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Title: John Shackelford Taylor Papers
Accession number: 101
Creator:
Taylor, John Shackelford, 1828-1927
Extent: Number of containers: 2 boxes
Repository:
Sonoma State University Library
North Bay Regional and Special Collections
1801 E. Cotati Avenue
Rohnert Park, California 94928-3609
Language:
English.
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Collection is open for research
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The library can only claim physical ownership of the collection. Users are responsible
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[Identification of item]. John Shackelford Taylor Papers. North Bay Regional and Special Collections, University Library,
Sonoma State University.
John Shackelford Taylor (1828-1927), an original California forty-niner, is
identified with the stock-raising and business development in Sonoma County. In 1853, he settled on 1,400 acres of land near
Santa Rosa. The land included White
Sulpher Springs, a favorite Northern California resort. He also owned a valuable lot on
Fourth Street in Santa Rosa where he erected one of the finest
and most substantial business sections of the city. It was known as the Taylor
block.
Taylor was involved with every movement for the advancement of Sonoma County. He helped found the Santa Rosa Bank and served
a term as
its president. Taylor was also one of the group of men responsible for the construction of the Santa Rosa Race Track.
Correspondence, legal and financial documents, printed material, creative works and ephemera (1850-1948) created and collected
by John Shackelford Taylor document the life of an early Sonoma County pioneer. Legal and financial documents form the largest
portion of the collection. Approximately one third of the collection consists of Taylor's creative works, printed materials
and various documents about pioneer life in the west and in Sonoma County. Correspondence between Taylor and other family
members relate to the genealogy of the Taylor family.