Background
Taylor, William Alexander was born on April 25, 1837 in Perry Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas and Mary (Owens) Taylor.
Taylor, William Alexander was born on April 25, 1837 in Perry Company, Ohio, United States. Son of Thomas and Mary (Owens) Taylor.
Public school education.
In newspaper work, 1865-1910. Foreign 25 years on staff Cincinnati Enquirer. Democratic candidate for secretary of state, Ohio, 1892, for lieutenant governor, 1893, defeated by a small majority.
Author: Eighteen Presidents and Contemporaneous Rulers, 1876.
Primary Tariff Lessons, 1878. The Peril of the Republic, 1885.
Roses and Rue, 1892. Ohio Statesmen, 1900.
Ohio in Congress, 1901. Intermere, 1902; The Evolution of the Statesman, 1905.
Principal author, The Book of Ohio, 1902. Twilight of Dawn, 1903.
The Next Morning Philosopher, 1903.
Evolution of the Statesman, 1905. Ohio and Its People—A History of the State of Ohio (4 volumes), 1910. Appointed commissioner of soldiers’ claims for State of Ohio, April 1910.
Home: Columbus, Ohio.
Married Jane Allen Tarrier, November 10, 1870.