Taylor, Joseph E. (Joseph Edward), 1830-1913

Joseph Edward Taylor (b. 1831), when Taylor was twenty-two, married seventeen year old Louisa Rebecca Capener. Their first son, Joseph William, was born in 1855, and they had a child roughly every two years after that: Louisa Maria, 1857; Elinor Grove, 1861; Sarah Isabell, 1863; Alvin Verender, 1965; Elizabeth Margaret, 1867; Josephine Lowella, 1869; Jennie Eliza, 1871; and Fannie Augusta, 1847. In 1875, Joseph Taylor married his wife's younger sister, Jane Maria Capener, and then in 1876 he married Lisadore Williams. Apparently he had several children with his second and third wives.

From the guide to the Joseph Edward Taylor papers, 1849-1877, (J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)