Biography

03/07/1823 - 01/09/1892


TAYLOR, James M., a Representative from Allegheny County; born, March 7, 1823 in Roxbury, Franklin County, Pa; house and sign painter; grainer; engaged, oil business; elected, council, Pittsburgh; elected, school director, Pittsburgh; elected, central board of education, Pittsburgh; alderman, 9th Ward, Pittsburgh; assistant postmaster, United States Postal Service, Washington, Pa.; elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1878; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1880); died, January 9, 1892 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.


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