Family and Occupation
John W. Taylor was born in Provo, Utah Territory while his parents John Taylor and Sophia Whittaker were taking shelter there, along with other church members, during the Utah War. He married May Leona Rich (daughter of John Taylor Rich & Agnes Young) on 19 October 1882 and moved to Cassia County in Idaho, to ranch. As a practitioner of plural marriage, he later married Nellie Todd, Janet Maria Wolley, Eliza Roxie Welling, Rhoda Welling and Ellen Georgina Sandberg. He also worked as a county clerk, and a newspaper editor, among many other things.
His son Samuel W. Taylor became his biographer, and a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction.
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