Biography

1789 - 10/05/1846

TAYLOR, John, a Representative from Armstrong, Indiana and Jefferson Counties; born, 1789 in Pennsylvania; clerk of commissioners, Indiana County (1815-1816); deputy surveyor, Indiana County (1815, 1825-1827); elected, treasurer, Indiana County (1817-1818); elected, prothonotary, Indiana County (1818-1821); elected burgess, Indiana (1819-1820); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1821-1822, 1822-1823 and 1823-1824 terms; elected, associate judge, Indiana County (1828); editor and publisher, Indiana Free Press (1830-1833); elected, surveyor general of Pennsylvania (1836-1839); died, October 5, 1846 in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania; interred, Greenwood Cemetery, White Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania.