Introduction

Biography

Taylor was the son of Vir­gil Tay­lor and Elec­ta Gil­bert, and hus­band of Har­ri­et Cor­ne­lia Dun­lap (mar­ried 1848)

He lived for a while in Hart­ford, Con­nec­ti­cut, then moved to Pough­keep­sie, New York, where he played the or­gan at the Cen­tral Bap­tist Church and the First Dutch Re­formed Church.

He then took a po­si­tion as or­gan­ist at a Bap­tist church in Brook­lyn, New York. He lat­er moved to Ni­aga­ra Falls, New York, and fi­nal­ly Des Moines, Io­wa.

Works

• Sacred Min­strel or Am­er­ican Church Mu­sic Book (New York: 1846)
• Choral An­thems (Bos­ton, Mas­sa­chu­setts: 1850)
• The En­chant­er (New York: Ab­bey & Ab­bott, 1861)