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• Birth	19 Oct 1822  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	2 Jul 1848	Chicago,Illinois   [2]
  Person ID	I90371	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	19 Jun 2004 00:00:00
  Family	Benjamin Franklin TAYLOR, b. 18 Jul 1819, Lowville,Lewis Cty,Ny
  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 463 MARY ELIZABETH7 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 Page 132 of Madison University, and Eunice Scranton, and was born July 19, 1819, in Lowville, N. Y. Shedied 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 himwithout removing his hat, and all the students when passing his residence, whether in storm or sunshine, kept their heads uncovered until the grounds werecleared. He governed his children and the pupils under his care by a word or alook, not by the rod. Scranton, Pa., was founded by one of Mrs. Taylor's family. Taylor is a suburb of that town, and Bromley avenue is one of the city's thoroughfares. "Had Benj. F. Taylor been willing to put the requisite laboron his productions--which breathe the soul of poetry, combining brilliant imagery with wonderful conceits--his name would rank high among the poets of theage. My acquaintance with Taylor began before he was 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 higher value 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 of the cholera seasons as a bed-room for the two. Taylor was very much afraid of the epidemic, and frequently ran up to the doctor's office during the day to consult him upon some imaginarysymptom 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 toassociate 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 messengerswere frantic, but B. T. smilingly requested the boys to be seated, and in a few minutes he handed one of them a stanza with an order 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 paper with a single verse, and thushe 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 theprize fowl of the banquet table, winding up with the remark that it owed itsreputation 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 asto 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 uponthe 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. O. Gale.) Children (Taylor): 1242 * John Bromley Franklin8, born Feb. 26, 1843, in Hamilton, N. Y. 1243 * Porter H. Wood, born Oct.26, 1844, in Norwich, Conn. [scrnt.ftw] The Bromley Genealogy 463MARY ELIZABETH7 BROMLEY (Isaac6), born Oct. 19, 1

• 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.