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HISTORY OF ,.DALLAS COUNTY.
sonville, Florida. He remained there until
the yellow fever broke out. Leaving Jacksonville
he went to Greenville, Mississippi;
but did not escape that dread disease, yellow
fever. However, the use of a very simple
remedy saved his life. From Mississippi he
moved to Arkansas, where lie engaged in the
manufacture of carriages until 1881. In
that year he came to Dallas county, where he
established himself in his early trade. As a
workman in this line he has few equals and
perhaps no superiors. He has also dealt
largely in real estate, and has made considerable
money in this way. In 1890 he was
elected Alderman by an overwhelming majority,
George T. Lack being the opposing
candidate. He has made an efficient officer
and has assisted very materially in the growth
and development of the city. In the council
he is now chairman of the Committee on
Streets and Bridges. He was elected April 2,
1892, by the largest vote of any councilman
in the city of Dallas; also from the largest
ward in the city. He has always been
alive to the business interests of the city of
Dallas. He is progressive in his views and
believes in keeping abreast of latter-day,
nineteenth-century progress.
Mr. Conroy was married in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, in 1872, and three children
were the result of this union. The wife died
and he was married the second time in 1883
in Dallas, Texas. Two daughters and one
son were born in the last marriage. He is a
member of the Knights of Pythias, Knights
of the Golden Eagle, of the Red Men, and
also of the A. O. U. W. He is a member of
the Roiman Catholic Church and is an ardent
Jeffersonian Democrat. He has been the
main advocate of some of the best ordinances
nowr in force in the city of Dallas. In all his
intercourse with his fellow citizens, bothprivate and public, he has been found true to
every trust, competent and faithful in every
position to which he has been called, and always
an upright, honorable man and a
thoroughgoing and enterprising citizen.
B. TAYLOR, 'a dairyman of Precinct
No. 1, Dallas county, was
Q born in Spartanburgh district, South
Carolina, May 16, 1844, the second in a
family of five children born to Stephen and
Matilda (Jones) Taylor, natives of South
Carolina. The parents both died in 1857,
in less than three months of each other.
W. B., our subject, was reared and educated
in his native State, and in May, 1866, he
came to Dallas county. He and his brother
drove a team through Illinois to Missouri by
way of Georgia, northern Alabama, a corner
of Mississippi, west Tennessee and Kentucky,
taking a steamboat to Cape Girardeau, Missouri,
and thence came to this county.
Here, in 1866, Mr. Taylor bought 550
acres of land, to which he has since added
until he now owns 610 acres, all under a good
state of cultivation. He has always taken an
active interest in politics, voting with the
Democratic party. Socially, he is a member
of James A. Smith Lodge, No. 395, A. F. and religiously, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Cochran Chapel.
April 16, 1861, Mr. Taylor enlisted in
Company D, Third South Carolina Infantry,
for one year in the State service. He went
first to Columbia, was drilled two months,
next re-enlisted for one year in the Confederate
army, and at the expiration of that time
an order came for all men between the ages
of eighteen and forty-five years to be pressed
into service. Mr. Taylor was in the firstI
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/933/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.