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Albert F. Taylor, one of the most extensive farmers and stock dealers of Craighead County, was born in Henderson County, Tenn., in 1824. His parents, Abner and Mary (Baker) Taylor, were natives of East Tennessee, where the father was a prosperous and successful farmer. About 1820 they moved to Western Tennessee, where, being owner of a number of slaves, he engaged extensively in farming. The father died in the ‘‘Old Volunteer State,’’ and the mother came with her family to Arkansas, where she died a few years thereafter. They were the parents of four children, Albert F. being the second child, and the only one now living. He came with his mother to Arkansas in 1838, and located on Crowley’s Ridge, now in this county, where he remained for six years, and then moved to Maumelle Prairie, near where he is now living. There he purchased and improved a large farm, and remained on it for sixteen years, and then came to his present location. Since coming to this county he has put in cultivation over 600 acres of land, and now owns over 3,000 acres, with about 500 on the home place, where there are forty acres in clover and timothy meadow, good residence, tenant house, orchards and barns. He has 150 head of cattle, and in connection with his farm operates a cotton-gin. He was married in 1852 to Elizabeth Snodderly, born in Tennessee, who is the mother of seven children, one, Jennie, deceased. Those living are Alanson L., Fergus W., William, Albert F., Jr., John P. and Thomas W. Mr. Taylor is a member of the A. F. & A. M., is a Democrat in politics, and in the late war served eighteen months in the Confederate army.