From "The History of North Washington" Published 1904

Transcribed by: Nancy Grubb (nancyg@theofficenet.com)
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WILLIAM J. TAYLOR 
William J. Taylor is a thrifty and well to do farmer and dairyman residing
three miles west from Valley. He has a generous estate of four hundred and 
fifty acres,which is divided between hay, general farming, pasture, and 
timber and which in every department manifests the painstaking care of the 
proprietor, who was wrought out a model place from the wilderness. He owns 
about forty head of cattle, twenty-five head of sheep and other stock. Mr. 
Taylor is increasing his dairy products and is a first class producer in 
this important branch.
   William J. Taylor was born in Lincolnshire,England, on August 12,1855,
the son of Edward and Sarah (Moisey) Taylor,natives also of England. They
remained in their native land until death and had been the parents of three
children, Sarah Parker, Mary Longland, and W.J.,our subject. The educational
training of our subject was received in his native land and he remained 
under the parental roof until he had attained his eighteenth year. Then Mr.
Taylor determined to try his fortune in the new world and accordingly came
to America,locating in Buffalo, New York, where he remained for five years.
Then he went to Becker county, Minnesota,where he remained six years. The
year 1884 marks the date when Mr. Taylor came to Washington. He located first
in Sprague where he was employed as salesman in a general merchandise estab-
lishment for four years. Then he took up dairying and for a decade did real 
well at it. At the end of that period he came to his present location and
has been here assiduously engaged in the occupations mentioned since that 
time. He has met with success and his prosperity is the result of his energy,
wisdom and thrift.
   In 1876 Mr. Taylor married Miss Christina Tanner, who died in 1889,leaving
six children: Ed,married and living in Stevens county; William; Lewis; Emma;
Ernest; and Charles,deceased. In 1894 Mr. Taylor married Mrs. Jennie Craven,
widow of Walter Craven. She had three children by her former husband; Alice;
Nellie,wife of Lew Weathernox; and Bessie, wife of Ralph Slocum, the last two
in Stevens county. Mr. Taylor is an active and well informed Democrat and
always evinces an interest in the questions of the day. He is a member of the
A.F.& A.M., while mrs.Taylor is a member of the Eastern Star and the
Methodist church.    
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