Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-04-10
DROPS lead IN HIS 7PRlNT SHOP
AT 'WASABURN, MCLEAN
COUNTY.
WAS FOUND LYING ON THE
FLOOR AFTER STROKE OF
NPOPEExY.
WAS ONE OF THE NOTED MIS-.
SOURI, RIVER PIONEERS
OF 1864.
HUNTER, TRAPPER, AUTHOR AND
TERRITORIAL PIONEER
NEWSPAPER MAN.

HIS WAS A LIFE OF THRILLING
ADVENTURE, WITH .ATHREAD
OF ROMANCE.
Another ld-timer-one of the old
est on the Missouri ,river-has passed
away.
At Washburn, Mclean county, 40
miles above Bismarck on the Mis-
souri, river, Joseph Taylor was found
dead in his print shop Thursday morn
ing, possibly of apopfexy. He was
found by Attorney George Gibson,
who went to the Office about g O'Clock
a. m. to ask about some printing. He
had evidently fallen out Of his chair,
and was lying on the floor, with no
evidence of struggle or pain He died
as he had often expressed wish to
die suddenly, quietly, painlessly.
A lover of nature and animals, an
author of several books on frontier
life, Joseph Taylor, although Of an
exclusive, retired nature, was beloved
by all who really knew him, and what
Old-timer has not heard Of or partaken
Of the hospitality OF Joe Taylor?
He was born of Quaker parents In
Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1S43.
He enlisted in the union army at the
breaking out Of the war, and served
with credit to himself and his coun-
try. In 1854 he went to Iowa and this
was the beginning of his romantic ca
reef.
Disappointed in Love.
While on a trapping and hunting
expedition in Iowa he met the daugh-
ter of frontiersman, the infatuation
for whom shaped his destiny. An en-
gagement speedily followed the first
meeting, and Joe started out to win a
home for his bride to be. He went tc
Yankton, then the capital of the ter.
ritory Of Dakota, in 1864 Or 1865, and
having newspaper instinct as well as
good eye for wild game, was backed
by Gen. ]. B. S. Todd, then delegate
to congress, and started a newspaper
the first democratic newspaper in
the territory of Dakota. He endeav
ored to maintain a correspondence
with his sweetheart, but in some way
the letters between them were either
intercepted or lost. Joe finally conclud
ed that either the girl had gone back
on him or the parents had destroyed
his letters, wanting their daughter to
marry some other man, on account o.
his extreme youth. Word finall.
reached him that the girl, the idol o
his soul, had married another man
Broken-hearted and discouraged, h,
took up the trail of the frontiersman
and became wanderer. He followed
the Missouri river and spent severa
years with the Indians. He engage,
in trapping and hunting and was a ia
miliar character with all old-tim,
Steamboat men on the Big Muddy. HI
located at Painted Woods, above Bis
marck, and in 1896, when he wen
back to Iowa to gather some data TO-
a book on frontier life he was abou
to publish, he travelled overland witt
Indian pony and blackboard, taking
with him copies of book he had pub
lished-printed and bound by 1insel
in crude sort Of way-from the sale
of which he met lbs expenses.
On this expedition he again met hi
old sweetheart, but was careful not t,
reveal his identity. He had not see1
her for 81 years, but there still exist
ed that lingering fame that cannot b,
extinguished. Upon his return t,
Washburn, where he has been resid
ing since the town was established
and where he has conducted a small
job printing Office, he wrote the lido
of his youth, and, as friends merely
the correspondence was continued I'm
It'd the death Of the hero OF the TO
nance.
His Relatives.
Mr.. Taylor had four brothers an,
one sister. Maris Taylor, one of tn,
prominent men of Dakota in terrific
rial days, and at one time surveyo,
general, now resident of Belling
ham, Wash, was brother; also vii
liam Taylor and J. B. Taylor, the lat.
ter now resident of Bismarck
sister and brother live back in OK
ford, Iowa.
1t had always been Mr.. Taylor's de
sire TO be buried on the banks of The
4 Missouri river, where he had spent Al
years Of his life, but it seems tina
when he was east about 10 years agt
4 and net his sister and old acquaint
ances of childhood days. he changes