1819 - 1887

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• Birth	18 Jul 1819	Lowville,Lewis Cty,Ny   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Died	24 Feb 1887	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio   [2]
  Person ID	I90372	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Stephen William TAYLOR, b. 23 Oct 1791, Adams Ma
  Mother	Eunice SCRANTON, b. 10 Sep 1791, Ludlow Ma
  Family ID	F39435	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Lucy E. LEAMING
  Married	6 Jul 1852
  Children	> 1. Charlotte TAYLOR   2. James Henry TAYLOR   3. Robert Longley TAYLOR   4. Stephen ston TAYLOR
  Family ID	F39409	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Mary Elizabeth BROMLEY, b. 19 Oct 1822
  Married	9 Jan 1839	Brooklyn,Michigan   [2]
  Children	> 1. John Bromley Franklin TAYLOR, b. 26 Feb 1843, Hamilton Ny > 2. Porter H. Wood TAYLOR, b. 26 Oct 1844, Norwich,Ct
  Family ID	F39437	Group Sheet

• Notes

  The Bromley Genealogy Author: Viola A. Bromley Call Number: R929.2 B868 This book contains a record of the descendants of Luke Bromley of Warwick,R.I., and Stonington, Conn. Bibliographic Information: Bromley, Viola A. The Bromley Genealogy. Frederick H. Hitchcock. New York. 1911. 463 MARYELIZABETH7 BROMLEY (Isaac6), born Oct. 19, 1822; married Benjamin Franklin Taylor, Sept. 2, 1839, in Brooklyn, Mich. Benjamin was a son of Stephen W. Taylor, President of Madison University, and Eunice Scranton, and was born July 19,1819, in Lowville, N. Y. She died July 2, 1848, in Chicago, Ill. He died Feb. 24, 1887, in Cleveland, O. Mr. Taylor was an author and writer of considerable note. It is said that President Taylor's presence inspired a feeling of awe, for no one approached him without removing his hat, and all the students when passing his residence, whether in storm or sunshine, kept their heads uncovered until the grounds were cleared. He governed his children and the pupilsunder his care by a word or a look, not by the rod. Scranton, Pa., was founded by one of Mrs. Taylor's family. Taylor is a suburb of that town, and Bromleyavenue is one of the city's thoroughfares. "Had Benj. F. Taylor been willing to put the requisite labor on his productions--which breathe the soul of poetry, combining brilliant imagery with wonderful conceits--his name would rankhigh among the poets of the age. My acquaintance with Taylor began before hewas associated with the Journal, when he was teaching school, on La Salle street. I assisted the boys in stage work for an exhibition that was held in the saloon building at the close of school; upon which service he placed a highervalue than he should have done. He and Dr. J. H. Bird were intimate; the office of the doctor, over J. H. Reed & Co.'s drug store, being used during one ofthe cholera seasons as a bed-room for the two. Taylor was very much afraid ofthe epidemic, and frequently ran up to the doctor's office during the day to consult him upon some imaginary symptom of the disease, which one of Bird's harmless charcoal and sulphur pills, aided by faith in the doctor and the vivid imagination of the poet, invariably relieved. He had many of the characteristics which we are accustomed to associate with genius, being improvident, procrastinating, and a brilliant conversationalist. As an instance of his procrastination, Shurman once told me that he promised the carriers of three papers a New Year's address, and on the evening of the last day in the year, he had not written a line. The messengers were frantic, but B. T. smilingly requested theboys to be seated, and in a few minutes he handed one of them a stanza with anorder to hurry back and he would have another ready for him. Then beginning another poem for his nervous news-slinger, he soon had him rushing to his paperwith a single verse, and thus he wrote alternately parts of two different poems in his best vein, winding up with a third for the Journal. He lived a number of years at Winfield, on the Galena division of the Northwestern, and we frequently sat together on the cars. Once upon my struggling in with a large turkey, he commenced decrying the prize fowl of the banquet table, winding up withthe remark that it owed its reputation exclusively to the herbs and care taken in its preparation, that without those concomitants it would be no better than crow. His laugh rang through the car when I replied, I never thought he had gone so far into politics as to be obliged to ascertain the flavor of crow. "It was a remark of his that he could always determine a man's financial standing by the train he took. If his income depended on his own exertions he took the eight o'clock; if upon the labor of others, the ten thirty; if independent of both, the afternoon train; while if quite wealthy, he waited till the next day." (Reminiscences of Early Chicago, by E

• Sources

  [S1335] GEDCOM File : scranton-shaw.ged, Kathleen Shaw Decker (Kdecker973@aol.com), (http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GED&db=scranton-shaw&id=I46), 4 Feb 2004. [S1605] The Bromley Genealogy, Viola Bromley.