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THOMAS TAYLOR, manager of the Pottstown Daily News, was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1845. He is the son of Mahlon and Elizabeth (Overfield) Taylor. They had nine children, seven sons and two daughters, five now living: Thomas Jefferson Taylor, Thomas Taylor, Charles D. Taylor, Mahlon G. Taylor, and Benjamin Franklin Taylor.

Mahlon Taylor (father) was born in Northampton county, Pennsylvania, and spent most of his life in Easton, where he was a shoe merchant. He retired from business twenty-five years before his death, and removed to Reading. He died in that city at the age of eighty-seven years, and his wife died in July, 1904, aged ninety-seven years. They were members of the Universalist church. Mahlon Taylor was a member of the town council of the borough of Easton, and was also a member of the state militia.

Thomas Taylor lived in Easton and New York city, and afterwards in Reading. He learned the confectioner’s trade, but abandoned it and devoted himself to the art of photographing, which he followed for a number of years. He received his schooling in Easton. He went to Pottstown in 1870, and has spent almost all his time there since that time. He is the president of the Beshore Drug Company, and is a director in the Pottstown Cold Storage and Ice Plant, and in the Pottstown Manufacturing Company. Thomas Taylor answered the emergency call during the Civil war, and was in the three months militia. He is a member of the Society of Elks. Politically he is a Republican.

In 1870 Thomas Taylor married Miss Lillian Estella Kerper, daughter of Daniel and Eliza (Boas) Kerper. They had four children, as follows: Edward Livingston, died at the age of six years; Florence, died at the age of three months; Pearl, married George L. Egolf; Maud, resides with her parents.

Mrs. Lillian E. Taylor died December 20, 1901, at the age of fifty-four years. Her parents, both now deceased, were born in Berks county. Her maternal grandfather, Daniel Boas, was engaged in the lumber business, and was a large property owner in the city of Reading. He died at an advanced age. Her paternal grandfather was a tanner. He also died at an advanced age, and had several sons and daughters.