Samuel McIntire Taylor

Samuel McIntire Taylor

Samuel McIntire Taylor (born July 24, 1856 in Champaign County , Ohio , † December 7, 1916 in Birmingham , England ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ). He was Secretary of State of Ohio from 1893 to 1897 .

Career

Samuel McIntire Taylor, son of Miriam Daniel (1822–1893) and John Taylor (1818–1898), attended county schools. His youth were overshadowed by the civil war. In 1882 he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University . During his studies he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta . He then went to Cincinnati Law School , where he graduated in 1884. Taylor settled in Urbana, Ohio. After obtaining his license to practice law, he began practicing there. In 1887 he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives for Champaign County . Taylor was re-elected in 1889 and 1891. When he was elected Secretary of State of Ohio in 1892, he resigned from his seat in Parliament. In 1894 he was re-elected. After the end of his term appointed him President William McKinley in 1897 to Consul in Glasgow ( Scotland ). During the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906 he was transferred to Callao ( Peru ), where he worked until 1910. Taylor was then appointed consul in Birmingham, England in 1913 - a position he held until his death in 1916. He died there as a result of the flu. His body was then transferred to the United States, where he was buried in Oak Dale Cemetery in Urbana.

Taylor was married to Myrta Burdsoll Brodrick, daughter of Eleanor Elizabeth Allen and Isaac Burdsoll Brodrick. The couple had at least one daughter named Miriam Elizabeth Taylor.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The Phi Gamma Delta , Volume 39, 1917, p. 519
2. ^ ^{A b} Smith, Joseph Patterson: History of the Republican Party in Ohio , Volume 1, Lewis Publishing Company, 1898, p. 632
3. ^ Ohio General Assembly: Manual of legislative practice in the General Assembly of Ohio , Westbote Company, 1917, p. 296
4. ^ Samuel McIntire Taylor in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved May 3, 2015.
5. ↑ Myrta Burdsoll Brodrick Taylor in the database of Find a Grave . Retrieved May 3, 2015.