Representative Hamilton B. Taylor View All Years
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Hamilton B. Taylor
Clayton County
Born January 5, 1832, is a graduate of the Albany (N. Y.) State Normal School. He taught school in New York State and Indianapolis, Ind., but subsequently went to Minnesota, where he introduced into the schools of that state a new system of books for a New York house. He became proprietor of a town in that state, but later came to Iowa and resided upon a farm in Fayette County for some time. Afterward he engaged in the agricultural implement business in Strawberry Point. In 1869 and 1870 he was a member of the State Legislature and was always prominent in public affairs. In the Congregational Church he served as Deacon and was also greatly interested in Sunday-school work. In 1866 he married Miss Marian Babcock, a native of Vermont and daughter of a wealthy farmer of Fayette County.
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