Leigh A. Taylor
Leigh A. Taylor, clerk in the postoffice at Xenia, was born at Iberia, in Morrow county, this state, September 10, 1872, son of James W. and Mary Jane (Anderson) Taylor, the latter of whom, a native of Pennsylvania, died on December 8, 1886. James Taylor was born at New Athens, in Harrison county, this state, September 28, 1828, and died at the home of Leigh A. Taylor at Xenia, on March 1, 1912.
Reared in Guemsey county, this-state, Leigh A. Taylor received his early schooling in the common schools of that county and supplemented the same by a course at Muskingum College, which institution he attended during the years 1899-1901. Upon leaving college he became engaged in farming in Greene county, on a farm six miles east of Xenia, and was thus engaged for nine years, at the end of which time he became employed in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company at Xenia. For eighteen months Mr. Taylor continued this service and he then, in 1905, was appointed clerk in the postoffice at Xenia, a position he ever since has occupied. Mr. Taylor is a member of the United Presbyterian church and, fraternally, is affiliated with the Modern Woodmen of America.
From History of Greene County Ohio, Its People, Industries and Institutions, vol. 2. M.A.Broadstone, editor. B.F.Bowen & Co., Indianapolis. 1918