ELI JOHN P. TAYLOR.     The subject of this sketch who is of English and Scotch-Irish ancestry, and who is an old and respected citizen of Clay township, Knox county, Ohio, was born in Delaware July 20, 1832.  Abraham Taylor, his father, was a native of Pennsylvania and his ancestors came over to America with William Penn.  Mary Murtick, who married Abraham Taylor and was Eli John P. Taylor's mother, was born of Scotch-Irish parentage at Wilmington, Deleware Delaware.  She was early orphaned and was reared and educated by a Mr. Franklin, of Wilmington.  Abraham and Mary (Murtick) Taylor came to Coshocton county, Ohio, in 1837, and to Knox county about 1843, locating in Jackson township.  They were the parents of five sons and two daughters, of whom two sons and the daughters are living at this time.  Eli John P. Taylor, who is their youngest son, was five years old when his parents removed from Delaware to Coshocton county, Ohio, and eleven years old when they settled in Jackson township, Knox county.  His father died in his seventy fifth year, his mother in her ninety-second year.
     Mr. Taylor was reared in Jackson town ship and educated in the public schools near his home.  He was married June 2, 1864, to Miss Louisa Fry, who was born in Coshocton county, Ohio, Sept. 9, 1844, a daughter of William and Elizabeth (Huffman) Fry.  Her parents, who were natives of Pennsylvania, were early settlers in Ohio.  After their marriage Mr. and Mrs. Taylor lived in Jackson township until 1881, when they located on their present farm in Clay township, which consists of one hundred and ninety-two acres, well equipped in every way and devoted to general farming.  Mr. Taylor, who is a Democrat, has held several local offices and has been prominent as a member of the township board of education.  His religious belief led him to form a membership with the Presbyterian church, in which he is an elder and in the work of which he has been active and efficient.
     Eli John P. and Elizabeth (Fry) Taylor are the parents of six children, who are here named in the order of their nativity: Laura V., who married Alonzo Blue, and resides near Mount Vernon; Benjamin F., who married Miss Zora Scott, of Jackson township; Mary E., who married Charles Blackburn, residing in Clay township; William H., who married Felicia Scott, of Perry township, Coshocton county; and Abraham Leroy and Allen, who are assisting in the operation of the home farm.  William H. Taylor now owns the John Trimble farm in Coshocton county, which was secured under the administration of James Madison.
Source: The Biographical Record of Knox County, Ohio - Publ. 1902 - Page 47

GEORGE H. TAYLOR.     George H. Taylor, superintendent of the Mount Vernon Gas Light & Coke Company, has held the important position which he now so ably fills for twenty-three years, and his entire life has been spent in this city.  His paternal grandfather, George Taylor, was born in England and was there engaged as a contractor for gas works.  In 1849 he came from his native land to the United States, locating first in Portsmouth, Ohio, and in that city, Dayton, Sandusky and New York he was employed in the erection of gas works.  In company with a Mr. Barringer he received the contract to erect the Mount Vernon gas works, and in 1856 he removed to this city, where he remained for several years, and on East Front street he erected the fine homestead which his grandson now occupies.  In 1867 he returned to his native land on a visit, and in Manchester, that country, his life's labors were ended in death at the age of fifty-nine years.  His wife bore the maiden name of Olive Neild, and her death occurred in Mount Vernon in 1862.  Their son, Hugh Neild Taylor, was born in Manchester, England, in 1833, and when eighteen years of age he accompanied his parents on their removal to this country.  For twenty years he served as superintendent of the Mount Vernon Gas Light & Coke Company, holding that position until the time of his death, which occurred on the 2d of March, 1880, at the age of forty-nine years.  He was united in marriage to Emma Price, a native of Bingham, England.  She accompanied her parents on their removal to this country, locating in Brooklyn, New York.  They became the parents of two sons, and the younger, Harry P., is now a resident of Akron, Ohio.
     George H. Taylor, the elder son and the immediate subject of this review, was born in the city of Mount Vernon, and the educational advantages which he enjoyed in his youth were those afforded by the public schools of the city.  In 1880, when twenty years of age, he succeeded his father as superintendent of the Mount Vernon Gas Light & Coke Company, and for the past twenty-three yeas he has filled this important position with credit to himself and to the entire satisfaction of all concerned.  His entire life having been passed in Knox county, he is widely known in the community, and the fact that many of his friends are numbered among those who have been acquainted with him from boyhood is an indication that his career has ever been an honorable and upright one.
Source: The Biographical Record of Knox County, Ohio - Publ. 1902 - Page 87

Source: The Biographical Record of Knox County, Ohio - Publ. 1902 - Page 296

JOHN JAMES TULLOSS.      The man whose name is mentioned above has been identified with Morgan township, Knox county, Ohio, for eighty-two years, and during that long period has been not only a living witness of the development of its history and prosperity, but a vital factor in its progress.  John James Tulloss, son of John James and Elizabeth (Honey) Tulloss, was born in Morgan township Sept. 11, 1820, was educated in its old subscription schools and has been an independent farmer since he attained the age of twenty-one years except during four years, and has passed his entire life in the township, having his home always on the same piece of ground.  In religious affiliation he is a Primitive Baptist.  Politically he has been a Democrat during all the years of his manhood, and he has always been influential in local affairs and for six years held the office of township trustee.
     Oct. 24, 1844, Mr. Tulloss married Caroline Campnett Smith, daughter of James Harrington and Martha (Davis) Smith, who was born in the township Apr. 8, 1826, and who has borne him children as follows: Emily, who died at the age of sixteen years.  Byron Leonard, a druggist at Columbus, Ohio.  He married Josephine Van Buskirk and had four children, three of whom died in infancy and one of whom, Clyde E., survives.  His second wife was Sarah E. Dennis, who left one child living, Josephine R.; and for his third wife he married Mrs. Maggie Carpenter.  The next in order of birth of John J. Tulloss' children was named John James, who died at thirty one.  Reese P., who died at thirty-four of an accident, a ball from a rifle which he picked up carelessly by the muzzle and which was discharged by the hammer coming in contact with a nail, penetrating his heart.  Almina Weaver became his wife and bore him three children, named Reese Edgar, De Sylvia and Freddie Wayne.  Benjamin Franklin went to Texas and was last heard from twenty years ago through a letter which he wrote announcing his intention of going up in the mountains with a large herd of cattle.  George Washington married Rilla Boner, and lives in Wayne township, Knox county.  He is a minister of the Primitive Baptist church.  Cynthia Almeda and Caroline Campnett are members of their father's household.
     Captain John James Tulloss, Sr., was born in Fauquier county, Virginia, Sept., 1784, and was married in March, 1815, to Elizabeth Honey, also a native of Virginia, born about 1778.  They had children as follows: Ann, who married Benjamin Seymour and lives in Kansas; Elizabeth, who married Charles Stevens and lives in Miller township, Knox county, Ohio; William, who married Cynthia Smith and after her death Felicia Scott, of Mount Vernon; Richard S., who was born in 1819, was for twenty years a justice of the peace in Morgan township, where he was a lifelong resident, was a member of the Ohio state constitutional convention in 1870, and at his death, in 1892, left a farm of six hundred acres; he never married; John James, who was next in order of birth; Benjamin, who married Margaret Campbell, and is living in retirement at Mount Vernon; and Susan, who died Mar. 28, 1899; and Rodham, who married Betsy Harris; she died in 1873, he passing away two years later.  The father of these children came to Licking county, Ohio, in 1807, and returned to Virginia in 1814, and was there married in 1815.  He was the captain of a Knox county company in the war of 1812.  He bought five hundred acres of military land in Knox county and improved it into valuable property, which has since been divided into smaller tracts, and is still held by the Tulloss family.  While a resident of Licking county he made the first brick ever manufactured in Newark.  After his location in Knox county he was a farmer until his death, which occurred when he was fifty seven years old.
     AZARIAH DAVIS, the grandfather of Mrs. Tulloss, was born in Greene county, Pennsylvania, of Welsh descent, and was a soldier in the Revolutionary war.  He married Elsie Van Meter, a daughter of Henry Van Meter and a native of Virginia, who had come on horseback to Greene county, Pennsylvania, and in 1799 they went to Loudoun county, Virginia.  James Harrington Smith, the father of Mrs. Tulloss, was born near Hagerstown, Maryland.  When quite young he was taken to Pennsylvania, where he subsequently married.  He settled in Ohio in 1811 and sensed his country in the war of 1812.  He was the father of children named Azariah, Benjamin, Mary (1st), John, Mary (2d), Sarah, Rebecca, James, Henry, Rachel, Caroline and Reese.  Of this family of children Mrs. Tulloss is the only one living.  Azariah was a citizen of Knox county.  Benjamin lived in Morgan township eighty-nine years.  Their daughter lives on their old home farm on the Newark road in that township.  Mary married Reese McClellon and she and her husband both are now dead.  John died of yellow fever at New Orleans, Louisiana.  Sarah married Wesley McCune and had seven children, named Harrington, Charles, Henry, Margaret, Etwinna, Alexander and Charles, all now being deceased.  Rebecca married Henry Crumley and they had children named Oscar, Sarah, Margaret and Sarah Adeline.  James married Harriet Todd and she lives in Putnam county, Ohio.  Their children were named Lafayette, Louisa, Julia, Kossuth, Jefferson and Ammie Caroline.   Henry married Sarah McVey for his first wife and his second wife was Hannah Harris, who also has passed away.  Martha, his daughter, lives in Licking county, Ohio.  His children by his second marriage were Elzie, Emma, Frank, Carrie, George, Reese and Mammie.  The latter married Newton McVey and lives in Carthage, Missouri.  Caroline married John James Tulloss.  Reese, who married Alice Fly, was killed by Indians in Arizona.  Their children were named Cornelius, Reese and Cornelia.  Benjamin Tulloss, a brother of our subject, was born Dec. 25, 1768, and became one of the pioneers in Ohio some time after his brother.  He married Mary Marshall and died in February, 1847, and his wife Feb. 14, 1846.
Source: The Biographical Record of Knox County, Ohio - Publ. 1902 - Page 165