DAVID A. TAYLOR, Station Agent C., M. & St. P. R. R., Blue River; he was born in Platteville Oct. 22, 1851; he is a son of J. L. Taylor and Catherine Mather, a native of Canada and his father of Virginia. His ancestors were among the early settlers of that State. They (parents) moved to New York State and settled near Buffalo, where he engaged in farming; they came to Wisconsin in 1840, and located upon a farm near Platteville; his home has been in this county ever since; afterward moved to Blake's Prairie, which was his home until 1865, when he moved to Muscoda. He was in the late war; lost a leg at the battle of the Wilderness, where he was taken prisoner, and was in the field hospital one month and eleven days, when he was recaptured. David Taylor has been in the employ of the St. Paul road some five years. Married, Nov. 8, 1871, to Miss Susan Northey, by whom he has one daughter, born July 25, 1872, named Alta.

This biography generously submitted by Roxanne Munns.