Robert A. Taylor, Jr. of Baltimore, c1850. Taylor was the son of William Wallace Taylor Jr. and Catharine Augusta Birckhead. His father was the Director of the Union Bank of Maryland and was also linked with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. (The family lived in 7 West Mount Vernon Place, making them the neighbours of William Thompson Walters, founder of the Walters Art Museum). Taylor was involved in numerous local businesses, and was also a Justice of the Peace. In 1858 he married Mary Maught, from a landowning and milling family from Frederick County, Maryland.

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