- NELSON TAYLOR, dealer in leaf tobacco, and cigar manufacturer,
Edgerton; born in Owego,
- Tioga Co., N.Y., May 6, 1837; son of Robert E. and Priscilla
NELSON; they came to Wisconsin in 1846 and settled in Fulton
Township, Sec. 27. Mr. Robert grew his first crop of tobacco
twenty-four years ago; he died April 3, 1866, aged 58 years and
6 months; his wife died Dec. 2, 1876, aged 62 years, 1 month
and 6 days, and was buried in Fulton in the family burying-ground.
Nelson TAYLOR married, May 22, 1861, Lydia H. KIDDER, daughter
of Joseph P. KIDDER; have one child - Arthur Nelson, born Dec.
12, 1867. Member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 69; was Town Treasurer
from 1873 to 1874, and again from 1875 to 1876; is in the manufacture
of cigars; firm is known as ROWE & TAYLOR; three years ago,
started in the leaf tobacco business, and cultivates thirty acres
under the same weed.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, pp. 849-850.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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