Taylor Genealogy -- It was a pretty good year (1874)

It was a pretty good year (1874)
On Sunday, February 22, 1874, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of George W. and Margaret (Wishart) Miller, was born at Glasgow, Scotland. The baby was probably named after Margaret's sister MARY and her mother, ELIZABETH, both of whom had died in the previous three years. Margaret was a sister of David Wishart, who was living in the Pawnee county area.

On Tuesday, March 31, 1874, Nancy Taylor's 64-year-old father, Nicholas Kerns, passed away and was buried in the cemetery at Table Rock.

A decade earlier at Montrose, Margaret Wishart had been working at Sunnyside Asylum, where she was teaching the sewing craft to several inmates. Apparently, David Wishart sent favorable reports about Nebraska back to his eastern Scotland relatives in Forfarshire county. David's sister had married George Wishart Miller in 1872, and after the birth of a new baby the couple contemplated a fresh start in the New World. During the summer of 1874, Margaret, George, and little Mary Elizabeth arrived in Pawnee county.

In a Downey Street residence over at West Branch, on Monday, August 10, 1874, an Iowa woman named Hulda presented her husband, Jesse Clark Hoover, with a son whom they named Herbert. 54 years later he would become President. Robert Frost, who would become a beloved poet, was born this year in San Francisco, CA, and Guglielmo Marconi, later to invent radio communication, was born in Italy. Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill of England, married an American, Jennie Jerome, and was elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative in 1874. The same year, Jennie, who was part American Indian, gave birth to Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, destined to be the great British statesman of the 20th century.

Nancy Taylor gave birth her fourth time, presenting her husband with a new baby on Wednesday, October 21, 1874. They gave the name Edmond Dallas to the little boy, the ninth child fathered by JOHN.

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