" Julius A. Taylor, a member of the law firm of Taylor and Carroll, began reading law while acting as deputy clerk and master, at the age of seventeen years, and when the war broke out was reading in an office. He stopped his studies and enlisted in the Twenty-first Tennessee Confederate Infantry, with which command he served a year as lieutenant and was then transferred and held the same rank under Gens. Chalmers and Forrest until the cessation of hostilities. He then returned to Memphis and resumed the reading of law, and in 1866 was admitted to the bar. Except a few months he practiced alone until 1878 when the present firm of which he is a member was formed. From January, 1876 , to January, 1882, he was attorney for the county of Shelby. He is one of a family of ten sons and four daughters, of whom four sons and two daughters survive. In 1866 he was married to Miss Margaret Ruffin, a native of Mississippi ... His wife died in 1878, and in 1881 he married Miss Louise Crawford .... Dr. Taylor is a member of the following orders: F&AM, K of P, K of H, and AOUW."
In 1894-1895, Julius A. Taylor served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
" Julius A. Taylor, a member of the law firm of Taylor and Carroll, began reading law while acting as deputy clerk and master, at the age of seventeen years, and when the war broke out was reading in an office. He stopped his studies and enlisted in the Twenty-first Tennessee Confederate Infantry, with which command he served a year as lieutenant and was then transferred and held the same rank under Gens. Chalmers and Forrest until the cessation of hostilities. He then returned to Memphis and resumed the reading of law, and in 1866 was admitted to the bar. Except a few months he practiced alone until 1878 when the present firm of which he is a member was formed. From January, 1876 , to January, 1882, he was attorney for the county of Shelby. He is one of a family of ten sons and four daughters, of whom four sons and two daughters survive. In 1866 he was married to Miss Margaret Ruffin, a native of Mississippi ... His wife died in 1878, and in 1881 he married Miss Louise Crawford .... Dr. Taylor is a member of the following orders: F&AM, K of P, K of H, and AOUW."
In 1894-1895, Julius A. Taylor served as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
Family Members
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Dr Henry Skipwith Taylor Sr
1815–1876
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Dr Arthur Kennon Taylor
1818–1886
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James Henderson Taylor
1820–1867
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Lucy White Taylor Hayes
1821–1903
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Dr William Vannah Taylor Jr
1826–1891
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Emily Sneed Taylor Ledyard
1827–1913
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Col Nathaniel Chapman Taylor
1829–1904
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Capt Archibald Henderson Taylor
1834–1866
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Dr John Lane Henderson Taylor
1836–1880
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Leonard Hamilton Taylor
unknown–1854
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