Biographical Sketch (1893):1316, p. 292. "William Henry Harrison Taylor, son of Matthew and Nancy Jane (Hutchinson) Taylor, was born in 1830 in South Strabane township, Washington Co., Penn., educated at the schools of his district, attending also Washington and Jefferson College, several years, and on the old homestead was reared to the multiform duties of farm life. In 1850 he married Miss Jane E., daughter of Charles E. Jones, who was born in 1799 in England, where he followed the carpenter's trade, and where he married Susan Judson. In 1827 they came to America, settling in Washington, Penn., where he continued his trade in connection with contracting for house building. Mr. and Mrs. Jones had the following children: Mary, Sarah, two that died in infancy, Jane E., William, Susan, Sylvester F., James J. and George O. The mother died in 1871, aged seventy-one years, the father January 11, 1883.
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To Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were born six children, of whom the following is a succinct record: Edward M., pastor of the Tremont M.E. Church at Boston, Mass. (in 1872 he graduated from Washington and Jefferson College, and afterward with first honors at Boston School of Divinity; was on the circuit for a time, prior to locating in Massachusetts; married Miss Mary Bradford, a descendant of a "May Flower" family); James Franklin, the subject proper of this sketch; Emma, wife of John A. Hall, assistant postmaster at Washington, Penn.; Alice who died at the age of eleven years; William Nelson, senior member of the firm of Taylor & Speer, in the iron commission business at Pittsburgh, and who married a daughter of Stephen Crump; Susan Jane, wife of Dr. Maurer, of Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor remained on the farm until 1866, when they moved with their family into Washington, for the purpose of educating their children, where he opened a general fresh and salt meat business, including pork packing and stock buying, and formed a partnership with Robert Charlton, which continued till the latter's death, after which Mr. Taylor carried on the business alone till the time of his decease, February 9, 1884, he being then fifty-four years old. He is buried in Washington cemetery. A stanch Republican and a loyal American, he took a strong interest in all national matters, political or otherwise, but was no office seeker. During the war of the Rebellion he was a fearless, out-spoken Union man, frequently even to the extent of exciting the ire of some less loyal acquaintance. He was a consistent member of the M.E. Church, and one of the leaders in the congregation in building the new First M.E. church, at Washington, of which he was a trustee. He was a pronounced advocate of education, and gave his children every advantage possible in that line, sending his sons to college and his daughters to seminaries, and held the office of school director at different times. He was, physically, a strong, vigorous man, but succumbed to diabetes, from which he was a sufferer for several years. Honest in his dealings, a despiser of shams of all kinds, and a hater of deceit and mendacity, he made and kept hosts of warm friends, who respected and honored him for his many virtues. Since his departure, his widow, still hale and hearty, has continued to reside at the old town house on West Wheeling street."