BIO:  John Asbury Taylor, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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Part II, Biographical Sketches, Shrewsbury Township, Pg 183

JOHN ASBURY TAYLOR, M. D., born in York County, April 30, 1838, is a son of John and Rachel 
(Gilbert) Taylor, of German, English and Irish extraction.  The Taylor family came from 
Maryland to York County, about the year 1814.  John Taylor (the father of John A.), served 
through the war of 1812, in a Maryland regiment, and died in 1861, at the age of seventy-one 
years.  His wife, Rachel, died in 1873, aged seventy-nine years.  They had four sons and five 
daughters, who are all living in York County, except one son and one daughter who are buried in 
Hancock County, Ohio.  The subject of our sketch is the youngest of the family and received an 
academic education in Hopewell and Shrewsbury Academies; taught in the public schools six 
years; read medicine in the office of Dr. J. R. Bardwell, in Stewartstown, two years, then at 
the age of twenty-six entered Maryland University, at Baltimore, and while attending lectures, 
read in the office of Dr. John Starr; graduated March 3, 1866, with the degree of M. D.; 
returned to York County, and began the practice of medicine, where he has since lived, on his 
farm of 132 acres about one mile and a half south by east of Shrewsbury, where he devotes his 
whole time to his profession and to farming.  He has served as clerk, as school director and as 
auditor of Shrewsbury Township; was a delegate to the State Democratic Convention in 1883, and 
to county convention at different times.  He was married, in Fawn Township in 1876, to 
Augustina R. Barton, daughter of Thomas Barton, of English descent.  She died March 8, 1883, a 
member of the Presbyterian Church.  Dr. Taylor was brought up in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church, but is now of the Lutheran faith, though not a member.