Katherine Taylor spent at least part of her childhood in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, the fourth of five children born into a military family. She majored in English at the Univesity of Wisconsin, Madison, where she met and married law student John Fox Taylor. She taught school in Stoughton, Wisconsin, during her husband's final year of law school. The Taylors lived for three years in Portage, Wisconsin, where Katherine joined the Republican Women's Club and the "Joe Must Go Club," which opposed Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Taylors and their young daughter Virginia moved to Roseville Minnesota, around 1955.
Taylor served as chairwoman of the Minnesota District 4 Goldwater presidential campaign (1964), and ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the Roseville Village Council in 1966 and in 1968. She subsequently became involved in abortion reform, and served as president of the Minnesota Council for the Legal Termination of Pregnancy. Her other civic involvements included service on the Roseville Planning Commission.
From the guide to the Katherine Wood Taylor papers., 1961-1984., (Minnesota Historical Society)
