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CHARLES FRANCIS TALLEY, M. D.,
physician and surgeon at Powell, and physician for the State
Industrial Home for Girls at this point, was born in Concord Township,
Delaware County, Ohio, September 15, 1864. and is a son of Nelson
E. and Eliza (Edelman) Talley.
The father of Dr. Talley was born in
Pennsylvania and came to Ohio when, he was a young man, settling first
.at Prospect, in Marion County. He was of French extraction. He
married while he lived at Prospect and afterward moved to Concord
Township, in Delaware County. His family included 10 children, namely:
Sarah, residing in Concord Township; Mary, who is the
widow of Charles Vienot, residing in Scioto Township;
William, residing in Texas; Annie, deceased, was the wife of
William Spero, of Concord Township ; John
Frederick, residing at Delaware. who married Flora Oiler,
a daughter of George W. Oiler; Andrew Jackson,
residing in Concord Township, who married Maggie O. Connor, of
Evansville, Indiana; Nelson R., residing at Evansville; and
Charles Francis, Two children died in infancy.
Dr. Talley was educated in the common and
high schools of Concord Township, growing to manhood on his father's
farm. In 1884, he entered the Miami Medical College at Cincinnati,
where he was graduated in 1886. In the same year he located at
Hyattsville, where he engaged in practice until the spring of 1896,
when he came to Powell, where, for full 11 years he has been
faithfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery, in the
meanwhile building up a reputation which has carried his name over all
this section of the State. He is a valued member of both the Delaware
County and the Ohio State Medical Associations. He has business
interests in this section and owns a one-third interest in The Powell
Flour and Feed Milling Company.
Dr. Talley was married to Lucy B.
Marquett, who is a daughter of Warner Marquett, of
Liberty Township. He is a Republican in his political sentiments and
fraternally he belongs to the Elks, the Knights of Pythias and the Odd
Fellows, and to Hiram Lodge, No. 18. F. & A. M., at Delaware. Dr.
Talley stands high professionally and equally so personally.
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DR. CHARLES F. TALLEY
graduated at the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 5th
day of March, 1886. He located at Hyattsville, Delaware County,
Ohio, where he is now located and is engaged in a successful practice. |
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NELSON E. TALLEY. - See
Charles Francis Talley, M. D. herein |
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A. P. TAYLOR, located in
Sunbury many years ago and later a long and successful practice he
sold out and moved to Columbus, Ohio, where he is now practicing. |
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DR. ALONZO W. TAYLOR
was born in Champaign County, Ohio. He attended the Ohio
Wesleyan University, and graduated from the Ohio Medical Eclectic
College at Cincinnati, Ohio. He located at Sunbury, Ohio, in
1892. He died in 1901. |
J. B. TAYLOR, who is one
of the rising young physicians of Broadway, Ohio, and whose enviable
reputation is recognized by the public and by his professional
brethren as well, was born in Delaware county, Ohio, in the town of
Norton, Dec. 6, 1846, and is a son of Elam and Mary Ann (Glaze)
Taylor. The maternal grandparents were natives of
Pennsylvania. The paternal grandparents, Joel and Elizabeth
(Irvin) Taylor, were natives of Connecticut, and came to Ohio
about the year 1810, locating on the farm now owned by John
Grady, near Inskip's Corners, Marlboro township, Delaware
county. Elam Taylor came into possession of that place
on his father's death, but lost it by going bail for a friend.
He was a man of considerable local influence, whose sagacity and
judgment were much respected, and for many years he held the office
of Justice of the Peace in Troy township, Delaware county. He
later resided in Norton and there held the same office. He is
well known throughout the surrounding country as a most successful
veterinary surgeon, and is a straightforward, honorable man.
His wife died in 1850.
The Taylor family was well and ably represented
during the late war, for the father and four sons donned the blue
and aided in the defense of the Union, the aggregate of their terms
of service amounting to more than twelve years. Elam Taylor
enlisted in Company D, One Hundred and Twenty-first Ohio Volunteer
Infantry, participated in the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, and
soon thereafter was honorably discharged on account of physical
disability. He was born near Norton, Delaware county, Jan. 24,
1815, and died June 6, 1884. Adam H., his eldest child,
born Dec. 4, 1837, enlisted in Apr., 1861, in Company A, Fourth Ohio
Volunteer Infantry, and was transferred to the Second United States
Cavalry, in which he served until the close of the war. He is
still living. George Albert enlisted in the same
company and regiment, and was one of the first two volunteers from
Marlboro township. He was rejected at Camp Dennison on account
of his small stature, but again enlisted, June 13, 1861, in Company
C, Twenty-sixth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, at Delaware, Ohio. At
the battle of Chickamauga he was taken prisoner, confined in Libby
prison, taken thence to Danville, and later to Andersonville prison,
Georgia, at which place he died from scurvy, in September, 1864.
He now lies in an unmarked grave, like many of the brave boys who
left pleasant homes and laid down their lives on the altar of their
country. Henry Walter Taylor enlisted in Company B,
Forty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Sept. 18, 1861, at Delaware,
Ohio; was captured at Carrion Cross bayou, Louisiana, Nov. 3, 1863,
and confined in a rebel prison at Austin, Texas, for a period of six
months. He was discharged Mar. 9, 1866, at Galveston, Texas,
and, remaining in the South, afterward married a Southern lady, by
whom he had two children. His father-in-law, a rank rebel,
killed him near Summit, Mississippi, in 1872, and he was buried at
that place. His wife and son now reside in Gloster,
Mississippi, and his daughter, Dora, was brought North by
Dr. Taylor and has married a Northern man, Mr. W. R. Willis,
of Broadway, Ohio. Mary E. Taylor, the only daughter of
Elam Taylor, was born Dec. 4, 1850.
The gentleman whose name heads this record was early
thrown upon his own resources. Upon his mother's death, which
occurred when he was scarcely four years of age, the family was
broken up, and the little boy was thus thrown upon the cold indeed
he found them. He lived with various families until his
eleventh year, and during that time manifested great aptitude for
study, easily mastering the contents of the books to which he had
access and making the facts therein gleaned his own. During
his eleventh year his father placed him with a certain family to
work for his board and clothes, with the understanding that he was
to be treated as a member of the family, and was to receive a horse,
saddle and bridle when he had attained his majority. The aged
lady, who presided over the household, however, proved to be of a
very eccentric turn of mind and he was abused, mistreated and
whipped most unmercifully and so completely was he held in
subjection that he did not dare to give a true account of the
circumstances, but when questioned concerning his treatment, would
invariably reply "I like my home." For more than four years he
endured that treatment without complaining, for he believed himself
a "bound boy" and did not dare run away. It was his earnest
desire to attend school, but he was permitted to do so only through
a very short portion of the year. H managed, however, to
secure books from the township library and other sources, and thus
succeeded in gaining knowledge which has proven of incalculable
benefit to him in later years.
When, at the outbreak of the Rebellion, his brothers
enlisted in the service, he ran away from his so-called "home," but
again he was bound out, and found that fair promises ended in
disappointment. He worked all winter, receiving no money and
little clothing, so he left and went to his father's home (the
father having been again married) and attended school until the
succeeding spring, when he engaged with J. A. Schaaf,
Commissioner of Marion county, Ohio, receiving a salary of $6. per
month. Here Mr. Taylor found friends, and although his
meager earnings went to support his father's family, yet he obtained
many advantages, chief of which was permission to attend school.
The kindness of this family toward the outcast will never be
forgotten. In the autumn of 1862 his father enlisted in the
service, and thus the support of the family devolved entirely upon
him. The Taylors suffered greatly that winter, and
often during the long cold days they had nothing to sustain life
except potatoes and black coffee. But all things must have an
end, and at last the long, weary winter of 1862-3 passed away.
The father returned home, broken down in health, and soon after the
subject of this sketch, who had frequently attempted to enlist, but
who had been rejected on account of his age and size, was accepted
as a member of Company G, Eighty-eighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry,
under Lieutenant James W. Mills, at Ashley, Ohio, and
served as a bugler during the war.
When peace was once more restored, Mr. Taylor
returned to the place of his nativity, for home he had none, and
began work upon a farm. It was his desire to enter school, but
as he had given all his earnings to his father to aid in support of
the family, he could not carry out this cherished plan. On the
21st day of November, he lost all of his few effects in a fire,
barely escaping with his life. In the winter of 1865 he
entered school, and in the summer worked upon a farm, his time being
thus passed until his twenty-third year, - the privilege of
attending school being granted him by reason of his service in the
army when a minor. At the age of twenty-three he began working
for an uncle, John Brunbridge, a wealthy farmer of Marion
county, and this proved a fortunate move on his part, for his two
cousins, "Lide" and "Joe," talented young ladies, graduates of
Granville, Ohio, Female University, took quite a deep interest in
him, placed at his disposal a good library, and aided him in his
studies in many ways.
During this period of his career Mr. Taylor
accumulated some money, and with it he later purchased a house and
lot in Norton, which he placed at the disposal of his father and his
family, and which was occupied by them for many years, without rent.
Our subject was industrious and was now meeting with
fair success, but was not content with his lot, - wishing to enter
upon a professional career. From overwork and study his health
began to fail, and he was advised by Dr. E. H. Hyatt, of
Delaware, Ohio, to study medicine, and not having the ready money to
pay for instruction, he began studying with Dr. Hyatt, paying
for the teaching by office work and such other assistance as he
could render his preceptor. Subsequently he took a course of
lectures in the Columbus Medical College, during the term of 1878-9,
and left that school with ill health and without a cent of money,
but he borrowed $12, and with indomitable energy walked to Green
Camp, Marion county, Ohio, at which place he entered the office of
Dr. Free, with the privilege of "making what he could."
He went there an entire stranger, without recommendations or
diploma, and, through his practice was not heavy, he made enough to
defray expenses and won many warm friends and established a good
reputation as an esteemed citizen and a successful practitioner.
He was there elected and served as Township Clerk.
Returning to college in the winter of 1880, he was
graduated Mar. 3, 1881, and then again went to Green Camp, but
hearing of a scarlet-fever epidemic at Broadway, Ohio, he came to
this village, where he was soon battling with the disease. At
the earnest request of many of the citizens of Broadway, he located
in the town, Mar. 14, 1881, and is still engaged in a lucrative
practice here. His reputation both as a medical practitioner
and surgeon is among the best, and he ranks deservedly high among
his professional brethren. He has successfully performed some
very difficult operations in surgery and although a Democrat, was
appointed an examining surgeon for pensions under President
Harrison's administration, and is still retained on the Board of
Pension Examiners, at Marysville, Ohio.
Dr. Taylor is now serving his second
term as Township Treasurer, and is connected with various fraternal
organizations, being identified with the Masonic order; the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and Grand Army
of the Republic. In addition to his business as a physician he
is proprietor of a drug store in Broadway, and also owns a farm near
by.
On the 23d of February, 1882, an important event
occurred in the life of Dr. Taylor, - his marriage to Miss
Emma L. Wolford, of Green Camp, Ohio, daughter of J. G.
Wolford, and their union has been blessed with three children,
namely: Arvilla Blanche, born Oct. 25, 1883, died Sept. 1,
1884; Mamie Alberto, born Aug. 18, 1885; and Hazel Lillian,
born May 29, 1888. The family is one of prominence in thsi
community, and Dr. and Mrs. Taylor occupy a very enviable
position in social circles.
The Doctor has lived an eventful life, and in the
school of experience has learned many valuable lessons. His
childhood was one of hardship and trial; his youth a period of
struggle; and his manhood a season of well-deserved prosperity.
A man of kindly and genial nature, he is generous to a fault; -
owing perhaps to the broad sympathy which was awakened by his own
early privations.
Source: Memorial Record of the Counties of Delaware, Union and
Morrow, Ohio - Publ. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Co. 1895 |
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