Taylor, William J. (William Johnson), 1861-1936

William Johnson Taylor was born in Worcester County, Md., on 13 Oct. 1861. He received an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1882. He died on 22 Jan. 1936. After his residency at Pennsylvania Hospital, he established a private practice in Philadelphia. William W. Keen hired Taylor as his assistant at the Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. Later, Taylor became Attending Surgeon at the hospital.

Taylor became a Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1889 and served as a censor, a member of Council, and chairman of the Library Committee. During World War I, Taylor went overseas with a Pennsylvania Hopital Unit stationed in France. Upon his return, he was elected president of the College of Physicians and served from 1919 to 1922.