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Taylor Family Papers

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Held at: Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division [Contact Us]

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
C0611
Repository:
Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Extent:
  • 2 boxes
  • 0.8 linear feet
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Taylor Family Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Date:
1865-1890 (bulk) and 1850-1904 (inclusive)
Creator:
Taylor, Joseph D. (Joseph Danner) (1830-1899)
Form:
Commonplace books -- 19th century, Correspondence -- 19th century, Family papers. -- 19th century, and Libri amicorum
Abstract:
Contains miscellaneous nineteenth-century papers of several members of the Taylor family.

Taylor

Joseph D. Taylor, grandfather of Robert Hill Taylor (Princeton Class of 1930) and a teacher and lawyer, served five terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio. During the Civil War, Taylor was a captain in the Eighty-Eighth Regiment of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

The collection contains correspondence of Joseph D. Taylor (grandfather of Robert Hill Taylor, Princeton Class of 1930) of Cambridge, Ohio, and his wife, Elizabeth Ann (Hill) Taylor, from their marriage in 1866 to her death in 1887; correspondence with their children William and Gertrude; letters by Elizabeth Ann to her father, William Hill of Maine, and two of her commonplace books; an autograph album presented to Elizabeth Ann in 1850; a journal of a train trip from Trenton, N.J., to Washington, D.C., in 1865; a scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1859-1860); two letters (1868, 1889) by Rutherford B. Hayes to Joseph D. Taylor; and miscellaneous correspondence and documents of other members of the Taylor and Hill families.

Arranged in the following sections: Elizabeth Ann Hill Taylor, Joseph D. Taylor, Gertrude Taylor, William Hill Taylor, Caro M. Taylor, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Hill, newspaper clippings.

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Folder list written by Lisa Yankowitz ('13) in 2012.

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Publisher
Manuscripts Division
Finding Aid Date
2008
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

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Collection Inventory

Checklist and Biographies, 1985-2000. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to William Hill, 1872-1873. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to William Hill, 1874. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to William Hill, 1875. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to William Hill, 1876. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to William Hill, 1877. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to William Hill, 1878-1881. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to Joseph D. Taylor, 1865. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to Joseph D. Taylor, 1866. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to Joseph D. Taylor, 1867. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to Joseph D. Taylor, 1882-1884. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Letters to Joseph D. Taylor, 1885. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Correspondence with John E. Butler, 1863-1866. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes miscellaneous poetry

Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Miscellaneous Sent Letters, 1867-1883. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes letters to David D. Taylor, William Hobbs, Jennie, and William & Mollie

Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Miscellaneous Received Letters, 1866-1885. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Ella Betts, El Cooper, Hanna, Charles E. Hill, Edward Hill, and Marry (Hill) Hobbs

Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Elizabeth Ann Hill, Journals and Albums, 1850-1865. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Taylor, Joseph D., Letters to Elizabeth Ann Hill Taylor, 1864-1885. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Taylor, Joseph D., Letters to William Hill, 1875-1881. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Taylor, Joseph D., Letters to William and Gertrude Taylor, 1881-1885. 1 folder.
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1 folder

Taylor, Joseph D., Letters to George Fox, 1890. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Joseph D., Miscellaneous Received Letters, 1866-1891. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Joseph D., Miscellaneous Papers, 1886-1896. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Includes stocks, receipts, certificate, speeches, and documents

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1 folder

Taylor, Gertrude, Letters to Parents and Grandfather, 1881-1885. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Daughter of Elizabeth Ann and Joseph D. Taylor

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1 folder

Taylor, William Hill, Letters to Parents, 1883-1891. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Son of Elizabeth Ann and Joseph D. Taylor

Physical Description

1 folder

Taylor, Caro M., Miscellaneous Papers, 1896-1904. 1 folder.
Scope and Contents

Second wife of Joseph D. Taylor

Physical Description

1 folder

Hayes, Rutherford B., Letters to Joesph D. Taylor, 1868-1889. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Hill, William, Miscellaneous Papers, 1881. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

Newspaper Clippings and Notebook, 1859-1923. 1 folder.
Physical Description

1 folder

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