James Young Taylor Diaries, 1893-1894

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James Young Taylor Diaries, 1893-1894

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Personal diaries of James Young Taylor, written during his time as a traveling salesman. The diaries concern the day-to-day activities of the cities Taylor was visiting.

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Taylor, John Young

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John Taylor resided in Oswego, NY. In 1892, he was a traveling saleman for the first newspaper syndicate established in the United States by Irving Bacheller. Taylor's business card names the firm as Bachellor & Johnson Syndicate, the Pictorial League, headquartered at the Tribune Building in New York. The firm is also known as the New York Press Syndicate. Taylor sold pre-drawn advertising cuts to merchants throughout America from as far south as Havana, Cuba to as far north as the province...

Taylor, James Young

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John Young Taylor (1854-1939) was born in Canada to George Taylor and Lady Margaret Graham in 1854. He married Annie May Bingham with whom he had six children: George Dudley (1879-1938), Grace Lucille (1894-1967), John Young, Jr. (1883-1938), Anna May (1885-1960), Clara Dudley (b. 1887), and Jane Gertrude (1888-1960). They moved to Oswego, New York in approximately 1887, before the birth of their last child in 1888. Taylor worked as a salesman for the Pictori...