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Franklin Taylor (February 5, 1843 – March 19, 1919) was an English pianist, organist, music educator, and writer on music. Life and career.
Taylor was born in 1856 to a Quaker family in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylor's father, Franklin Taylor, a Princeton-educated lawyer, built his wealth on mortgages. [5] Taylor's mother, Emily Annette Taylor (née Winslow), was an ardent abolitionist and a coworker with Lucretia Mott.
Jim Taylor was an African American man who lived and worked as a sharecropper on a farm owned by James Hodge, two miles from Franklin. [1] He was described as "a very large negro", who was "feared by his own race and regarded as desperate" by The Daily American, [1] and as "a dangerous character" by The Leaf-Chronicle.
Eddie Taylor: 1923 1985 Mississippi Chicago blues [310] Hound Dog Taylor: 1917* 1975 Mississippi Electric blues [311] Koko Taylor: 1935* 2009 Tennessee Electric blues [312] Sam Taylor: 1916 1990 Tennessee Urban blues [313] Sonny Terry: 1911 1986 Georgia Country blues [314] Tabby Thomas: 1929 2014 Louisiana Louisiana blues [315] Big Mama ...
Deborah Read Franklin (c. 1708 – December 19, 1774) was the common-law wife of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States until her death in 1774. Early years [ edit ]
Four presidents died in office of natural causes (William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Warren G. Harding, and Franklin D. Roosevelt), four were assassinated (Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy), and one resigned (Richard Nixon, facing impeachment and removal from office). [9]
Franklin Taylor Dupree Jr. (October 8, 1913 – December 17, 1995) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Education and career
Taylor was a descendant of Elder William Brewster, a Pilgrim leader of the Plymouth Colony, a Mayflower immigrant, and a signer of the Mayflower Compact; and Isaac Allerton Jr., a colonial merchant, colonel, and son of Mayflower Pilgrim Isaac Allerton and Fear Brewster. Taylor's second cousin through that line was James Madison, the fourth ...