Finding aid for the Mary Doan Taylor Family History


Repository: Western Reserve Historical Society
Creator: Taylor, Mary Doan
Title: Mary Doan Taylor Family History
Dates: 1912-1957
Extent: 0.20 linear feet (1 container)
Abstract: Mary Doan Taylor was a Cleveland, Ohio, resident whose ancestors were early Cleveland and East Cleveland settlers. Both Doan's Corners and Doan Brook were named for Nathaniel Doan, an ancestor of Mary Doan Taylor, and the First Presbyterian Church in East Cleveland was founded and supported by the family. The collection consists of the genealogy of the Taylor, Wilder, Doan and Adams ancestors of Mary Doan Taylor, which includes material on the early settlement of the Cleveland area and history of East Cleveland's First Presbyterian Church.
MS Number MS 4394
Location: closed stacks
Language: The records are in English

Biography of the Mary Doan Taylor Family

Mary Doan Taylor compiled a history of her own families, the Taylors, Wilders, Doans, and Adams, during the first half of the twentieth century. Her Taylor ancestry traces back to John Taylor of Windsor, Connecticut, who may have been lost at sea in 1645. Four generations later, in 1834, Henry Taylor (b. 1809) married Polly Wilder, a descendant of Nicholas Wilder who was a military captain in the army of the Earl of Richmond and was given a landed estate by King Henry VII in 1497. The Adams family traces its ancestry to John Adams (1759-17989) of Washington County, Pennsylvania, and to his son Darius (1810-1896) who married Mary Ann Doan (1811-1885) in 1833. Mary Ann was the daughter of Timothy Doan who settled in what is now East Cleveland at the turn of the eighteenth century, near his brother Nathaniel for whom Doan's Corners and Doan's Brook were named. It was Nathaniel Doan who helped to found the First Presbyterian Church in the area and the Doan and Taylor families who continued active participation in this institution.

click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for Nathaniel Doan

click here to view the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History entry for Doan's Corners


Scope and Content

The Mary Doan Taylor Family History, 1912-1957, consist of a two volume manuscript history of the Taylor, Wilder, Doan, and Adams families which includes information not only on genealogy, but also on the early settlement of the Cleveland, Ohio, area and on the history of First Presbyterian Church, also called "Old First."

The collection primarily pertains to the genealogy of the Mary Doan Taylor Family and their early settlement in what became the Cleveland, Ohio, area.


Statement of Arrangement

The collection has been retained in original order and consists of two volumes maintained in four folders.

Restrictions on Access

None.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects:

Adams family.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- Genealogy.
Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
Doan family.
East Cleveland (Ohio) -- History.
East Cleveland (Ohio) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
First Presbyterian Church (East Cleveland, Ohio) -- History.
Taylor family.
Wilder family.

Preferred Citation

[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 4394 Mary Doan Taylor Family History, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio

Acquisition Information

James Woerne, 1982.

Processing Information

Processed by Bari Oyler Stith in 1989.