JOSEPH C. TAYLOR.

Judge Taylor died young but highly esteemed. The Taylors of Virginia are a notable family and wherever the name is known it has been distinguished for good sense and character.

The first John Taylor married Catharine Pendleton and had ten children. A son of his, George Edmond, married Anne Lewis. Their son, Edmond, married Ann Day, daughter of a Revolutionary officer. Their son, William Day Taylor, who was born in Hanover County, Va., in 1781, married Eliza Adams Marshall, daughter of William Marshall and niece of Chief Justice John Marshall.

James Marshall Taylor, grandfather of Judge Joseph C. Taylor, was born in Hanover County April 27, 1822. Mr. Taylor married Isabel de Leon Jacobs, a celebrated beauty of Richmond, on the 14th of February, 1844. Of their ten children, Charles Alexander Taylor, traffic manager of the R., F. & P. R. R., was Judge Taylor's father. Not to mention any other members of his family, few railroad men have been better known in Virginia than his father, whose name used to appear upon the tickets of the R., F. & P. Railroad, as did the name of his uncle, Warren, who, upon Judge Taylor's father's death in August, 1898, succeeded to the same position.

After the loss of his father, Joseph C. Taylor became a diligent and faithful student. The ambition to become a great lawyer was natural in one who had John Marshall for a great, very great uncle. And so Joe Taylor studied law and had at an early age. reached a fine position in his profession. He formed a partnership with B. Randolph Wellford and achieved the reputation for prudence, learning and industry. To the firm came those who wanted wise counsel and learned counsel.

When it became known that a new court would be created in Richmond, to be known as the Law and Equity Court, Part II, Joseph C. Taylor was brought out by his friends as a candidate,

and he was elected over able and honorable opponents. He soon made a place for himself in the estimation of his brethren of the bench and bar. Patient, laborious, humorous and fearless, he decided his cases promptly and justly.

Ill health attacked him and without remorse or repining, having done the work of a man and written his name high in the list of those who have served the State and city faithfully, he died a young man, having done a full life's work, and done it well. He never married, but was beloved by a host of nieces and nephews.

Judge Taylor's mother was Miss Crenshaw, of the well-known family of that name, so celebrated for intelligence, probity and industry. Her son was worthy of her character and training and ever reflected the traits mentioned most worthily.