Thomas Hulme Taylor
1826 - 1891 (65 years)
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Name Thomas Hulme Taylor [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Birth 1826 Can 
[1] Born 10 Sep 1826 Toronto (Probably Weston), York, Ontario, Canada [2] Gender Male Occupation merchant, municipal politician Occupation 1871 Cloth Manufacturer Residence 1871 Ontario, Canada [2] Died 3 Nov 1891 Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada [1] Person ID I19110 Brown Genealogy Last Modified 19 Sep 2024
Father Capt. William Taylor, b. 11 Apr 1794, Manchester, Lancashire, England , d. 19 May 1846, Dawn Mills, Camden Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada (Age 52 years) Relationship natural Mother Sarah Chew, b. Abt 18 Oct 1797, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England , d. 26 Feb 1858, Dawn Mills, Camden Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 60 years) Relationship natural Married 30 Mar 1815 Christ's Church Cathedral, Rye, Westchester, New York, USA Family ID F4931 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Maria Lent Bogart, b. 25 Jun 1827, Adolphustown, Quinte, Greater Napanee, Ontario, Canada , d. 22 Sep 1908, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada (Age 81 years) Married 8 Mar 1848 Kent County, Ontario, Canada Children 1. Mary Elizabeth Taylor, b. 29 Jan 1849, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. 5 Oct 1930, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada (Age 81 years) [natural]2. Jennie Taylor, b. 1852, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. UNKNOWN [natural]3. Agnes Taylor, b. 1854, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. 6 Feb 1892 (Age 38 years) [natural]4. Alice Taylor, b. 1856, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. UNKNOWN [natural]5. Ella Eugenia Taylor, b. 10 May 1859, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. 26 Oct 1921, Kingsville, Essex County, Ontario, Canada (Age 62 years) [natural]6. Walter Hulme Taylor, b. 14 Sep 1861, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. 19 Apr 1933, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada (Age 71 years) [natural]7. William James Taylor, b. 27 Nov 1863, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. 26 Oct 1933, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada (Age 69 years) [natural]8. Thomas Trumpour Taylor, b. 25 Apr 1867, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. 11 May 1896, Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Age 29 years) [natural]9. Grace Laura Maud Taylor, b. 5 Oct 1870, Chatham, Kent County, Ontario, Canada , d. Aft 1911 (Age > 42 years) [natural]Last Modified 19 Sep 2024 Family ID F4921 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Thomas Hulme Taylor, son of Captain William Taylor, inherited his father's flour and saw mills in Dawn Mills. To these he added, almost immediately, a wool factory. As owner of the flour, wool, and saw mills, and part-owner of the general store Thomas Taylor was an important figure in the Dawn Mills community. When the Great Western Railway was coming through, he campaigned unsuccessfully to have it come through Dawn Mills; instead, in 1854, the railroad went to the nearby town of Chatham. Business in Dawn Mills began to migrate to Chatham. Because of his family's founding history in Dawn Mills, Thomas Taylor was reluctant to move his business interests to Chatham. When his mother died in 1858 that seemed to free him to leave Dawn Mills and move to Chatham where the Taylor Mills Company remained in the family serving Kent County until well into the mid-20th century. When Taylor moved to Chatham he sold one of his mills to Alexander McVean who moved the mill to nearby Dresden. (c.f. Alexander McVean's lineage for a later marital connection to Taylor's sister, Alice Prangley, and for a surprising connection to this author four generations later.)
Regrettably, Taylor's departure from Dawn Mills dealt a permanent economic blow to that once thriving village. Today the village of Dawn Mills no longer exists except as a dot on the map, a few houses, and the remnants of three dams where the mills once stood.
In Chatham "T.H. Taylor & Co. operated on William Street just north of the Taylor-Richards flour mills, their Chatham Woollen Mills, established in 1869. Capital was about $60,000, the plant employing some 30 hands and consuming annually about 50,000 pounds of wool." (Romantic Kent, p.522)
"The floating logs (on the Thames River)... formed a passageway over the rainbow-hued waters. The varied colors periodically tinging the creek came from the T.H. Taylor curing mill and dyeing works just around the creek bend, where blankets and many varieties of coating material were woven. Products of the Taylor Mill, then one of Chatham's foremost industries, were widely known for quality; Detroiters visiting Chatham on the excursion boats were extensive purchasers." (Romantic Kent, p.529)
- Thomas Hulme Taylor, son of Captain William Taylor, inherited his father's flour and saw mills in Dawn Mills. To these he added, almost immediately, a wool factory. As owner of the flour, wool, and saw mills, and part-owner of the general store Thomas Taylor was an important figure in the Dawn Mills community. When the Great Western Railway was coming through, he campaigned unsuccessfully to have it come through Dawn Mills; instead, in 1854, the railroad went to the nearby town of Chatham. Business in Dawn Mills began to migrate to Chatham. Because of his family's founding history in Dawn Mills, Thomas Taylor was reluctant to move his business interests to Chatham. When his mother died in 1858 that seemed to free him to leave Dawn Mills and move to Chatham where the Taylor Mills Company remained in the family serving Kent County until well into the mid-20th century. When Taylor moved to Chatham he sold one of his mills to Alexander McVean who moved the mill to nearby Dresden. (c.f. Alexander McVean's lineage for a later marital connection to Taylor's sister, Alice Prangley, and for a surprising connection to this author four generations later.)
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Sources - [S5] Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online.
Record for Thomas Herline Taylor - [S4] Ontario, Canada Census Index, 1871, This index to the 1871 Ontario, Canada Census was created by volunteers from the Ontario Genealogical Society from data supplied by Library and Archives Canada., (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online.
Record for Thomas H Taylor - [S5] Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online.
Record for William James Taylor - [S5] Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online.
Record for Walter Hulme Taylor - [S18] Ontario, Canada Births, 1858-1913, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online.
Record for Grace Laura Maud Taylor
- [S5] Ontario, Canada, Deaths, 1869-1938, 1943-1944, and Deaths Overseas, 1939-1947, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Database online.