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A TAYLOR GENEALOGY 1963 A limited number of copies of this book are available at $10 per copy, from the Compiler Harmon R. Taylor 300 Thirty-Sixth Street N. E. Cedar Rapids, Iowa A TAYLOR GENEALOGY By Harmon R. Taylor The title of this book is by no means indicative of what it contains. A suitably descriptive title might be 'The An cestry and Relatives-by-Blood of the Children of Harmon Robert and Dorothy Whitman Bates Taylor' but any title ought to be brief as that would not be, and still it would not be adequate to describe \Vhat is offered herein. Inasmuch as every human being is the product of two in fluences - heredity and environrr1ent - of which now the one and again the other seems to be dominant, interest in one's ancestry (as distinguished from overweening pride therein) is eminently understandable and worthy. Almost equally understandable is the interest most of us have in all those who share with us even a minute segment of our own phys ical inheritance. Most of us, also, would like to know more about hov; our forebears lived, how they worked and played, and in general what influences have made us what we are. An attempthas been made to gratify, at least in some small measure, that desire. If this work has any really practical value, however, it will doubtless be in respect to its being available to settle arguments as to when Uncle Horace was born, or as to when Grandpa and Grandma were married. There probably are errors in dates and names, but amongst the rather formid able number of these appearing in this book the complete absence of errors would be nothing short of miraculous. No apologies are offered, therefore, for mistakes, even though these are sincerely regretted. As originally conceived this was to have been only an at tempt to identify as many of the Taylor children's ancestors as possible, and to accomplish this in an orderly manner it was recognized that a suitable system of index numbers would be needed. Fortunately, according to generally ac cepted authorities, every person with the possible exception of Adam and Eve, has had or has two parents; so, if we were to assign the number 1 to the Taylor children; then their parents would naturally inherit from them, their children, the numbers 2 and 3 . Acrimonious debate as to whether the father should get the even number and thus precede (i.e. take precedence) over the mother, or whether the father should outrank the mother by having a number larger than hers, was eventual ly settled by agreement that: (1) Surnames follow the male 3 Introduction line; (2) It is easier to divide an even number by 2 than it is to divide an odd number by 2 and subtract one-half (which would, of course, precipitate argument as to whether the half to be dumped is the paternal or the maternal); (3) It is a well-known fact that women are more odd than men; (4) Every woman should be considered as a whole, an entity, not divisible at all. So every male ancestor's number is even and every female ancestor is odd - as to index number, that is. It follows, then, that every individual's father has an index number double his own, and that the index number of his mother is two times his own number, plus 1 . This takes care of ancestors, but what about uncles and aunts, cousins, nieces and nephews? This question irwolves generations and it is unthinkable that one's children be re garded as the 1st generation while one is himself relegated to second generation. All too often the little monsters are much too pampered, anyway. So, while the ancestor num bers in this book increase with antiquity, the generation num bers progress with time. But where to begin? Anticipating that there would be wide gaps between, say, Noah's gener ation and that of our great-great-great-great grandparents, it was decided not to begin with Adam, or even Noah, but to assign the number 1 to the generation of the most remote known ancestor, count forward to index number 1 and then go backward from there. Thus the children who share the index number 1 became generation number 13, their par ents were in the 12th generation, their grandparents of the 11th, and so on. Only one problem remained: how to identify the differ ent persons of the same generation having at least a com mon father. That problem was solved by resorting to the alphabet; and here fortune smiled. Probably due to the fact that polygamy has been in disfavor throughout America - at least since Utah became one of the United States - it was thought to be unlikely that any male ancestor would be found to have fathered more than twenty-six known children. So the fifth-born child of a man in the 11th generation who was the third-born child of a man in the 10th generation who was the first-born of a man in the 9th generation with the index number 16 would be indexed as '16a10cllel.2'; and it would be impossible for any two persons to get the same number and letter combination. By reason of a cousin marriage away back then, however, one individual could conceivably fall heir to more than one such combination and a person 4 Introduction indexed as '16al.0clle12' might also be '46h9b10alldl2al.3', and this, mind you, in addition to his Social Security, Carte Blanche and ZIP code numbers! All this having been made clear as crystal, the reader may now attack the book itself, at his leisure, and he had better not lack for any of that if he intends to do justice to it. Any suggestions for simplifying the indexing system of this book will be given no consideration whatever. Biographical notes, anecdotes and character sketches have been welcomed and most of those offered have been in cluded, perhaps with some abbreviation; but no formula was used in their selection. Thus there is only basic data as to a great many very interesting people. The compiler has been sorely tempted to try spicing this work with recitals of a few of the more lurid accomplishments of certain indi viduals. He should be given warm congratulations for hav ing resisted such temptations to the extent he has done so. Sincere thanks are due the many relatives who have with patience and painstaking effort supplied data, anecdotes and advice, because for these the only reward will be whatever gratification they may find in having supplied what they did. The compiler also acknowledges a debt of gratitude to the authors and compilers of the many books he used as refer ences and from which quotations have been freely taken. 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Robert Harmon \:3 Taylor; b Jul 91922; mat Cedar Rapids, Iowa, May 27 1944, Mary Frances, dau (Dr.) Ario and Grace Opal (Deremiah) Zuercher. 3 c b Cedar Rapids. a. Christopher''i Taylor (dau); b Mar 11 1945. b. Deborah l'l Taylor; b Feb 13 1947. c. Susan\~ Taylor; b Feb 16 1951. b. Allen Marcus\~ Taylor; b Dec 22 19~3; ..11 Jun 23 1945 at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Jean Alice, dau Royal F and Claire (Gallagher) McGinnis (b Mar 31 1926 at Cedar Rapids) 2 c b at Milwaukee, Wisconsin a.