DR. Samuel Burr Taylor came to Kingman, KS. in 1872 in a covered wagon with the intent of setting up his medical practice in Penalosa, KS which is in Kingman Co. He traded horses with a teamster who got drunk, got in a horse race, lost his shirt, came looking for Great Grandpa Samuel Burr Taylor with an oak single tree intending to do him harm. Great Grandpa Samuel Burr Taylor killed him with a knife. I think he was the first legal murder trial in Kingman County. They needed Doctors worse than they needed drunk teamsters and the court ruling was Justifiable Homicide. None the less, it hurt his medical practice. He married Virginia Belle Barnes and had 11 children.
DR. Samuel Burr Taylor came to Kingman, KS. in 1872 in a covered wagon with the intent of setting up his medical practice in Penalosa, KS which is in Kingman Co. He traded horses with a teamster who got drunk, got in a horse race, lost his shirt, came looking for Great Grandpa Samuel Burr Taylor with an oak single tree intending to do him harm. Great Grandpa Samuel Burr Taylor killed him with a knife. I think he was the first legal murder trial in Kingman County. They needed Doctors worse than they needed drunk teamsters and the court ruling was Justifiable Homicide. None the less, it hurt his medical practice. He married Virginia Belle Barnes and had 11 children.
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