Dr. J. S. Taylor, physician and surgeon of Steele City, Jefferson county, Nebraska, has been successfully engaged in practice here since 1888, and has gained the confidence of the people in his ability and their patronage. He was a very young man when he settled here for practice, and he still has the greater part and most useful part of his career before him. He is a well read man in his profession, and his success as a practitioner has not kept him from advancing in knowledge as well as experience.
Dr. Taylor was born in Huntington county, Indiana, in 1866, a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of the county. His great-grandfather, Robert Taylor, and his great-grandmother both came from Ireland. The former fought in the Revolutionary war in South Carolina. They lived about twenty-five miles from Charleston, near Laurens Court House, from which place after the death of the great-grandfather the great-grandmother, in 1808, emigrated to Indiana, which was then a territory. In that commonwealth she rear her family of four sons and one daughter, and all lived and died there. Dr. Taylor's grandfather died in Franklin county, Indiana, about fifty miles west of Cincinnati in 1867. Richard T. Taylor, the father of Dr. Taylor, was born in Franklin county, Indiana. He came to Huntington county in early manhood, and married Miss Salinda A. First, of Bluffton, Wells county, Indiana, a daughter of Jacob First, who came from Pennsylvania to Wells county in 1833. Richard T. Taylor and wife moved from Indiana to Nodaway county, Missouri, near Marysville, where the former died. He affiliated with the Masonic order, and was a member of the Baptist church for forty years. His wife is still living in the old home in Nodaway county. They had three children: James A. is on the old farm in Missouri; J. S.; and G. O., who is in the drug business in Steele City.
Dr. Taylor was reared on a farm, where he developed ample strength for his present arduous profession. He was educated in the public schools and in the high school at Maryville. He was a student for some time under Dr. Hockendon at Maryville, who is now a well known physician of Gallia, Ohio, and he attended the College of Medicine at Louisville, Kentucky, where he was graduated in the class of 1888, standing high among the one hundred and two graduates. Since coming to Steele City he has been faithfully attentive to his duties and has gained a creditable reputation for skill and sympathetic counsel.
In 1889 Dr. Taylor was married at Maryville, Missouri, to Miss Rosa Alexander, who was born, reared, and educated in that city, a daughter of John Alexander and Lucinda (Poole) Alexander, the former of whom died in 1900. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor have one son, Lloyd S., eleven years old. Dr. Taylor has a fine home in Steele City, with a beautiful lawn and shade trees, and is surrounded with many comforts. He is a lover of fine horses, and his horse, Aldentier No. 35285 is a fine specimen of roadster, and he owns others of standard breed. Dr. Taylor is a member of the State Medical Society, and stands high in Masonic circles in this vicinity.
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