. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . e was bornin Char lest own,Mass., July 14, 1846,the son of John Abigail R. (Hap-good) Taylor. Heleft school at the ageof fifteen, and wentto work in a Bostonprinting-office, wherehe learned the tradeof a compositor. .\year later, when hewas employed in theTraveller office, heenlisted in theThirty-eighth Mas-sachusetts Regiment,and served in thefield until woundedin the memorable as-sault on Port Hud-son, June 14, to Boston,he re-entered
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . e was bornin Char lest own,Mass., July 14, 1846,the son of John Abigail R. (Hap-good) Taylor. Heleft school at the ageof fifteen, and wentto work in a Bostonprinting-office, wherehe learned the tradeof a compositor. .\year later, when hewas employed in theTraveller office, heenlisted in theThirty-eighth Mas-sachusetts Regiment,and served in thefield until woundedin the memorable as-sault on Port Hud-son, June 14, to Boston,he re-entered theTraveller office, andsoon made his markas a reporter. Hemastered the diffi-culties of shorthand, and did much notable work asa stenographer. As Boston correspondent of the NewYork Tribune and the Cincinnati Times, he earned con-siderable reputation. In 1869 he became jirivate sec-retary to Governor Claflin, and a member of the lattersmilitary staff, with the rank of colonel, and as ColonelTaylor he has since been known throughout NewEngland, though by the more recent appointment ofGovernor Russell he is now properly addressed as. CHARLES H. TAYLOR General Taylor. In 1872 he was elected to the Houseof Representatives from Somerville, and was re-electedthe following year, receiving the unusual honor on bothoccasions of being the unanimous choice of his fellow-citizens, regardless of party lines. He was electedclerk of the House in 1873, and served until Augustof that year, when he took charge of the Boston Globe,then a new paper, which had been started about a yearbefore, and which was struggling hard to obtain a foot hold among the oldBoston dailies. Fornearly five yearsColonel Taylor hadan uphill struggle,and in that periodhe suffered enoughdiscouragements tohave completely dis-heartened any ordinary man. TheGlobe in those dayswas narrow, ex-tremely literary, andcorrespondingly un-remunerat i V e. OnMarch 7, 1878,Colonel Taylor tooka bold step and re-organized the Globeas a
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