William Mackergo Taylor

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William Mackergo Taylor
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Born(1829-10-23)October 23, 1829
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland
DiedFebruary 8, 1895(1895-02-08) (aged 65)
New York, New York, United States
Burial placeWoodlawn Cemetery
EducationUniversity of Glasgow
OccupationClergyman, writer
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William Mackergo Taylor (1829–1895) was an American Congregational minister

Biography[]

William Mackergo Taylor was born at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland on October 23, 1829.[1] He graduated at the University of Glasgow (1849), and at the divinity hall of the United Presbyterian Church, Edinburgh (1852).

He was pastor of churches in Britain till 1872 (for 17 years one in Liverpool). He entered the United States where he became pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle (Congregational), in New York till 1893 when a paralytic stroke caused his retirement.

He wrote biographies of Rev. Matthew Dickie (1872) and John Knox (1885) and published numerous volumes of sermons and discourses, of which those of a biographical character on Joseph, Moses, David, Elijah, Daniel, and Paul were very popular. He lectured at Yale in 1876 and at Princeton in 1880. He published The Scottish Pulpit from the Reformation to the Present Day (1887).

He died in New York City on February 8, 1895, and was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. II. James T. White & Company. 1921. p. 189. Retrieved May 5, 2021 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "Funeral of the Rev. Dr. Taylor". The New York Times. February 13, 1895. p. 9. Retrieved May 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.
  • This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. Missing or empty |title= (help)

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