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He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1832, the son of the Rev. James Barnett Taylor and Mary (Williams), and was named in honor of the early missionary to Burma, George Boardman.
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He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1832, the son of the Rev. James Barnett Taylor and Mary (Williams), and was named in honor of the early missionary to Burma, George Boardman.
He was graduated from Richmond College in 1851.
He taught a year in an old-field school in Fluvanna County, and then went to the University of Virginia for three years.
He had early joined the Baptist Church and while at the University preached regularly to a rural congregation. He was ordained to the ministry in Charlottesville and in 1855 became pastor of the Franklin Square Baptist Church in Baltimore. Here in 1857-58 he assisted Dr. Franklin Wilson in editing the Christian Review. He left Baltimore in November 1857 to become pastor of the Baptist Church in Staunton, Va.
Through the years of his ministry in Staunton Taylor taught in several schools in the city and wrote a number of books for Sunday school libraries--notably a series called the Oakland Stories--to supplement a dwindling salary in the support of a growing family. With the outbreak of the Civil War he was elected captain of a company of home guards in Staunton and for a time was chaplain of the 25th Virginia Regiment in Stonewall Jackson's command. For two years (1869 - 71) he was chaplain at the University of Virginia and in the summer of 1870 he went with his brother Charles on a tour through England, France, and Italy. In this same year he published a historical novel, Walter Ennis, depicting the struggles of the Baptists for religious liberty in eighteenth-century Virginia.
From the University he returned to his pastorate in Staunton, and here, in 1872, at a meeting of the Baptist General Association of Virginia there was launched the Memorial Movement to raise $300, 000 for the endowment of Richmond College, which his father had helped to found. Taylor bore a large share in this campaign and on release from his church traveled in the North collecting funds. While engaged in this effort he was appointed by the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention as missionary to Rome, to continue the work recently undertaken in that city. Reaching his post in the summer of 1873 he found that the mission consisted of a day and night school among the poor, a discharged evangelist, and a missionary who was released the week after his arrival.
The rest of his life was given to an unremitting effort to spread the Baptist faith in Roman Catholic Italy. In 1878 he dedicated a chapel in Rome and returned to the United States to raise the money to pay for it. Occasional furloughs home, the longest in 1885-87 when he again served for two years as chaplain of the University of Virginia, were the only interruptions in his thirty-four years of missionary work. He saw Baptist congregations grow up in many of the cities of Italy and numerous native preachers go out from the theological school he had helped establish in Rome. At this school he continued to teach systematic theology, in spite of frail health and increasing deafness.
In 1872 Taylor published Life and Times of James B. Taylor.
In 1906 he had a fall, breaking a small bone in his hip; he remained cheerful in spirit, but after this accident his strength declined, and the following year he died. He was buried beside his wife, in Rome, in the Protestant Cemetery.
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During his last two years he was a member of the commission for the revision of the Italian New Testament (for the British and Foreign Bible Society).
He was married on May 13, 1858, to Susan Spotswood Braxton, of Fredericksburg, daughter of Carter Braxton and Elizabeth Teackle Mayo. She was a bright, devout, tender woman with the heritage of the Virginia aristocracy, and gave her husband heartening companionship and help until her death in Rome, March 7, 1884. Of their eight children, two sons and two daughters survived their parents.