From History of Walworth County Wisconsin by Albert Clayton Beckwith, Vol. II, 
Publ. 1912 - age 1025-1026
 
GEORGE G. TAYLOR.  It is always pleasant and profitable to contemplate the 
career of a man who has made a success of life and on the honor and respect of 
his fellow citizens.  Such is the record, briefly stated, of the well known 
and progressive gentleman whose name forms the caption of this article, than 
whom a more deserving and honorable gentleman it would be difficult to find 
within the limits of Walworth county.
 
George G. TAYLOR, of Lagrange township, was born at Mid Hope, Yorkshire, 
England, May 7, 1850.  He is the son of George and Ann (GREIVES) TAYLOR, both 
of the vicinity in England, mentioned above, where they grew up and were 
married.  They came to America in 1854 and in July of that year arrived in 
Lagrange township, Walworth county, where they settled, about one-half mile 
from where the subject now resides, buying forty acres that fall and there 
they spent the rest of their lives.  The place had some rude improvements on 
it, having been broken and a log house built on it.
 
Seven children were born to Mr. and Mrs. George TAYLOR, of whom the subject of 
this review was the youngest.  The father became a citizen and always voted, 
taking much interest in public affairs.  He and his wife were members of the 
Episcopal church.
 
When twenty-one years of age George G. TAYLOR started farming for himself, in 
1875, after having attended the early schools in Lagrange township for a 
time.  He soon had a start and purchased one hundred and sixty acres, and he 
has made general farming and stock raising his life work, being now very 
comfortably situated, having a well improved and productive farm and a 
pleasant home, which he built west of Lagrange in 1900.  He has prospered by 
good management and close application until he is now the owner of two hundred 
and forty acres of as valuable land as this county can boast.  He carried on 
general farming and stock raising, and an excellent grade of stock is always 
to be found about this place.  He retained the home place up to four years ago.
 
Mr. TAYLOR was married about 1887 to Ann WEST, who was born in Whiteside 
county, Illinois, her parents having emigrated to Clyde township, that county, 
by wagons from Chicago in an early day.  The subject and wife had had no 
children of their own, but they have reared Martha GISLERUD.  Mr. TAYLOR is a 
Republican politically, but he was never an aspirant for public office.  He 
attends and supports the Methodist Episcopal church.
 
Submitted by Carol