Miami Union

May 25, 1872 

TAYLOR, E. B. - Death of E. B. Taylor - We chronicle with regret the death of an old friend.  Edward B. Taylor, in early life a citizen of this county, afterwards for many years a resident of Greenville, Darke county, (where as editor and publisher of the Greenville Journal, he became well known all over the state,) and for the past ten years a resident of Nebraska, died at his home in Omaha on Monday last.  Mr. Taylor's boyhood and early manhood were spent in Piqua.  His mother--a widow--being in very indigent circumstances, her son received little or no education.  His school education extended but little, if any, beyond spelling and reading.  Being, however, an active, energetic boy, he was taken as an apprentice to the printing business by W. R. Barrington, Esq., in the office of the Piqua Gazette.  Here he began to develop rapidly, and by the time he was twenty years of age he was one of the best practical printers in the country.  In 1840-41--the paper having passed in the hands of the Messrs. Vaile--Mr. Taylor, though still quite young, had almost the sole management of it.  In the fall of the latter year we bought the office, took Mr. T. in as a partner, and commenced the publication of "Piqua Register."  We remained together two years, when, the business being rather small for two, he went out, purchased a small office in Greenville, (not then running) and soon built up one of the best country papers in Ohio, which he continued to publish for a number of years.  He afterwards sold the Journal and became President and general superintendent of the Greenville and Miami Railroad.  Soon after Mr. Lincoln became President, Mr. Taylor received an appointment to one of the Government Land offices in Nebraska, to which Territory he removed.  He there established a printing office and for several years had the Territorial printing.  He had been for some time and still was, at the time of his death, a member of the Republican National Executive Committee.  Mr. Taylor was a man of good intellect, and possessed indomitable energy and perseverance.  His age was somewhere between 50 and 55 years.