Sacramento County
Biographies
ED F. TAYLOR
ED. F. TAYLOR, land and mine attorney, Sacramento, was born January 25, 1836, at New Carlisle, Clarke County, Ohio. His father, Jonathan Taylor, a native of Winchester, Virginia, emigrated to Ohio in 1822, and his mother, nee Elizabeth Robinson, was a native of New Jersey. He came to California in 1855, arriving in San Francisco March 28, and the next day went over to the mines in El Dorado County, where he was engaged in business until 1869. In the fall of that year he came to Sacramento, and has ever since been connected with the United States Land Office, first as clerk; in 1878 he was appointed Register, and acted as such until in the fall of 1886. At present, besides officiating in the capacity of land and mine attorney for the district embracing Sacramento, Placer, Nevada and Amador counties, and a portion of Calaveras, Tuolumne and Alpine counties, he is also engaged in farming in Butte County. Mr. Taylor has also held the office of mining recorder, justice of the peace, etc., and was a member of the Legislature in 1865-’66, being elected on the Republican ticket. In public affairs he has been active and efficient. He was married in 1859 to Miss Susan Woods, a native of Kentucky, who came to California in 1855.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 598. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.