William Henry Tayloe

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William Henry Tayloe
Georgetown, D.C.
NationalityAmerican

William Henry Tayloe (January 29, 1799 – January 7, 1871) was an American

land speculator during the first half of the 19th century. He inherited a vast estate from his father and expanded his holdings, pioneering new territory in the Canebrake region of Alabama
.

Birth and parentage

Tayloe was born on January 29, 1799, at

ninth Governor of Maryland, and great-grandfather was former Provincial governor, Samuel Ogle.[1]

Career

After inheriting

Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia from his father Colonel John Tayloe III, William, through his brother Henry Augustine Tayloe, began acquiring and speculating in land in the Canebrake, founding with his brothers Benjamin Ogle Tayloe and George Plater Tayloe, Faunsdale Plantation and co-owning Adventure Plantation Marengo County, Alabama, later part of Cuba Plantation, Larkin Plantation (Perry County, Alabama) and Oakland Plantation (Marengo County, Alabama).[2][3][4]

After the American Civil War, Tayloe held the mortgage on Belair Mansion (Bowie, Maryland), the home of Dr. George C Ogle (1817 - 1899), son of Benjamin Ogle II and Anna Maria Cooke.[5] The property was sold to the executors of the estate of the mortgage holder William H Tayloe, on May 16, 1871.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Warfield, The Founders of Anne Arundel And Howard Counties, Maryland, 1905, p. 248–250.
  2. ^ "Talbott - Tyree".
  3. ^ A Tale of Two Plantations, Richard S. Dunn, Harvard University Press, November 4, 2014
  4. ^ Alabama Historical Quarterly (Summer, 1930), p. 109; Dubose, "Chronicles of the Canebrake,"
  5. ^ "Dr. Geo. C. Ogle (b. 1817 - d. 1899)." MSA SC 5496-015911 Property owner, Prince George's County, Maryland. https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc5400/sc5496/015900/015911/html/015911bio.html