Taylor Album photos

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TAYLOR ALBUM PHOTOS - need help identifying!
Copies from albums in Connecticut--thanks, Jim and Laura
Please send additions and corrections to retro_illini (at sign) verizon (dot) net

(undergoing-re-organization -- photos and suggestions welcome)

FIRST GENERATION TAYLORS
Neill, Alexander, Archibald, Flora, Duncan Alexander, John, Robert C, Wm McDonald
born in Scotland
children of Robert & Mary Miza McCoig Taylor

476 - ARCHIBALD TAYLOR 1806 -1896 "Uncle Archie" (per MK) [brother of Robert C Taylor p 23, Taylor Genealogy] (photo: Mann studio Virginia ILL)	476 - ROBERT C TAYLOR 1816-1902 "Uncle Archie" (per MK) brother of Robert C Taylor p 23, Taylor Genealogy (Source: Taylor Trunk, Ashland IL)	ROBERT C TAYLOR 27 Nov 1816-25 Dec 1902 hair part wrong side per RC Dutch; otherwise features match - RC Dutch note 3/2009 (Portrait source: G Hitchcock)
WILLIAM McDONALD TAYLOR 1819-1900 [ brother of Robert C Taylor] (Source of drawing: Taylor Trunk, G Hitchcock)	464 - WILLIAM McDONALD TAYLOR 10 Feb 1819 - 12 Feb 1900 (Karr listing) F John Taylor's grandfather! (F John - son of John Horrom Taylor & Edna Elliott) (Mann photo, Virginia IL)

MEN - Next Generations

481 Could be same - RC Dutch note 2/2009 (Photo: Shoemaker Studio, Beardstown IL)	(Mann studio photo, Virginia IL)
459 ANGUS TAYLOR 1872-1955 [F. John Taylor's Uncle, son of William McDonald Taylor & Mary Ellen Horrom] p 86, Taylor Genealogy (photo: Kerr's Studio, Lincoln IL)
515 BERT TAYLOR (Robert C) 1868 -1936 son of Robt C & Janet Taylor (p 78, Taylor Genealogy) (same as 451?) (photo taken ~1890, Knox College, IL)	451 Could be Bert or Duncan Taylor per RC Dutch note 2/2009 (photo K McKinnon, Jacksonville Ill)
JOHN WILLIAM "Jake" TAYLOR 1848-1932 son of Robt C & Janet Taylor (p 39, Taylor Genealogy) (Mann photo, Virginia ILL)	#482 - Jake Taylor (More likely Jake Taylor per RC Dutch 3/2009 note; and outside chance 484 is Duncan)	483 - Jake Taylor? probably not Duncan A Taylor per RC Dutch note 2/2009
#472 (with album page 473) (Photo: Mann studio, Virginia IL)		Another Jake?
#480 ANDREW SCHAAD (b. 1836, Hesse-Darmstadt) - d. Mar 7, 1912) married Miza Taylor, dau Neill Taylor (Photo: "Cabinet Portrait, WL Schaeffer, photographer, Chandlerville IL)

WOMEN - early generations

#441 MARY PALLETT TAYLOR? 1854-1944 would time period--pre 1900 fit her age? (Photo: Ma... studio, Illinois--Mann?)	#442 (not same as 446 per F John)	#446 LUELLA (Lou) TAYLOR SCHAAD 29 Apr 1870 - 26 Jan 1965 [F John Taylor's Aunt, Daughter of Wm McDonald & Mary Ellen Horrom Taylor] m. Thomas F. Schaad Mar 22, 1905 (paired in album with boy on fur, son?--444 below) (Mann studio photo, Virginia ILL)
#475 (same as 473?) JANET CUNNINGHAM TAYLOR 1824-1910 [wife of Robert C Taylor] (id per R Dutch photo study) (Photo: by Mann studio, Virginia ILL)	"woman in black" Janet Taylor? Photo: Virginia IL	#473 Janet Cunningham Taylor? Prob not Janet Cunningham Taylor, but possibly Mary Pallett Taylor. 1918 reunion picture has many of her same features. per RC Dutch note 3/2009 (redonephoto, somewhat stretched, distorted--jth) (photo: Mann studio, Virginia IL) same page with 472

FAMILIES, COUPLES, GROUPS


(photo by Mann studio, VIrginia ILL)	(could these be #442/6 or 448?) Luella? Possibly Margaret Reid Taylor (1854-1933) and Archibald (1810-1836) (attended 1901 reunion)--per RC Dutch note 3/2009 Archibald "Arch" R Taylor, son of Robt C and Janet Cunningham Taylor (W L Schaeffer studio, Chanderville IL)
#466 - brothers (photo: R H Mann, Virginia Ills.)	#462 Possibly John William Taylor w Margaret/Maggie Taylor (L) and Flora Taylor (R). Children of Robt C Taylor and Janet Cunningham - RC Dutch note 2/2009 jth: Angus?	#1695 Signed on back, "Miss Ellen Taylor with love" [Ellen Taylor, 1844-1903, sister of Jake, dau Robt C & Janet Taylor] (Photo: Demorest, Garfield WA-- probably T J Demorest)
same studio as #447	Brothers - same studio with pillar as #447 same family as 447?	#447 Archibald? Ellen? (photo: Beardstown)

Comparisons

PHOTO ALBUM PAIRINGS (might be helpful?)

478 - Left - ?; Right - John William ("Jake") Taylor (1848-1932), son of Robert and Janet (Cunningham) Taylor Left. Possibly Duncan A Taylor (bro of Jake) per RCDutch note 2/2009	Shaad?


	Both photographed by Schaeffer, Chandlerville, as was Andrew Schaad

CHILDREN

#549 - "Jeanette and Frances Taylor" JENNETTE TAYLOR (Hemphill) 1890 - 1964 FLORA 1888 - 1924 [daughters of John W "Jake" Taylor & Mary L Pallett] Handwritten on back: "Flora and Jennette (added later: 9 mos.), with best wishes to Uncle Archie" (Mann photo, Virginia IL, 1890)	FLORA & JENNETTE TAYLOR Handwritten on back: "Flora's age 3 years and 8 mo Jennette's age 20 mo"	JENNETTE TAYLOR (Leisring photo, East Side Square, Jacksonville IL, 1891)
516 MARY KNIGHT "Suds" SUDBRINK 1899 - 1975 "Aunt Mary Sudbrink" per SK p. 77, Taylor Genealogy (photo - Mann Studio, Virginia)	527 MIZA JOSEPHINE SUDBRINK JOKOSCH Jul 21, 1888 - Aug 14, 1948 (dau of Wm T & Jennie Taylor Sudbrink p 67-70, Taylor Genealogy (id per SK)	#1698 Sudbrinks? -- "Suds" on right?
#526 BUELAH PALLETT? (photo: Winnepeg, Manitoba)	EUGENE (1889-1954) & BEULAH PALLETT (1880-1968) children of Wm Baird Pallet and Ella Jackson (cousins of Mary Pallett, "Jake" Taylor's wife) (photo: Book's Studio, Winfield, Kansas)	EUGENE PALLETT back enscribed: "Eugene W Pallett nine months and 22 days" (Photo: George H Dresser, Winfield, Kansas)
#444 - paired in album with 446 top row (Photo: Shoemaker, Beardstown IL) like man w patterned tie	#1698	Photo: McCullough, Beardstown

Note: Photographer Robert H Mann (born 1859, died in 1944). He came to Virginia when he was 20, purchased a photography studio, and was in business for 55 years. He was listed as a photographer on Front St in 1896. Per Selected Wrights 1936-1988, Mann had hotel in Virgina, IL in 1896. Hotel was still called The Mann (Hotel) in 1931. Mann was mayor 1899-1900. Known as "Col. Mann & wife Miss Myrtle".