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He was born at Starkey, Yates County, N. Y. , in 1819, the eldest of five children of James and Maria (Wickes) Taylor. His father was a lawyer, the son of an Englishman who had served in Burgoyne's army.
Taylor was graduated from Hamilton College in 1838 and soon settled in Cincinnati, where he combined the study of law with journalism.
He established the Cincinnati Morning Signal in 1846 and later edited a newspaper at Sandusky. He was a representative at the second Ohio constitutional convention, 1850-51; secretary of a commission to revise the judicial code of the state, 1851-52; and head of the Ohio state library, 1854-56.
In 1856 he established a law office in Saint Paul, Minnesota Territory. Already the author of The Victim of Intrigue (1847), a defense of Senator John Smith of Ohio in relation to the Burr conspiracy; a competently done History of the State of Ohio (1854), covering the period to 1787; and a Manual of the Ohio School System (1857), he took an active part in discussions preceding the first constitutional convention of Minnesota.
As secretary of the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad he urged upon the state legislature the passage of a "Five Million Loan" to railroads distressed by the panic of 1857.
Sensing the growing importance of the Canadian Northwest, he made a report to the Minnesota legislature on Northwest British America and Its Relations to the State of Minnesota (1860). In 1859 he had been appointed a special agent of the Treasury Department, charged with investigating trade and transportation between the United States and Canada, and in 1860 with I. T. Hatch of New York state he reported on the reciprocity treaty of 1854. In 1862 he reported on relations between the United States and Northwest British America, and in a later study proposed a union of the United States and British America.
With J. Ross Browne he published Reports upon the Mineral Resources of the United States (1867).
After leaving the service of the Treasury Department (1869) he became an agent for the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad and for the Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad, composing newspaper articles and helping with congressional legislation.
The outbreak of discontent in Canada in the Red River Rebellion of 1869-70 brought him an appointment as special agent for the State Department. In 1870 he became American consul at Winnipeg.
Through his discovery of plans for a Fenian attack from the United States upon Manitoba (1871), the authorities were enabled to check the movement immediately.
Later, in 1885, when Saskatchewan half-breeds rose against the Dominion government, he prevented assistance to them from Indians in the United States. His valuable service and loose political attachments secured his retention under both Republican and Democratic administrations until his death at Winnipeg from paralysis.
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He was a gentleman of charming personality.
His wife, Chloe Sweeting Langford, whom he married in 1845, bore him four daughters, two of whom survived him.