Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-07-18

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OBITUARY;-On the 18th of July, 1873, Mr..
tranck Taylor, of Washington, passed from
heart. ~. " Wv
Mr.. Taylor was by birth a native of England,
put by choice and association an American
citl1en OF true and tried loyalty, such as many
native born might have envied and tried to
emulate. For forty-fve years he was a resident
OF Washington, and his career there as book
seller and publisher, and as private citizen,
was such as to win the admir- alton, respect and
love OF all those with whom he was brought in
contact. His education and culture were of
the rare old English model, and it was seldom
indeed that any man of talent or eminence
came into communication with him without
forming an attachment which rapidly ripened
into friendship. In this way he came to court
amongst his intimate personal friends such men
as Henry Clay, Willard Fillmore, Webster,
Benton, Pierce, Corwin, and others too hume
rous to mention. ~
Upright and persevering he succeeded in bust
ness, and to these qualities he added those of q
quick wit, ready appreciation, a genial humor
and far reaching charity, which made him
universally beloved. His purity of life, mind
and manners was such that, If It be indeed the
pure in heart who see God, those who are left
behind can Ill afford to weep for one who has
gone before his N-1tor with Credentials such as
his. He might, indeed, have said. with Ben
Adhen to the recording angel, "write me as one
who loves his fellow men," His charity led him
to work and labor during the war, for the ale
Walton of the suffering, without regard for pO-
litieal complexion, in such a way that to- day, il
his modesty had not, kept his participation in
many of his good deeds hidden, the name of
FraIck Taylor would be blessed in families
from Maine IN Georgia .fI
When our troops were suffering for the want
of blankets, Mr.. Taylor went to his house and
stripped 1t of blankets, Offering at the same
time his carpets, that the soldiers might not suf-
fer; when relief lists were formed his name was
ever found on them, and, after given all in his
power to remedy the deficiencies In our hospital
sy stem, when q hospital was established at
Clifton for wounded and sick Confederates. he
was among the first to give his time and money
to tighten their sufferings. An ardent loyalist,
country, against the flag which had seltered
his youth and which he loved he did his best to
defeat them, but wounded ana suffering, his
warm, loving heart knew them only as his fell
low-men, and he deprived himself, and gave
his time and care to help them. 49,. "a
spoken of; one thing of which he was always
proud, and Of which in days 10 come those TO
whom he has transmitted his spoken name may
well be proud also. When doubt and despair
clouded our political horizon, Mr.. Taylor, feel
ing that he owed al 70 the coantry, took al his
available funds and laid them 1t the service OF
the country. He was the first man in the United
States 10 take the loan-President Lincoln be-
ing the secondhand to-day In his house hangs
framed letter A. No. 4, the hrst treasury note
And now, that with years ana honors drowned,
he has been cut of In life that none can fail to
feel was too short, those whom he has left be-
hind, those to whom his charities made him a
benefactor, those to whom his inner life made
him loved friend. all Of thoss whom he has
left to mourn him, can at least hnd comfort in
the thought that they know his verdict before
| the great tribunal, -'Well DONE good and faith.
f1l servant, enter thou Into the joy Of thy
Lord"