| William A. Taylor
"Born: Perry Co., O., April 25, 1837. Commencing to write prose and verse at the age of fifteen. Mr. Taylor taught school at intervals for the following six years, at the same time being editor and part proprietor of Perry County Democrat. At the age of twenty-one he was admitted to the bar, practiced law for four years in connection with editorial work, and was also state's attorney a part of the same time. He then became one of the editorial writers of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Taylor served in the army of the Potomac durng the war, after the close of which he resumed editorial work on the Enquirer. He was chief editorial writer of Pittsburg Post for eight years subsequent to 1868. He next was employed successively on the New York Sun for two years; then on the New York World for a period; next was managing editor of the Pittsburg Telegraph for nearly two years; and then became editoral manager of Columbus Democrat and Times for several years." [Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 74 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)][online text][In Herringhsaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century 919 (Chicago: American Publishers' Assoc., 1898), Taylor is referred to as a "journalist, poet, lawyer [and] politician." He is reported to have commenced his writing of prose and verse at the age of fifteen.] |
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