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N. G. Taylor
Unknown birthdate, Happy Valley, TN
Born in 1819, Happy Valley, TN
Born in December of 1819, Happy Valley, TN
Born on December 29, 1819, Happy Valley, TN
Unknown death date,
Died in 1887,
Died in April of 1887,
Died on April 1, 1887,
 
 
Biography
​Nathaniel G. Taylor attended Washington College in Tennessee and gr​​aduated from Princeton in 1840. In the following year, he began practicing law in Elizabethton, Tennessee. ​​He was a US Representative from 1854 to 1855. During the Civil War, he raised money for the relief of "war sufferers" in eastern Tennessee, and after th​e War wa​​​s again elected to Congress 1866-1867). Taylor was US Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1867 to 1869, during which time he traveled in the west, making treaties as part of a "Peace Commission." He then retired and "devoted himself to farming and preaching."
 
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United States Congress. Biographical directory of the United States Congress, 1774-present. Washington, D.C.: United States Congress, 1998.
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