JEPHTAH H. TAYLOR
Jepthah H. Taylor was born near Plain City, in Madison County, December 17, 1814. His parents, Richard and Polly (Cox) Taylor were natives of Berkeley County, Va., and Washington County, Penn., respectively. They were married in Cynthiana, Ky., in February 1800, and two years later removed and settled in Jerome Township. In 1803-4, they went back to Kentucky, where they resided till 1811, and returned to Ohio, affecting a settlement in Darby Township, Madison County, where Mr. Taylor bought a farm of 200 acres. His death occurred in July 1864. The subject of this notice is the third son and sixth of a family of seven children. At the age of thirteen he learned tailoring in Bellefontaine, and followed it in that place and Plain City for sixteen years. In 1847, his father gave him eighty acres of land, to which he made an addition of forty-seven acres. He cleared and principally improved these farms. December 19, 1839, he was married to Angeline, a daughter of Calvin and Eunice Allen, by whom he had eleven children. Of these seven are living-Richard, born October 17, 1840, died September 26, 1866 ; Edwin, born May 14, 1842 ; Benjamin, October 1.5, 1843 ; Robert, April 12, 1845; Jephtah, March 18, 1847: Fielding, January 25,1849 ; Laura A., October 16, 1851 ; Celinda E., June 7, 1853; Mary A., March 20, 1859; Anthony M., February 6, 1864. An infant is deceased. Mr. Taylor is of English descent on his father's side, his great-grandfather and two brothers having emigrated to America long before the Revolutionary war. Mrs. Taylor is of Scotch ancestry.