The county was officially organized on January 4 , 1837 , and named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney , the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court , most remembered for later delivering the majority opinion in `` Dred Scott v. Sandford . ''
The county was officially organized on January 4 , 1837 . It was named in honor of Roger Brooke Taney , the fifth Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court , most remembered for later delivering the majority opinion in `` Dred Scott v. Sandford . ''