Background
Taylor was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Joseph E. Taylor and his wife Lisette Williams.
Taylor was born in Salt Lake City, Utah to Joseph E. Taylor and his wife Lisette Williams.
He studied at Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) College (the predecessor of Latter- Day Saints (Mormons) Business College and then in Chicago at Harvey Medical College"s School of Embalming.
Taylor himself then served as the third president of the Japanese Mission. This was a contributing factor to Grant recruiting Taylor to go with him to open the Japanese Mission in 1901. Louis A. Kelsch and Horace South. Ensign were the other two missionaries who went with Grant.
He also went to China to investigate the possibility of opening missionary work there but recommended against doing southern
In 1909 Taylor returned to Salt Lake City. In 1923 they adopted a child, Richard Taylor.
From 1939 to 1943 Taylor served as president of the Intermountain Casket Company, but he dissolved the company in the later year due to a lack of resources caused by World World War World War II
