Edward L. Taylor Jr.
Edward Livingston Taylor Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Columbus, Ohio, he was the son of Edward and Kathryn Taylor. Edward Sr. was the son of David Taylor, the founder of Truro Township and his wife Margaret Livingston, related to the Livingston and Schuyler families of New York.
Taylor attended the public schools and was graduated from the Columbus High School.
He studied law. He married Marie Firestone Taylor.
He was admitted to the bar in 1891 and commenced practice in Columbus.
He served as prosecuting attorney of Franklin County 1899-1904.
Taylor was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress.
He continued the practice of law in Columbus, Ohio, until his death of throat and larynx cancer on March 10, 1938 at his modest home on Granville Street in the Woodland Park neighborhood of Columbus.
He was interred in Greenlawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio.
Taylor married Marie Agnes Firestone of Columbus on January 4, 1894. She was the daughter of Clinton D. Firestone, president of the Columbus Buggy Company, a carriage and vehicle factory and early automobile manufacturer.
