Person

Nicholas Brink Taylor (Louisville, Kentucky, merchant)

b. 1828 d. 1900-04-06

Louisville, Kentucky, merchant. Native of Canada. Married to Cynthia Hagaman Taylor. Father of James Truman Taylor. Married to Mary Ann Fielding O'Conner Taylor in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 15, 1860. Animal feed merchant in Louisville in 1860. Household owned six enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Household hired an additional four enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Merchant in partnership with Daniel M. Jones in Jones & Taylor in Louisville in 1861. Merchant in partnership with Victor Oster in Louisville in 1861. Partner with Frank Fielding in F. Fielding & Company in Louisville in 1862. Wholesale merchant in N. B. & Company in Louisville in 1862. Animal feed merchant in Louisville in 1863. Held a contract with the United States to supply animal feed in Louisville from November 1862, to April 1, 1863. Wholesale dealer in N.B. Taylor & Company in Albany County, New York, in 1864 and 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p.333-4.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, District 6, p. 280A.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll 994040, Jefferson County Marriages.

Union Provost Marshal's File of Paper Relating to Individual Citizens, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M345, Roll 0263.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 11, Jefferson County, Kentucky, 1862.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Roll 53, Albany County, New York, 1865, p. 113.

"Notice," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), February 14, 1862, p. 2.

"N.B. Taylor & Co.", The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), August 15, 1862, p. 4.

"Business Cards," The Louisville Daily Journal, (Louisville, KY), February 21, 1863, p. 4.

Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), xiv, 134, 243.

Peters, Edmond Frank and Eleanor Bradley Peters, ed. Peters of New England: A Genealogy, and Family History, (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1903), 245.

"Nicholas B. Taylor (1825-1900)," Find A Grave, Memorial 206249751 , accessed May 26, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206249751 .

Citation

Taylor, Nicholas Brink. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207678 (November 12, 2026).

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