Biographical Sketches of Monroe County Residents

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Frank TAYLOR

pages 1109-1110

Frank TAYLOR, president of the UNION TRUST COMPANY OF ROCHESTER, was born October 4, 1844, at Stoddard, New Hampshire. His parents were Jacob and Mary (HAMDEN) TAYLOR. The former was a distinguished citizen of the old Granite state and represented his district in both houses of the legislature. Frank Taylor had one brother, George TAYLOR, who died in 1889, and a sister, Mrs. Mary A. WOODBURY.

Reared under the parental roof in a home where education and culture are valued at their true worth, he was provided with the opportunity of attending the public schools and the academy of his native town. His removal to Rochester when a young man of eighteen years, was followed by the establishment of the TAYLOR BROTHERS THERMOMETER works on Hill street. From a small beginning they built up an extensive enterprise, Frank TAYLOR continuing in business until 1900, when he became president of the UNION TRUST COMPANY and relegated the direction of the thermometer works to other members of the firm although still retaining his financial interest. In the meantime he had extended his efforts to the fields of financial operation and is today at the head of one of the strong moneyed institutions of the city in the presidency of the UNION TRUST COMPANY.

Mr. TAYLOR was married in 1875 to Miss Mary J. AVERILL, and they have a family of six children: Grace, Mary A., Ruth E., Laura K., Raymond A. and George H. His interest centers in his home and his circle of friends is select rather than large but those who know him in that relation find in him a most congenial and interesting companion. He spends a large part of the year at his summer home at Manitou Beach, where he indulges his favorite hobby at the expense of the finny inhabitants of the lake. Politically he is a democrat and in Freemasonry has attained the thirty-second degree of the Scottish Rite. He is recognized as one of the safe, conservative business men of Rochester, who has built up both his commercial and banking interests by strict attention to business and unremitting energy.