Clay W. Taylor
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Owned Taylor's Ditch. Attorney for the Mountain Copper Company. Elected as Shasta County District Attorney from 1870 until 1882. Taylor Post Office named for him.[1]
1844-1897
Clay Webster Taylor was born on September 10, 1844 in Howell, Michigan. His father was a physician. The family moved to Sacramento, California in 1858, where Master Taylor went to work as a clerk in the store. Over the next few years, he clerked, farmed, mine on the Comstock Lode in Nevada, and attended school in Oakland, California. Following the death of his father in 1865, he moved to Shasta where he studied law and was admitted to the bar.
References
- ↑ Smith, Dottie (1999). The Dictionary of Early Shasta County History (2nd ed.). self-published.
