Posted on: Clark Co. Wi Biographies Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Wi/ClarkBios/10758 Surname: Taylor, Chase ------------------------- 1891 Biographical History of Clark & Jackson Counties WI H. E. Taylor, jeweler, Neillsville, Wisconsin, took up his abode in Clark County in 1868. He established his business here at that time, has since been identified with the best interests of Neillsville and is today one of its prominent citizens. Mr. Taylor was born in Tioga County, New York, and is the seventh of eight children born to Perkin Taylor. He received his education in his native county, and remained with his parents till he was twenty-one years old. He learned the carpenter’s trade there and was working at it when the war broke out. He at once joined the ranks of the Union Army, enlisting in 1861, in Company H, Sixty-fourth New York Regiment, Captain Barstow, and as a musician, was in active service with the Army of the Potomac for six months. In 1862, on account of disability, he was discharged, after which he returned to New York and was an invalid for a long time. He learned the jeweler’s trade in Minnesota, to which place he emigrated in 1865, and followed the business there for two years. From that place he came to Neillsville in 1868 and has since made his home here. Politically he is a Republican. He is known as one of the best rifle shots in the country, and is a total abstainer from gambling and the use of whisky, beer, tobacco, and even tea and coffee. September 3, 1872, Me. Taylor married Nellie Chase, a native of Franklin County, Vermont. She was educated at Friendship Academy and Alfred University, in Allegany County, New York, was engaged in teaching in the public schools of New York nine years and in Wisconsin two terms. Her father died in Franklin County, Vermont, in 1855.