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MATTHEW J. TAYLOR, farmer, post office Wilkinsburg, is a grandson of Samuel Taylor, who came from the eastern part of Pennsylvania some time previous to 1796, that being the date of the land-patent. He was of Scotch descent; served in the American army during the Revolution, and died early in this century, at an advanced age. Mr. McCown, maternal grandfather of Matthew J., came here from Ireland soon after Samuel Taylor. Hugh Taylor, son of Samuel, married Nancy, daughter of Mr. McCown, and to them was born, in 1833, the subject of this sketch. Mrs. Jamieson, mother of Samuel Taylor’s wife, was killed and scalped by the Indians in this county. Hugh Taylor remained all his life on this farm, and died in 1863, aged seventy-seven years. He was a Covenanter, a whig, an abolitionist and a republican. He had sons and daughters, as follows, all of whom but one grew to maturity: Samuel J., an architect, who died in 1886, at Wilkinsburg; James H., a farmer, residing at Athens, Mo.; John, a plasterer, at East Liberty; William M., a plasterer, killed on the P. B. B., Aug. 28, 1888; Matthew J.; Charles C., an attorney, who died in Pittsburgh; Eliza J., who died unmarried; Sarah N., at home. Samuel J., William M., Charles C., James H. and John were Union soldiers during the civil war. Matthew J. has always remained on the home farm. He married, in 1869, Sarah J. Scott, born in Elizabeth township, a daughter of Col. James and Mary (Kirk) Scott, of Irish and Scotch descent, and they have three children: Corinne M., James Marshall and Mary Agnes. The family are associated with Beulah Presbyterian Church; Mr. Taylor is a republican.