William Davis Taylor

Background

Taylor, William Davis was born on April 2, 1908 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Osgood and Mary (Moseley) Taylor.

Education

Student, Harvard University, 1931. Doctor of Laws, Colby College, 1968. Doctor of Laws, Framingham State College, 1983.

Doctor of Journalism, Suffolk University, 1974. Doctor of Humane Services, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, 1975.

Career

With, Globe Newspaper Company, since 1931; treasurer, Globe Newspaper Company, 1937-1940; general manager, Globe Newspaper Company, 1940; public, Boston Globe, 1955-1994; also Chairman of the Board, Boston Globe, 1963-1994; retired, Boston Globe, 1994; Chairman of the Board, director, Affiliated Publs., Inc. Director Met-Sunday Newspapers, Inc., New York City, Million Market Newspapers, Inc.

Achievements

• William Davis Taylor has been listed as a noteworthy Newspaperman by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Past Chairman of the Board American Commercial Fish Exposition, Inc. Member Executive Board Boston council Boy Scouts American. Board directors American Cancer Society, Hurricane Island Outward Bound School.

Board overseers Harvard, Vineyard Open Land Foundation. Past president United States Ship Constitution Museum, Charlestown, Massachusetts. Past president of the board of trustees Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Member American Newspaper Publications Association (past president and director), SEA (associate Woods Hole, Massachusetts chapter). M C.

Connections

Married Mary Hammond, 1931 (deceased 1947). Children: William Osgood, Anna Taylor Freeman. Married Ann C. Macy, November 1947.

Children: Thomas Macy, Margaret Moseley (Mistress Richard Kane), Wendy Elizabeth (Mistress William Patriquin), James Morgan.

Father:

William Osgood Taylor

Mother:

Mary (Moseley) Taylor

Spouse:

Mary Hammond

Spouse:

Ann C. Macy

child:

James Morgan Taylor

child:

Thomas Macy Taylor

child:

Anna Taylor Freeman Taylor

child:

William Osgood Taylor

child:

Margaret Moseley Taylor (Mistress Richard Kane)

child:

Wendy Elizabeth Taylor (Mistress William Patriquin)