The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-11-03
CHARLES E. TAYLOR
CANDIDATE FOR STATE SENATE

the same farm on which his f2tner
was born, the homestead which his
grandfather purchased in the early
forties when he and his family came
down the lakes from New Paynes-
vile, Ohio, which country was at that
time on the very frontier and he and
his boys chopped a farm out of the
primal hardwood forest. His grand
father and his uncles joined the re-
publican party when it was organized
and when it was considered the most
radical thing in the line of political
parties then known. They were what
were called black republicans, being
ardent aholitionists. They voted for
John c. Fremont for president and in
1860 they voted for Lincoln and when
the war broke out, the two of the
uncles who were old enough joined the
colors IN the first call for volun-
teers. During the war the grand
father died, leaving wife with six
or seven small children to care for
and bring up, among whom was Mr.
Taylor's father, with all of the large
sons fighting for the Union Mr.
Taylor's maternal grandfather Joined
the Union army few months before
his mother was born and he did not see
her until she was three years old. His
father pioneered in Colorado in the
seventies, returning home in 1882
when he was married and where he
run the home farm for number of
years when he took his family to
Minneapolis where he resided in the
city and vicinity until 80 when he
went to Aitkin county, Minnesota, in
the hearts of the forest and took up
a homestead. Mr.. TAYLOR got his
early education, what little he got, in
a log school house three miles from
his fathers homestead, to which he
and his brothers and sisters walked,
three months in the fall and two in
the spring. He finished the grades
at the public schools in Aitllin, took
the teachers exanrinaticn and secured
a third grade certificate and taught
backWoods school, forty miles over a
logging road. from the nearest town
near the present site Of McGrath, at
seventeen years of age, and the child
rem Of some Of his pupils are now in
the grades. In the fall Of 1900 he
entered the preparatory school of
Hanaline University, where he COM
pleted his preparatory. course He
then edited a paper at Vesta, Mime
sofa, for q, few months, then went
west, spending a few months at Riv-
erside, California, when he went to
Portland, Oregon, where he was
shipping clerk for about year at
Eilers Piano House. He then went /
to work again at the printing trade
which he he'd learned ON the Aitkin
Age after he had completed his grade +
work at thirteen years, working at
his. apprenticeship for three years be-
fore he started to teach. He worked .
as makeup" on the Astoria Evening
Budget at Astoria, Oregon, leaving /
that job to become manager Of the
Morning Astorian, leaving cI,au lob +
after he had placed that pager on /
a paying basis, when the paper was
sold. He then returned to St. Paul,
where he again entered Ha1aline Uni
versity, working to pay his expenses
as salesman in department stores in
st. Paul, Saturday a~d during vaca- /
tons. al of the schooling that Mr.. u
Taylor secured, he provided for him
self, after leaving the log school house
IN the country. Mr. TavlCr left col f
ege to go with a number Of fellow
students to take hon1ef taafls in Ko0-
county, Minneso a, after the +
railroad was built into the country
from Remidii, in 1907, vyhen that 4
country was wild and wooIv." Dur +
ng E32e time he was h0mesteadinr he /.
laugh school close by and in the fall a
i 1908, he was elected County Judge
While DEMONSTRATING he took a cores
londence course in law, which he com
lieted. In the fall of~19O9 his health {
allied him, and he went to Buffalo. !
Wyoming, TO regain it, where Il was
ligh and dry. In the summer of /
80, he returned to ToochicllinQ coun- "a
Y and that autumn ran for the leris- {
allure on the Government 0Yrers13ip Z
'aEsty ticket, carrying his county by fc
huge majority, but Was@ defeated y
or the election by Charles II War T
eF, new one Of he recognized lead I
rs OF The republican party of that =
tate. The district was then com +
osed of five counties. Mr. Warner /
as been IN the legislature ever since Q
s the district was made smaller and S
ms summer IS candidate for the Q
tate Senate also, from the district 3
of Aitkfn and Carlton coun-
es. When Mr. TAYLOR was learning Il
le printing trade on the Aitkin Age, a
In. Warner was the owner of The Z
aper. Mr.. Taylor, because of sis Il
ealth had to give up his homestead tt
| the north country ard again re- a
rned to Johnson county, Wyoming, d,
here he taught "bada country schools d,
I'd worked on the newspapers until | is
ebruary, 1915, when he returned to el
and became principal of OF
e schools at McGregor, Minnesota, Ii.
here he taught two years, during the E,
eantime he engaged with his broth hs
Bruce in farming until the spring hi
1913, when his brother was called ep
the colors where the cattle and ca
uipment were sold and the farm w:
ated and Mr.. Taylor offered his SER m
es to the Nonpartisan League and la1
S sent in March, 1918, to Plenty ha
cd, Montana, to become editor of tn,
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