TAYLOR

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The Marin Journal
Thursday, August 10, 1916
Page 6

James I. Taylor Answers Summons

Funeral services for “Jim” Taylor were held Tuesday afternoon at the Masonic Hall in San Rafael and one of Marin county’s most genial and best like citizens was laid in his last resting place.

James I. Taylor, known to his countless friends always as “Jim,” was born in San Francisco in 1856. Much of his early life was spent there with his father, S. P. Taylor and six brothers in the conduct of the S. P. Taylor company. Later the family moved to Marin county to take personal charge of the paper mill at Taylorville, which was the first enterprise of its kind on the Pacific coast. It was at Taylorville in after life that “Jim” Taylor built his reputation for geniality and goodfellowhip. His hotel and summer resort at that place became the mecca for hosts of San Francisco bohemians, and Camp Taylor was famous.

In a financial crises which crushed every paper factory on the coast the Taylor institution was wiped out, and Taylor removed to San Anselmo where he made his home until his death Sunday morning following an illness of nearly a year. He had served a term in the State Legislature.

He was a member of the Masonic and Odd Fellow lodges, a raconteur of note and the possessor of t he art of original and impromptu composition of verse.

He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Jean Margaret Taylor, and four sons, Samuel Penfield and James Irving, in the paper business in San Francisco; Stanley S., manager of the Arleigh Paper Company in Honolulu, and D. Wooster Taylor, Superintendent of the Children’s Playground in San Francisco.

The funeral was under the auspices of the Masonic Lodge and was largely attended. Dr. F. E. Sawyer was in charge.