tal States," and of volumes on " Spinal Irritation, or Causes of Backache in American Women" (New York, 18G4); "Mechanical Treatment of Angular Curvature of the Spine " (New York, 1864 ; German translation, Berlin, 1873) ; " Infantile Paralysis and its Attendant Deformities" (Philadelphia, 1867); " Mechanical Treatment of Disease of the Hip- Joint " (New York, 1873 ; German ed., Berlin, 1873) ; and "Sensation and Pain " (New York, 1881).
TAYLOR, George Lansing, clergyman, b. in
Skaneateles, N. Y., 13 Feb., 1835. He removed to
Ohio in 1847, studied for two years at Ohio Wes-
leyan university, Delaware, Ohio, and for two years
more at Columbia, where he was graduated in 1861,
was assistant editor of the "Christian Advocate"
in New York city in 1861-2, entered the itinerant
ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church in
April, 1862, and has since held pastorates in the
New York east conference. He married, in 1861,
Eliza M., a daughter of the Rev. Mansfield French.
During the civil war he served in the Christian
commission in Virginia and Maryland. He has
been actively connected with the National temper-
ance society, and has frequently preached at camp-
meetings. He received the degree of D. D. from
Syracuse university in 1876, and that of L. H. D.
from Columbia in 1887. Besides numerous ser-
mons, pamphlets, addresses, fugitive poems, and
magazine articles, Dr. Taylor is the author of
" Elijah, the Reformer, a Ballad-Epic, and other
Sacred and Religious Poems " (New York, 1885) ;
" Ulysses S. Grant, Conqueror, Patriot, Hero ; an
Elegy, and other Poems (1885) ; " What Shall We
Do with the Sunday-School?" (New York, 1886);
" The Progress of Learning, a Poem delivered at
the Celebration of the Centennial of Columbia
College " (1887) ; and " The New Africa: its Dis-
coverv and Destiny," with maps (1888).
TAYLOR, George William, soldier, b. in Hun-
terdon county, N. J., 22 Nov., 1808 ; d. in Alexan-
dria, Va., 1 Sept., 1862. He was graduated at the
military academy of Alden Partridge, Middletown,
Conn., and received a midshipman's warrant in the
navy in 1827, but resigned at the end of four years
and engaged in mercantile pursuits. In the be-
ginning of the Mexican war he assisted in raising
a company in New Jersey, being commissioned as
lieutenant on 8 March, 1847, and as captain in the
following September, and served through Gen.
Zachary Taylor's campaigns. After the war he
went to California, remaining there three years.
Returning then to New Jersey, he occupied him-
self in mining and iron-manufacturing. When the
civil war began he was made colonel of the 3d New
Jersey infantry, which left for the field on 28 June,
, assisted in guarding Long Bridge, formed
part of the reserve division at Bull Run, and par-
ticipated in the occupation of Manassas in March,
, being the first to perceive the enemy retreat-
ing. When Gen. Philip Kearny was promoted,
Col. Taylor succeeded to the command of the bri-
gade, which he led in the advance on Richmond
and the seven days' battles, receiving his commis-
sion as brigadier-general of volunteers on 9 May,
1862. At Gaines's Mills his command was subject-
ed to the hottest fire. At the second battle of Bull
Run he fought with distinguished courage, and
received wounds from which he soon after died.
TAYLOR, Jacob, mathematician, d. in Phila-
delphia after 1736. He was a school-master in
Philadelphia, holding the appointment of surveyor-
general of the commonwealth, and published alma-
nacs, for which he composed poetical pieces. He
also practised medicine. One of his poems is en-
titled "Pennsylvania" (1728).
TAYLOR, James, pioneer, b. in Midway, Va., 19
April, 1769 ; d. in Newport, Ky., 8 Nov., 1848. His
father was a first cousin of Gen. Zachary Taylor.
The son emigrated to Kentucky in 1792. During
the second war with Great Britain he used his
money and credit to pay the troops, took the field
as brigadier-general of Kentucky militia, served as
quartermaster-general of the northwestern army
under Gen. William Hull, and was active in con-
certing a plan to displace Hull and confide the
command of the fortress at Detroit to Gen. Dun-
can McArthur. When Gen. Hull ordered him to
act with Col. James Miller and the British officers
in drawing up articles of capitulation, he refused
to have any participation in the surrender. He
became one of the largest land-owners in the west.
TAYLOR, James Barnett, clergyman, b. in
Barton-on-Humber, England, 19 March, 1819 ; d.
in Richmond, Va., 22 Dec, 1871. He was brought
in his infancy to the United States, and received
his early education in New York city, whence his
parents removed about 1818 to Mecklenburg county,
Va. After passing through an academical course, he
became a Baptist home missionary, and in 1826
was chosen pastor of a church in Richmond, Va.,
where he soon acquired a high reputation as a
preacher. In 1839-'40 he officiated as chaplain of
the University of Virginia. Returning to Rich-
mond, he served as a pastor there for five years
longer. He labored also as a missionary, and in
1845, soon after the organization of the Southern
Baptist convention, became its corresponding sec-
retary. This office he filled till within a few
weeks of his death, travelling constantly, preach-
ing throughout the south, and editing the "Re-
ligious Herald" for a short time, and subsequently
the "Southern Baptist Missionary Journal" and
the " Home and Foreign Journal." both of which
he founded, and the " Foreign Mission Journal."
He was pastor also of the Baptist church at Tay-
lorsville, Hanover co., Va., till the civil war began.
During the war he labored as a colporteur in camps
and hospitals, and for three years as Confederate
post-chaplain. After its close he exerted himself
to revive the missions of the Southern Baptist con-
vention, and took much interest in the education
of the freedmen, preaching often to colored con-
gregations, and conferring with the secretary of
the Freedmen's bureau with regard to the best
plans for assisting the emancipated slaves. He was
one of the originators of the Virginia Baptist edu-
cation society, and a founder of Richmond college.
His chief published works were " Life of Lot Cary "
(Baltimore, 1837) ; " Lives of Virginia Baptist Min-
isters " (Richmond. 1837) ; and "Memoir of Luther
Rice, one of the First Missionaries in the East"
(1841). He had nearly completed before his death
a " History of Virginia Baptists." See "Life and
Times of James B. Taylor, by his son, George B.
Taylor (Philadelphia, 1872). His wife was a
daughter of Elisha Scott Williams. — Their son,
George Boardman, clergyman, b. in Richmond t
Va., 27 Dec, 1832, was graduated at Richmond college, taught for a short time, and then studied three years at the University of Virginia, at the same time serving as pastor of two Baptist churches in the vicinity. He was graduated in most of the
schools in the university, was pastor for two years in Baltimore, Md., then for twelve years at Staunton, Va., leaving his church during the campaign of 1862 to act as chaplain to Stonewall Jackson's corps. Subsequently, till the close of hostilities,
he officiated as post-chaplain in conjunction with his pastorate. In 1869 he was chosen chaplain of the University of Virginia for the usual period of
