Sacramento County
Biographies
DAVID W.
TAYLOR
DAVID W. TAYLOR, farmer, was born in Frederick County, Maryland, February 29, 1840, and in 1844 the family removed with him to Seneca County, Ohio, where they lived thirteen years. Thence they moved to Wisconsin, and two years later came to California, arriving September 15, 1859, at San Francisco on the steamer Boluck. He proceeded to the vicinity of Hangtown, where he worked for his brother, John B., one year on his ranch and then started out for himself. He purchased his present place in 1881, where he raises grain, hay, cattle and hogs. In 1863 he married Emma Jane Thomson, who was born September 9, 1845. The children are Clarence E., Frederick P., Budd H., and Edith M.
Transcribed by: Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.
Davis, Hon. Win. J., An Illustrated History of
Sacramento County, California. Page 608. Lewis
Publishing Company. 1890.
© 2007 Jeanne Sturgis Taylor.