The Wilmingtonian, And Delaware Advertiser

The last volume of the Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence contains notices of nine of the American patriots who rendered their names immortal by affixing them to the chart of American Liberty. Of those, the early life of George Taylor is the most remarkable. With but an indifferent education he emigrated from Ireland, arrived in this country without a sixpence in his pocket, and bound himself to an owner of ironworks, who advanced his passage fees. Taylor was immediately set to work as a filler. From the blisters on his hands it was soon discovered that he was unused to such labor, when his employer kindly transferred him from the shovel to the pen; and in capacity of clerk, Taylor soon made himself an important member of the establishment. His employer dying, he married the widow, and became proprietor of the whole concern. Having amassed a fortune by prudent management and great industry, he was called into public life; and from the provincial assembly of Pennsylvania, he was advanced to a seat in Congress of '76.