left his school at Edmonton, Middlesex, and
