Taylor, George Lansing

D.D. (Syracuse University, N.Y., 1876), Methodist; b. at Skaneateles, N.Y., Feb. 13, 1835; was freshman and sophomore at Ohio Wesley an University, Delaware, O., and junior and senior at Columbia College, New-York City; graduated, 1861; was a istant editor of the Christian Advocate, New York, 1861; entered itinerant ministry of the Methodist-Episcopal Church in New-York East Conference in April, 1862, and has ever since been in its pastorates. Since 1870 a trustee of Syracuse University, N.Y. He served in the Christian Commi ion during the war, in Maryland and Virginia; has always been an ardent temperance laborer, was for years in the National Society's Board, and delivered on the subject many speeches and lectures. He built the Simpson Methodist-Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, N.Y., and the Je e Lee Memorial Church, Ridge field, Conn.; and has preached about a hundred camp meeting sermons. He is the author of Six Centennial Hymns (for the centenary of 1866, pamphlet), New York, 1866; many pamphlets, sermons, speeches, and tracts; many contributions to the religious and secular pre , including several hundred occasional poems and hymns; latest books are, Uly es S. Grant, Conqueror, Patriot, Hero: an Elegy, and other Grant Poems, 1885; Elijah the Reformer, and other Poems, 1885. See Alumni Record of Wesley an University and All i bone.