Items Regarding

Carlo R. Taylor

Transcribed by L. John Ribar for the Marquette Co WI Pages



Source: Portrait and Biographical Album of Green Lake, Marquette and Waushara Counties, Wisconsin, 
published 1890 by Acme Publishing Co., Chicago, Pages 236, 264, 583ff

Page 236 [Berlin] - May or may not be Carlo ...

Early in the same spring [1848] a valuable addition was made to the 
number of the settlers by the arrival of the family of C. R. Taylor, 
who immediately began the frame building and opened in it the first 
hotel in the settlement. The house later came to be known as the Union 
House, but Mr. Taylor named it the Berlin House in honor of the Berlin 
post-office which had just been established. The building was so far 
completed that he was able to open the house to the public, which he 
did with a grand opening ball, July 4, 1848. That ball was larger than 
any other ball that was had in Berlin for more than a decade afterward, 
and it was long talked of by those who took part in it.

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Page 264

Berlin Lodge, No. 38, A. F. and A. M.

This lodge was constituted by dispensation Nov. 18, 1851, and chartered 
June 11, 1852. ... Each of the following named members has served one or 
more terms as Worshipful Master: John S. Willis, James Ridpath, Carlo R. 
Taylor, ...

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Page 583ff

Carlo R. Taylor, undertaker and insurance agent, of Berlin, was born in 
Lewiston, Niagra Co., N.Y., Oct. 9, 1821. His father, Levi Taylor, was 
born in Southeastern Vermont, on the Connecticut River, and was descended 
from an old New England family. His mother, whose maiden name was Lucy 
Reed, was born in New York, and was of an old Connecticut family. Carlo 
R., while an infant, accompanied his parents in their removal to Lockport,
N.Y., where he was reared and received an academic education. When his 
school life was over he worked at the printer's trade in Lockport until 
the winter of 1837-8, when he went to Ypsilanti, Mich., where he spent 
one year, at the expiration of which time he removed to Ionia County of 
the same State, where his mother still resides.  He engaged in farming 
in that county until 1843, at which time he became a resident of Indiana, 
settling near South Bend, where he was employed by the St. Joseph Iron 
Company. He came to Wisconsin in the interests of that company in 1848, 
and established a plant at Mayville, Dodge County, and continued in the 
service of the company for some years in a confidential capacity. In the 
spring of 1850 we find him in Green Lake County, having established 
business in Princeton, as a hardware dealer, to which stock he 
subsequently added general merchandise. He did not long remain in 
Princeton, however, but the same year came to Berlin, where he built and 
operated the first foundry and machine shop, which he conducted until 
1859. He then sold out and the following year went South, where he was 
actively engaged in business operations until 1865. On his return to the 
North, he again settled in Ionia, Mich., where he engaged in the stave 
and heading business until his removal to Indiana, when he went upon the 
road as an adjuster of claims against parties who had been guilty of 
infringement of patent, for a manufacturing company. He spent three years 
in that manner, during which time, his business calling him to Colorado, 
he engaged to some extent in prospecting and mining and other enterprises.
He crossed the plains ten times, having made five trips to Colorado. In 
the spring of 1884 he returned to Berlin and engaged in his present 
business.

Mr. Taylor has been twice married, his first union being celebrated in 
Mishawaka, Ind., in December, 1845, when Miss Martha Nicar became his 
wife. She was a native of Virginia and a daughter of Robert Nicar. Her 
death occurred in South Bend, Ind., in the fall of 1882, leaving five 
children, three sons and two daughters: Mary is now the wife of J. C. 
Taylor, of Ionia, Mich.; George married Ella Childs, and resides in 
Elkhart, Ind.; Ellen is the wife of Gordon M. Murray, of Napanee, Ind.; 
Robert R. is married and resides in South Bend, Ind.; Edwin P. is first 
assistant physician in the Mendota Hospital for the Insane, at Mendota, 
Wis.  Mr. Taylor was married in Berlin in the fall of 1883, to Miss 
Eliza Brown, daughter of Lewis and Elizabeth R. Brown. She was born in 
Allegany County, N.Y., and came to Wisconsin with her parents in 1843. 
She spent some years in Walworth County, then came to Berlin with her 
mother in 1850, and has there resided ever since.  Mrs. Taylor was one 
of the founders of the "Friends in Council,", in 1873, and is a graduate 
from the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle in the class of 1883.

My. Taylor is a Democrat in politics, and previous to the war served as 
Deputy United States Marshal under Marshal Thomas, and later under Marshal
Lewis, of Wisconsin. He was also chairman of the town of Berlin several 
years, and served as Alderman and Member of the Berlin School Board in 
early times. He is a charter member of the Berlin Lodge, No. 38, A.F. & 
A.M., and was the first one in Berlin to receive the Master's Degree, and 
filled the chair in the East several times. He was chosen District 
Lecturer of the order, and served in that capacity some time. Mr. Taylor 
is a member of the Episcopal Church, and is an upright, honorable 
gentleman, whom even his bitterest political enemies have never failed to 
respect.







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