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Edmund Haynes Taylor Jr. (Franklin County, Kentucky, banker and distiller)

b. 1830-02-12 d. 1923-01-19

Franklin County, Kentucky, clerk, banker, and distiller. Columbus, Kentucky, native. Son of John Eastin Taylor and Rebecca Edrington Taylor. Adopted son of Edmund Haynes Taylor Sr and Martha S. Taylor. Married to Frances Miller Johnson Taylor on December 21, 1852. Father of Jacob Swigert Taylor, Mary Belle Taylor Price, Rebecca F. Taylor Kline, Eugenia Taylor, Kenner Taylor, and Margaret Johnson Taylor Fall. Attended Boyer's French School in New Orleans, Louisiana. Attended B. B. Sayer's Academy in Frankfort, Kentucky. Clerk in Franklin County in 1850. Household owned nineteen slaves in Franklin County in 1850. Cashier for the Versailles Branch of the Commercial Bank of Kentucky. Banker at Taylor, Turner & Company in Lexington. Resident in Franklin County in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 105B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, District 2, p. 902-3.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 249.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Franklin County, Frankfort, p. 137A.

"Illness Fatal to Col. Taylor, Noted Stockman," The News Democrat, (KY), January 20, 1923.

"Colonel Edmund Haynes Taylor, Jr. Biography," Buffalo Trace Distillery, accessed February 2, 2022, https://www.buffalotracedistillery.com/media-kit/bios/colonel-ddmund-haynes-taylor-jr.html.

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Taylor Edmund Haynes, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210376 (November 12, 2026).

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