History of Fairview, (Guernsey County) Ohio United States of America

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David D. Taylor, Editor and Politician, was born near Fairview, Guernsey county, Ohio, July 24th, 1842, being one of nine sons whose parents were natives of Virginia, but were raised in Ohio. His father was a farmer in moderate circumstances, who during the latter portion of his life engaged quite successfully in the practice of law. David received his education in the common and select schools, and for a time at a school taught by General George W. Hoge. When eighteen years old he became an apprentice in a newspaper office, where he remained a few months, and, the rebellion having just begun, then joined the 85th Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private, serving with that command four months, the term of his enlistment. He returned to Combridge and re-entered the newspaper office, teaching in the hiatus in some of the county and village schools. In 1866 he became associate editor of the Guernsey Times, a journal started by Mr. John Aiken in 1824. In 1868 he obtained a partnership interest in this paper, and held it until January 1st, 1872, during which time that journal steadily advanced in influence and greatly increased its circulation. He was appointed County School Examiner, filling the duties of this office for a term of three years. In January, 1874, he re-purchased his former interest in the Guernsey Times. Mr. Taylor is an easy, graceful and forcible writer, thoroughly versed in political affairs, in the discussion of which he has been, whenever great issues were at stake, very prominent. He is an enterprising newspaper man, thoroughly alive to the needs of an influential journal, and has in this professional labor earned a high as well as extended reputation. In May, 1875, he was appointed Postmaster of Cambridge, and discharged the duties of that office with intelligence and zeal. He was married, December 28th, 1871, to Martha Craig, of that city, who is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan Female College, of Delaware, taught the Cambridge High School, and at times writes with ability for her husband's newspaper.

From: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ohio of the Nineteenth Century. Columbus, OH, USA: Galaxy Publishing Co., 1876.

History of Fairview, (Guernsey County) Ohio

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