Collection #

SC 2666

 

 

William O. Taylor
Family history, 1998

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Cataloging Information

 

 

 

Processed by

Paul Brockman
11 June 1999
Revised 22 April 2002
Updated 9 March 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

 

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF
COLLECTION:

1 folder

COLLECTION
DATES:

1998

PROVENANCE:

Wilma Ritchie, 7296 Oakland Road, Portage, MI  49024, 10 November 1998

RESTRICTIONS:

None

COPYRIGHT:

 

REPRODUCTION
RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.

ALTERNATE
FORMATS:

 

RELATED
HOLDINGS:

 

ACCESSION
NUMBER:

1999.0126

NOTES:

 

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

William Ozias Taylor (1824–1897) was born in Delaware County Ohio.  In 1842 he moved with his family to Pulaski County Indiana.  In 1849 he married Calista Tibbits who died one year later.  Shortly after coming to Indiana, Taylor spent several years driving a stage in Knox County where he met his second wife, Catherine Hewitt.  He then returned to Pulaski County where he purchased a large tract of land in Franklin Township.  William and Catherine Taylor had five children.  In February 1865 he enlisted in the 151st Indiana Infantry and was involved in several skirmishes with Confederate troops.  Catherine Hewitt Taylor died in 1868.  Three years later, William Taylor married his third wife, Jane Riley and they had one child.

Sources: Information in collection.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection consists of a 25-page typescript of biographical sketches of William Ozias Taylor and his descendants.  Other individual biographies include Levi Homer Taylor, James Homer Ralph Taylor, Ada Florence Wile Taylor, Ralph Hubert Taylor, Howard Charles Taylor, Helen Grace Taylor Swaney, Clyde Nathaniel Taylor, Glenn Levi Taylor, Clarence Henry Taylor, Raymond Earl Taylor, Robert Homer Taylor, Paul Eugene Taylor, and Wilma Doris Taylor Ritchie.

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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