James Taylor

Birth Date

1798

Death Date

1876-01

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Harrodsburg, Kentucky, attorney and bank director. Kentucky native. Married to Georgiana Taylor. Father of James Taylor, Sarah Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Rebecca Taylor, and Caroline Taylor. Member of a committee to draft resolutions for Friends of Emancipation and Colonization in Mercer County, Kentucky, in 1849. Attorney in Harrodsburg in 1850. Appointed Commissioner to divide Mercer County into election districts in 1850. Owned nine enslaved persons in Harrodsburg in 1850. Retired attorney in Harrodsburg in 1860. Owned ten enslaved persons in Harrodsburg in 1860. Member of board of directors of Harrodsburg Savings Institution in 1864.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 365A-365B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 908-9.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 694.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Harrodsburg, p. 47A.
“Public Meeting in Mercer,” Courier Journal (Louisville, KY), April 19, 1849.
Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky Passed at the November session, 1850, vol. 1 (Frankfort, KY: A.G. Hodges & Co., State Printers, 1851), 9.
“Death of Major James Taylor,” Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), January 26, 1876, p. 1.
Find A Grave, "James Taylor (1798-1876)," Memorial #100141379, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/100141379 (accessed April 23, 2018).
KYR-0002-225-0043.

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