Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 3rd ed., 
1886. Metcalfe County.

BENJAMIN F. TAYLOR, M. D., is a native of Adair County, Ky., born 
November 18, 1854.  His father, George M. Taylor, was born in Adair 
County, where he yet resides. His age is about sixty-three years.  His 
life has been spent mostly in agricultural pursuits.  His wife, the 
mother of Dr. B. F. Taylor, was Mary J. McLain, daughter of Robert 
McLain. To this marriage were born nine children.  George W. Taylor, the 
father of George M., was a native of North Carolina, and came to 
Kentucky with his parents when a lad of ten years; they located in Adair 
County, where George W. grew to manhood, and married Kittie F. Jones, 
whose parents were of English birth. George W. Taylor spent his life in 
the ministry, having preached the gospel for more than fifty-four years, 
in the Methodist Church.  He was among the pioneers and was well known 
as an efficient and worthy divine who preached the Word with power and 
worked for the Master with a zeal commensurate with the importance of 
his mission.  Dr. B. F. Taylor received a common school education, and 
at the age of fifteen years entered the Columbia Male and Female High 
School in Adair County, where he spent a year in the study of the English 
literary course, after which he read medicine with Dr. U. L. Taylor for 
one year, and took his first course of lectures, after which he began to 
practice. After five years' success he entered the University of 
Louisville, from which he graduated with honors, and took his degree of 
M. D. in 1878. He then located in Bridgeport, Metcalfe County, where he 
has ever since been engaged in a lucrative and successful practice. He 
married, on the 12th of October, 1873, Mattie Pendleton, of Metcalfe 
County, Ky.; to this union was born one son, James, October 12, 1877. He 
is the proprietor of a farm of 150 acres, which he superintends in 
connection with his other business. In politics he is a Republican and 
takes a lively interest in the political issues of the day.

Jones McLain Pendleton Taylor
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Adair Louisville-Jefferson NC 

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