The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1916-06-06
Their Golden Wedding.

Anson 8. Taylor, United States Com
missioner for the District of Columbia,
and Mrs. Taylor. celebrated, on Monday
Of last week, their GOLDEN wedding an
niversary at their home in Washington.
The celebration was entirely informal,
consisting principally of calls by a host
of friends.
Judge and Mrs. Taylor were both born
in New Jersey, the judge in Burlington
county, Mrs. Taylor in Gloucester coun-
ty, but have spent all their married life
in Washington. Twenty years of Mr..
faylor's boyhood and young manhood
we're spent in Mount Holly, where he
attended Friends school and the West
Jersey Collegiate Institute, working his
way through a two-year course. The
winters of '57, SO, SO and go he taught
school, and during the summer vaca-
lions acquired knowledge of the Fart
preservative"-printing. He worked at
typesetting in the Mount Holly Herald
office in the fall of 81, which he left to
enter the transportation department of
the quartermaster's department in
Washington. In January, 1862. he was
detailed to Gen. McClelIan's headquar-
ters train, serving during the peninsular
and Maryland campaigns.
Going to Washington shortly after the
close of the Maryland campaign Judge
Taylor entered the depotquartermaster' IS
department as captain of the watch. He
was promoted as clerk, assistant super
intendent and superintendent, and as a
clerk was transferred to Lincoln depot, 4"
where he remained until February, 1866,
when he resigned to go into business,
and started the first Temperance gro
Gerry store" in the district. He moved to
the first ward in 1867, where he conduct
ed his Temperance grocery"
Judge Taylor has always taken an
active part in the civic affairs of the dis
trict. In 1868 and 1869 he was a mem
Der Of the common council of the city
government and chairman OF the com
mittee on Improvements. He has been
an officer in every building association
in the West End from 1868 to date. In
1873 he was appointed a justice of the
peace by Gov. Cooke, and he held Office
until 1902, when a new law reducing the
number of justices was passed. In 1876
he was appointed notary public, which
office he still holds. While justice he
studied law at Georgetown University
graduated in 1882 and was admitted tc
the bar. He is United States commits.
sioner, and as such has had the hearing
of some of the most noted cases in the
district. For nine years he was Judge
pro tenn. of the police court.
| Judge Taylor has been active in
church and other religious work. Union
Methodist Episcopal church has had hit
services for more than fifty years, the
Sunday school of which he has beer
secretary for more than forty-five years
The Y. M. c. A., the Washington City
Bible Society, the Methodist Union and
the Christian Endeavor Society have al
had his services. Mr.. Taylor was made
Master Mason in 1863, is r. A. M
and a thirty-second degree Mason of the
Cerneau s. R.; is treasurer of Friend
ship Lodge No. IL, l. o. o. F., which he
joined in 1872. He is also an active
member Of the Army and Navy Union
and the Army and Navy Veterans.
Judge Taylor and Rachel A. Eastlack
were married by her brother, Rev. Cal
vim Eastlack, at Tuckerton, May %
1855. They have had five children, foul
of whom are living. Bessie E. is q
teacher in the public schools. John E
is title attorney for the United States,
Sarah A. is clerk. and Estella L. has
lately become Mrs. Horace w. Johnson.
There are two grandchildren, sons Of
John E. and Beatrice Hotel, his wife.