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TAYLOR, Thomas House, b. in Georgetown, S. C, 18 Oct., 1799; d. in West Park, N. Y., 9 Sept., 1867. He was graduated at South Carolina college in 1818, received deacon's orders in the Protestant Episcopal church in 1821, had a charge at North Santee, S. C, was ordained priest at St. John's, Colleton. John's island, S. C, on 16 March, . 1826, and was rector of the church in that place until he was called to succeed Dr. Jonathan M. Wainwright in Grace church, New York city, in April, 1834, of which he was rector from that time until his death. He was distinguished as a writer and debater, and in the controversy over the ritual and liturgy which divided his church he was a representative of the Low-church party. A volume of his " Sermons preached in Grace Church " was published after his death (New York, 1869).

TAYLOR, Virgil Corydon, musician, b. in Barkhamstead, Conn., in 1817. He was long an organist at Hartford, Conn., where he wrote arti- cles on political subjects for the newspapers. He endeavored to introduce in musical notation an in- dex-staff in which the key-note occupies a heavier line or a wider space. He published collections of sacred and secular songs, containing many compo- sitions by himself. Their titles are " Sacred Min- strel " (1846) ; " The Lute, or Musical Instructor " (1847); "Choral Anthems" (1850); "The Golden Lyre " (1850) ; " Concordia " (1851) ; " The Chime " (1854); "The Celestina" (1856); "The Song Fes- tival " (1858) ; "The Enchanter "(1861): " The Con- certina " (1864) ; and " The Praise Offering " (1868).

TAYLOR, Waller, senator, b. in Lunenburg county, Va., before 1786 ; d. in Lunenburg, Va., 26 Aug., 1826. He received a common-school educa- tion, studied law, served one or two terms in the Virginia legislature as the representative of Lunen- burg county, and settled in Vincennes, Ind., in 1805, having been appointed a territorial judge. He served as aide-de-camp to Gen. William H. Harrison at the battle of Tippecanoe, and in the war of 1812-'15. On the admission of Indiana as a state he was elected U. S. senator, and at the close of his term was re-elected, serving from 12 Dec, 1816, till 3 March, 1825.

TAYLOR, Walter Herron, soldier, b. in Nor- folk, Va., 13 June, 1838. He was educated at the Virginia military institute, and became a mer- chant and banker. He joined the Confederate army on the secession of Virginia, and was on the staff of Gen. Robert E. Lee during the entire period of the civil war, and from the time that Gen. Lee assumed command of the Army of Northern Vir- ginia, served as adjutant-general of that army, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel. After the war he resumed the banking business at Norfolk, Va., where he has held municipal offices, and was elected to the state senate, of which he was a mem- ber from 1869 till 1873. He is the author of " Four Years with Gen. Lee " (New York, 1878).

TAYLOR, William, M. E. bishop, b. in Rock- bridge county, Va., 2 May, 1821. He was brought up as a farmer and tanner, became a Methodist preacher in 1842, was admitted on trial to the Bal- timore conference in March, 1843, and was an itin- erant till 1849, when he was sent to California as a missionary by the missionary society of the Meth- odist Episcopal church. After laboring there for seven years and for five years in Canada and the eastern states, he went to Europe in 1862, spending seven months in evangelistic work in the British islands, and then travelling over the continent and in Egypt and the Holy Land. For the next three years he conducted missionary services throughout Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. He after- ward visited South Africa, and converted many of the Kaffirs to Christianity, going thence to Great Britain, where he conducted special services for about a year. He next made the tour of the Meth- odist missions in the West Indies, visited Austra- lia a second time, and then spent some time in Ceylon, crossing over in 1872 to In- dia, where within four years he suc- ceeded in estab- lishing self-sup- porting churches in Bombay, Poo- nah, Jubbulpore, Agra, Calcutta, Madras, Banga- lore, Secundera- bad, and else- where. As a re- sult of his labors the South India conference and the Madras con- ference have been organized. He

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afterward to educational and evangelistic work in Central America and in Brazil, Chili, and Peru, and there also he founded independent mission churches. These self-supporting missions, which he began to establish in 1878, now occupy as cen- tres Aspinwall, Callao, Iquique, Coquimbo, San- tiago, Concepcion, Pernambuco, and Para. On 22 May, 1884, he was elevated to the episcopal office under the title of missionary bishop in Africa. Go- ing to Central Africa, he established a chain of thirty-six mission stations on the Congo, extending 1,200 miles and 390 miles along the west coast, and employing seventy missionaries, who are supported by voluntary contributions of American Methodists until self-support can be developed from school- farms. In 1888 Bishop Taylor revisited the United States on the occasion of the general conference held in New York in May. He has published " Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco " (New York, 1856; London, 1863); "Address to Young America, and a Word to the Old Folks" (1857); "California Life Illustrated" (New York, 1858; London, 1863) ; " The Model Preacher " (Cincinnati, 1860 ; London, 1865) ; " Reconciliation, or How to be Saved " (1867) : " Infancy and Manhood of Christian Life " (1867) ; " The Election of Grace " (Cincinnati, 1868); "Christian Adventures in South Africa" (1867) ; " Four Years' Campaign in India " (1875) ; " Our South American Cousins" (1878) ; "Letters to a Quaker Friend on Baptism" (1880); "Ten Years of Self-Supporting Missions in India " (1882) ; and " Pauline Methods of Missionary Work " (1889).

TAYLOR, William Bower, physicist, b. in Philadelphia, Pa., 23 May, 1821. He was graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1840, and after studying law was admitted to the Philadelphia bar in 1844. Subsequently he studied civil engineering, but he has always been more attracted to literary pursuits or scientific investigations. In 1854 he was made an examiner in the T. S. patent-office in Washington, where he remained until 1877. He was appointed editor of the publications of the Smithsonian institution in 1878, which place he has since held. Mr. Taylor is a member of the Philosophical societies of Philadelphia and Washington, and, in addition to reviews and magazine articles, has published, through the medium of the Smithsonian reports, memoirs