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Person

Harrison Taylor (Speaker State House, Mason Co, KY)

b. 1810-08-10 d. 1876-11-28

About

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and politician. Lewis County, Kentucky, native. Son of Joseph Taylor and Elizabeth Harrison Taylor. Married Charlotte Jane Duke Taylor in Scott County on January 14, 1840. Father of Mary D. Taylor, Elizabeth "Bessie" Taylor, Charlotte Taylor, Alice Taylor, Harry Taylor, and John D. Taylor. Deputy clerk in the Mason County Court and Mason Circuit Court from 1825 to 1829. Attorney in Washington, Kentucky, in 1833. Law partner of John A. McClung from 1835 to 1850. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mason County in 1836. Commonwealth's Attorney from 1839 to 1850. Member of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from Mason County from 1857 to 1861. Owned four enslaved persons in Maysville in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861 to 1867. Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1863 to 1867.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, p. 104B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, p. 321.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville Wards 1, 2 & 3, p. 4B.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville Ward 1, p. 398A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Scott County Marriages, 1803-1883, Film #000183225, p. 145.

The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 215.

W. M. Paxton, The Marshall Family: Or a Genealogical Chart of the Descendants of John Marshall and Elizabeth Markham, His Wife, Sketches of Individuals and Notices of Families Connected with Them (Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1885), 182-83.

Citation

Taylor, Harrison. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32202519 (November 12, 2026).

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Documents (8)

Petition
C. B. Anderson et al. to James F. Robinson
1863-08-26
Correspondence
H. A. McCaleb et al. to Thomas E. Bramlette
1865-05-08
Correspondence
H. Taylor and F. B. Trussell to Thomas E. Bramlette
1863-10-19
Correspondence
H. Taylor to James F. Robinson
1862-08-29
Correspondence
James Artus to G. L. Forman and H. Taylor
1861-01-18
Correspondence
W. C. Halbert to H. Taylor
1863-10-15
Correspondence
W. H. Savage to Taylor
1862-08-25
Correspondence
William S. Botts et al. to James F. Robinson

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