Marion Cartright Taylor

Birth Date

1822-10-30

Death Date

1871-01-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Shelby County, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Ohio County, Kentucky, native. Attended St. Mary's College. Graduate of University of Louisville Law School in Louisville in 1849. Attorney in Shelby County, Kentucky, in 1850. Attorney in Shelby County in 1860. Served in the 15th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a captain and colonel from December 14, 1861, to January 14, 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby, District 1, p. 296B.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Shelby, District 2, p. 3.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 892.
Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue -- Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2014), 189.
"Col Marion Cartright Taylor (1822-1871)," Find A Grave, Memorial 7430426, accessed June 22, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7430426.

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