Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . ,— t ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfthresident of the United States,was born on the 24th of Nov.,1784, in Orange Co., Va. His3!b father. Colonel Taylor, wasa Virginian of note, and a dis-tinguished patriot and soldier ofthe Revolution. When Zachaiywas an infant, his father with hiswife and two children, emigratedto Kentuckj-, where he settled inthe pathless wilderness, a fewes from Louisville. In this front-ier home, away from civilization andall its refinements, young Zacharycould enjoy but few social and educational advan-tages. When
Portrait and biographical album of Lancaster county, Nebraska . ,— t ACHARY TAYLOR, twelfthresident of the United States,was born on the 24th of Nov.,1784, in Orange Co., Va. His3!b father. Colonel Taylor, wasa Virginian of note, and a dis-tinguished patriot and soldier ofthe Revolution. When Zachaiywas an infant, his father with hiswife and two children, emigratedto Kentuckj-, where he settled inthe pathless wilderness, a fewes 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, fearless and self-reliant, andmanifested a strong desire to enter the army to fightthe Lidians wlio were ravaging the frontiers. Thereis little to be recorded of the uneventful years of hischildhood on his fathers large but lonely plantation.\\\ 1808, his father succeeded in obtaining for himthe commissio
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