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Below is a family biography included in The History of East Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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H. L. W. Taylor, farmer and stock raiser of the Twelfth District, was born in Jefferson County, Tenn., July 14, 1852, the son of Parmenas and Sarah (Moore) Taylor. The father was born in Jefferson County, January 18, 1821, and the mother, December 18, 1824, in the same county. The grandfather, Col. Parmenas Taylor, was a frontier settler of East Tennessee. Our subject was reared on the farm, and received his education at Morristown, Tenn., in the Reagan High School. He became a pedagogue at eighteen, and taught four years in Jefferson County. In May, 1872, he became the husband of Emma, daughter of James Harrison, of this county. Of the three sons and one daughter, Laura, Arthur and Frank are living. Our subject did not bury his one talent, and now owns and cultivates a farm of 300 acres on the north bank of French Broad River, and also has 279 acres of timbered land. He is an enterprising, self-made man, and is a Master Mason, and member of the K. of H. He is a Democrat.
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