Show I BISHOP TAYLOR I Y Pioneer Claimed by Pneumonia at Age of Seven Seven I PROMINENT IN BUSINESS I HAD BEEN LUMBER DEALER AL ALMOST ALMOST MOST FIFTY YEARS After a business career of or almost half halfa a century In Salt Lake Bishop George Hamilton Taylor of 01 the Fourteenth ward who blew the first steam whistle heard In Salt Lake and planed the first board planed by machinery in the state died of or pneumonia at his home borne in Sugar ward at Ii 5 yesterday afternoon Mr Tay Ta Talor lor br was senior member of the Taylor Romney Lumber company com pan of Salt Lake and had been prominent as a lumber deal dealer er or for many years ears He lie was one of 01 the founders of the firm firn which he belonged to at the time of his death First Lati Latimer Latimer Latimer mer Taylor it became successively Lat LatImer LatImer LatImer Imer Taylor Co Taylor Romney Arm Armstrong Armstrong Armstrong strong company nd the Lumber company compan and grew to t be a big bi business concern Had Interesting Career Mr Ir Taylor Talor was born Nov No 4 IKS 1 lS at West Bloomfield N K J After limited I educational advantages vantages al as a child he lie left home to work when he ho was 11 years oil and for several year labored on farm farmin in factories and stores in New Jersey Jerse and New York City Cily At the ago age of 16 he be began began began gan to 10 learn the time trade of calico engraving at et Jf X Y anti and worked at that thal ten years ears He lit became a Mormon convert in 1849 1819 He lIe married Elmina Shepard Au Aug Ul 31 1856 and anti left for Salt Lake ip it the spring sprin of 1850 lie He and his wife crossed the plains with an ox os team Mr Ir Taylor had cents in mon money money ey e when they Salt Lake Sept 16 l 1550 He accepted a job at tending the th tail tall of a circular saw in Big Cottonwood canyon can on the day da of his arrival and thus begun the work that filled the tho iest of his life After the firm of Latimer Taylor had been formed machinery was brought to Salt Lake at great cost on borrowed borrow d I capital The Tiie firm prospered for months when the plant was destroyed by bv fire Latimer Taylor Talor Co was formed later and since then thou the business has been successful Mr 11 Taylor had been ill III ten clays s H lie became bishop of the time Fourteenth Fourt nth ward Oct 11 wind and held the position at the time of his death He had three wives 5 two of or whom are living and several chil children Iron dren Arrangements for the funeral have not been made a r I I I Bishop George Georgc Hamilton Taylor I |