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

1. 2. Charlotte TAYLOR  
2. 3. James Henry TAYLOR   d. 1907, Clinton Ny.
3. 4. Robert Longley TAYLOR   d. 1923, Williamstown,Mass.
4. 5. Stephen ston TAYLOR  

1. 6. John Bromley Franklin TAYLOR   b. 26 Feb 1843, Hamilton Ny.
2. 7. Porter H. Wood TAYLOR   b. 26 Oct 1844, Norwich,Ct.

1. 8. H. HEYL  
2. 9. J. J. HEYL  
3. 10. Henry ston HEYL  

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Listed in Hamilton College and her Family Lines, are 2 James H.Taylors
as sons of Benjamin Franklin Taylor. The class lists in the Alumni
Bulliton, 1932 show these men as different people. I died in 1924.

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1242 JOHN BROMLEY FRANKLIN8 TAYLOR (Mary E.7), born Feb. 26, 1843, at
Hamilton, N. Y.; married, by Rev. Samuel J. Liggon, Rosabelle Aeolian
Davis, Oct. 16, 1869, at Lynchburg, Va. Rosabelle was a daughter of
Thomas R. Davis, an extensive planter of Appamattox Co., Va. Mr. Taylor
married (second) Mrs. Margaret (Jones) Daniell (widow of a Confederate
officer), Sept. 11, 1883, in St. Louis, Mo. Married by Rev. J. P. T.
Ingraham, brother of the author of "The Prince of the House of David."
Margaret was a daughter of Welsh parents, Thomas and Hannah Jones, and
was born March 14, 1847,in Carbondale, Pa. Mrs. Taylor died June 7,
1905, in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Taylorlearned the printer's trade; has been
a journalist and proof-reader, studiedmedicine, pharmacy and law; was in
the class of '69 of Chicago University, butdid not graduate because of
ill health, caused by the hardships of army life.Was in the Civil War
from the fall of Fort Sumter.

Child (Taylor), by first marriage:
2229 Benjamin Franklin9, born May 6, 1871, in Richmond, Va.;
died Jan. 30, 1893, in Chicago, Ill.



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1242 JOHN BROMLEY FRANKLIN8 TAYLOR (Mary E.7), born Feb. 26, 1843, at
Hamilton, N. Y.; married, by Rev. Samuel J. Liggon, Rosabelle Aeolian
Davis, Oct. 16, 1869, at Lynchburg, Va. Rosabelle was a daughter of
Thomas R. Davis, an extensive planter of Appamattox Co., Va. Mr. Taylor
married (second)Mrs. Margaret (Jones) Daniell (widow of a Confederate
officer), Sept. 11, 1883, in St. Louis, Mo. Married by Rev. J. P. T.
Ingraham, brother of the author of "The Prince of the House of David."
Margaret was a daughter of Welsh parents, Thomas and Hannah Jones, and
was born March 14, 1847, in Carbondale, Pa. Mrs. Taylor died June 7,
1905, in Baltimore, Md. Mr. Taylor learned the printer'strade; has been
a journalist and proof-reader, studied medicine, pharmacy andlaw; was in
the class of '69 of Chicago University, but did not graduate because of
ill health, caused by the hardships of army life. Was in the Civil War
from the fall of Fort Sumter.

Child (Taylor), by first marriage:
2229 Benjamin Franklin9, born May 6, 1871, in Richmond, Va.;
died Jan. 30, 1893, in Chicago, Ill.

1. 11. Benjamin Franklin TAYLOR   b. 6 May 1871, Richmond,Virginia; d. 30 Jan 1893, Chicago,Illinois.

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1243 DOCTOR PORTER H. WOOD8 TAYLOR (Mary E.7), born Oct. 26, 1844, in
Norwich, Conn.; married (???); wife's name unknown. P. H. W. Taylor is a
practicing physician in Cleveland, O.

Children (Taylor):
2230 George9.
2231 Francis.


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1243 DOCTOR PORTER H. WOOD8 TAYLOR (Mary E.7), born Oct. 26, 1844, in
Norwich, Conn.; married (???); wife's name unknown. P. H. W. Taylor isa
practicing physician in Cleveland, O.

Children (Taylor):
2230 George9.
2231 Francis.

1. 12. George TAYLOR  
2. 13. Francis TAYLOR