Portrait and biographical records of Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfthPresident of the United States,*was born on the 24th of Nov.,1784, in Orange Co., Va. Hisfather, Colonel Tayjor, wasa Virginian of note, and a dis-tinguished patriot and soldier ofthe Revolution. When Zacharywas an infant, his father with hiswife and two children, emigratedto Kentucky, where he settled inthe pathless wilderness, a fewmiles
Portrait and biographical records of Montgomery and Bond counties, Illinois, containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens, together with biographies and portraits of all the presidents of the United States . ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfthPresident of the United States,*was born on the 24th of Nov.,1784, in Orange Co., Va. Hisfather, Colonel Tayjor, wasa Virginian of note, and a dis-tinguished patriot and soldier ofthe Revolution. When Zacharywas an infant, his father with hiswife and two children, emigratedto Kentucky, where he settled inthe pathless wilderness, a fewmiles from Louisville. In this front-ier home, away from civilization andall its refinements, young Zacharycould enjoy but few social and educational advan-tages. When six years of age he attended a commonschool, and was then regarded as a bright, active boy,rather remarkable for bluntness, and decision of char-acter He was strong, feailess and self-reliant, andmanifested a strong desire to enter the army to fightthe Indians who were ravaging the frontiers. Thereis little to be recorded of the uneventful years of hischildhood 0:1 his fathers large but lonely 1808, his father succeeded in obtaining for himthe commission
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