Edmund Dick Taylor

Father of the Greenback

(Documented: February 10, 1888 by the 50th United States Congress)

The Originator of Greenback Currency

(The National Magazine, Volume 16. April-November 1892. pp. 209-214,
by Howard Louis Conard. The National History Company, New York.)

      

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Honorable Veteran, Statesmen and Entrepreneur

 
    Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor was born October 18, 1804, in Virginia with the birth name of Edmund Richard Taylor.
    He was the son of Giles Taylor and Sina (Stokes) Taylor. Edmund married Margaret Taylor in Springfield, Illinois.
    She was the daughter of Colonel John Taylor and Elizabeth (Burkhead) Taylor. His passing was December 4, 1891,
    in Chicago, Illinois.
   
    Edmund and Margaret had the following children:
    John Taylor, Charles T. Taylor, Dick Taylor, William W. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Taylor, Hannah T. Taylor
    Ella F. Taylor, Margaret Taylor and five others. Elizabeth married Samuel Snowden Hayes.
   

 

Chronology

   
            1804   Born in Lunenburg, Lunenburg County, Virginia. [Edmund's parents were married July 6, 1786 in this same County.]
            1806   The family moved to Lexington, Kentucky.
            1808   Moved to Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
            1814   In April, they moved to Gallatin County, Illinois and settled in Shawneetown.
         1816-8   About this time he began driving a horse at the salt wells, manufacturing salt.
    [Reference: Urias John Huffman, History of La Salle County, Illinois. p. 967 ]
            1818   December 3, Illinois became the 21st state in the Union [Note]
            1822   At the age of eighteen he went into partnership with Timothy Gard trading with the Native American Indians.
            1823   He began general merchandising with Colonel John Taylor in Springfield, Illinois.
    Edmund took an interest in coal and opened the West End Shaft.
            1827   July 20, Edmund enlisted as a private in Captain Bowling Green's Co. for the Winnebago War, honorably discharged August 27.
    December, Historical Society of Illinois was organized at Vandalia, this was also a library, and the following members:
    Judge James Hall was president, Governor Edward Coles and Chief-Justice William Wilson, vice presidents, James Whitlock-
    Secretary, Robert H. Peebles, Librarian, Representative John Reynolds, Edmund Dick Taylor, William Hubbard Brown,
    Judge James McRoberts, United States Attorney Sidney Breese,  William Thomas, John Mason Peck,
    Judge Richard Montgomery Young, Attorney General Samuel Drake Lockwood, Judge David Jewett Baker,
    William Lee Davidson Ewing, Peter Cartwright and Supreme Court Justice Theophilus Washington Smith.
            1829   September 28, he married Margaret Taylor.
            1830   August 2, elected to the Illinois State House of Representatives.
    Sangamon County had one Senator: Elijah Iles and Representatives, John Dawson,  Edmund D. Taylor,
    Johnathan H. Pugh, and Benjamin Parker.
    December 6, the Seventh General Assembly convened at Vandalia;
            1831   February 16, adjourned.
    June 13, he was commissioned to the rank of colonel during the 'Black Hawk War' by Governor John Reynolds and Adjutant for
    Brigadier General Joseph Duncan, for the Brigade of Mounted Volunteers, Illinois Militia in service of the United States.
    [Note: Staff Officer listed as Richard Taylor, his friends called him "Colonel Dick", a nickname for Richard.]
            1832   August 6, re-elected to the Illinois House of Representatives and defeated Abraham Lincoln.
    At this time Sangamon County had two Senators: Elijah Iles and George Forquer, and four Representatives, Achilles Morris,
    Edmund D. Taylor, John T. Stuart and Peter Cartwright.
    December 3, the Eighth General Assembly convened at Vandalia;
            1833   March 2, adjourned.
            1834   Charles R. Hurst married Ann Taylor, daughter of Colonel John Taylor and later went into partnership with Edmund D. Taylor.
    August 4, elected to the Illinois State Senate, he was also one who supported the removal of State Capital to Springfield.
    Senators from Sangamon County: Edmund D. Taylor [Vice Taylor], George Forquer, and four representatives:
    William Carpenter, John Dawson, John T. Stewart, Abraham Lincoln.
  December 1, the Ninth General Assembly first session convened at Vandalia;
            1835   February 5, adjourned.
    March 4, Edmund was appointed by President Andrew Jackson to Receiver of Public Moneys in Chicago, he accepted the
    appointment and resigned his position in the Senate. During his commission, he sold nearly 400,000 acres.
    June 15, Edmund announced that bills of the Bank of Michigan, Farmers' and Mechanics' Bank of Michigan, all security banks of
    New York State, the banks of Cleveland, and the banks of Cincinnati would be accepted for payment of land.
    Later in the year, the branch of the State Bank of Illinois was established in Chicago, but did not open until January of 1836.
    August 3, a special election was held for the resigned Senate seats of Edmund and George Forquer.
    Job Fletcher and Archer Henderson were elected to fill the vacancies.
    December 7, second session convened at Vandalia and January 18, 1836 adjourned.
            1836   January 16, the Galena & Chicago Union Railroad was incorporated; Edmund was appointed commissioner and director. It
    became the first Railroad built to Chicago.
    Also in January, Chicago branch of State Bank of Illinois was the first bank to open in Chicago, the following were directors:
    John H. Kinzie, Edmund D. Taylor, George W. Dole, Henry B. Clarke, Walter Kimball, Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard,
    Peter Pruyne, Elijah Kent Hubbard and William H. Brown was Cashier.
    December 5, Delegates that were appointed to represent Cook County, met for the Internal Improvements Convention
    at Vandalia, Illinois: Edmund D. Taylor, Theophilus W. Smith, John H. Kinzie, John B. Beaubien, Charles Volney Dyer,
    Walter L Newberry, William Bradshaw Egan, John Blackstone, R. K. Richards, John Dean Caton, Peter Cohen, Giles Spring,
    James M. Strode, H. G. Loomis, L. T. James, E. W. Casey, James H. Collins, Joseph N. Balestier and Henry Moore.
            1837   In January, in reference to the ninth section of the bank charter, Abraham Lincoln in a speech before the Illinois Legislator
    honors the following about their honesty and integrity: Robert K. McLaughlin, Edmund D. Taylor, John Tilson, Daniel Wann,
    John Taylor, A.G. S. Wight, Edward M. Wilson, Robert R. Green, Edward L. Pierson, Aquilla Wren, W. H. Davidson,
    Ezra Baker, Samuel C. Christy, Edmund Roberts, Benjamin Godfrey, Thomas Mather, A. M. Jenkins, W. Linn, W. S. Gilman,
  Charles Prentice, W. F. Thornton, A. H. Buckner,  John C. Riley, and Richard I. Hamilton.
    January 18, Internal Improvement Meeting in Chicago was held at the Russell's Saloon. On motion William H. Brown Esq.,
    was called to the Chair and William Stuart appointed Secretary. On motion Francis Payton Esq., stated the objects of the meeting,
    a committee of five were appointed by the Chair and namely: Colonel Edmund D. Taylor, Captain J. B. F. Russell, Francis Payton
    Esq., John Harris Kinzie Esq., and Joseph N. Balestier Esq. [ Illinois Central Railroad: Cairo to Galena and Chicago.]
    March 4, Chicago incorporated as a city [Note]
    Listed as E. D. Taylor. Esq. on the Board of Trustees for Rush Medical College, and as Edmund Dick Taylor, Esq.
            1838   October 3, he signed a letter in support of Alexander McKenzie to establish a Theater in Chicago. 'Chicago Theater'
            1839   He opened the first Chicago wholesale jobbing house, and named it 'Taylor, Breese & Co.'.
    After serving as U.S. Receiver of Public Moneys in Chicago, Edmund and his family moved back to Springfield, Illinois.
    December, in honor of the opening of Second session to convened at Springfield December 9, a Grand Ball: 'Cotillion Party'
    was planned for December 16, at the American House and the managers were: Edmund D. Taylor, Robert Allen,
    Nicholas H. Ridgely,  John A. McClernand, James Shields, Stephen A. Douglas, F. W. Todd, W. H. Wash, Joshua F. Speed,
    M. Eastman, W. S. Prentice, Jonathan R. Diller, N. E. Whiteside, Ninian Wirt Edwards, E. H. Merriman and Abraham Lincoln.
            1840   August 3, Edmund lost his bid for the Senate seat to Edward Dickinson Baker. The vote count was 2600 to 2009.
            1844   September 23, a correspondence appears on President  James K. Polk's Calendar, from Edmund D. Taylor and William Walters,
    requesting his support for the appointment of William L. D. Ewing of Illinois, to be U.S. charge d'affaires to the republic of Texas.
            1848   In March, construction of the railroad for Galena & Chicago Union Railroad began.
    October 25, the first westbound train departed Chicago and was pulled by a locomotive named 'Pioneer'. [Note]
            1849   Edmund D. Taylor and Thomas Dyer purchased the branch of the Indiana State Bank in Michigan City, Taylor & Dyer
         1853-4   Opened a bank in Chicago, D. Kreigh & Co, also known as Taylor & Kreigh, Edmund D. Taylor and David Kreigh.
            1854   Opposed the 'Kansas-Nebraska Act' [Ref:  The era of the Civil War, 1848-1870. pp.126-133, Arthur Charles Cole, 1919.]
            1856   Advocated the election of  William Henry Bissell to the governorship
  . Edmund sunk a shaft in La Salle County, Illinois with the name of Northern Illinois Coal and Iron Company.
            1857   January 30, listed on the Founding Board of Trustees The University of Chicago, later known as the Old University of Chicago
    February 5, the Chicago Merchants' Exchange company was incorporated by: Edmund D. Taylor, Thomas Hall,
       George Armour, James Peck, John P. Chapin, Walter S. Gurnee, Edward Kendall Rogers, Thomas Richmond, Julian S. Rumsey,
    Samuel B. Pomeroy, Elisha Wadsworth, Walter Loomis Newberry, Hiram Wheeler and George Steele.
                  February 14, The Chicago Savings Institution and Trust Company was incorporated by Edmund D. Taylor, Peter Page,
    Grant Goodrich, Walter Loomis Newberry, Walter S. Gurnee, Charles Harmon, John P. Chapin, Thomas Heale, James Peck,
    Benjamin W. Raymond, Edward Kendall Rogers, Amos G. Throop, William H. Brown, Tuthill King, Philo Carpenter,
    George W. Dole and Edward Ilsley Tinkham.
         1861-5   Opposed 'War between the States', and advocated for peace. He was known as a 'Peace Democrat'
    During the war he served as bearer of dispatches between Washington, D.C. and General Grant's Headquarters in Cairo, Illinois
            1861   June, attended funeral service for his friend Stephen Arnold Douglas.
    In a meeting at General Grants Headquarters, Edmund mentions his idea for greenbacks. [Documented]
            1862   January 16, In a private meeting with President A. Lincoln, Edmund suggested the issuance of greenbacks, also recorded
    with this same date, was the introduction of Edmund: Mr. Taylor to Salmon P. Chase the Secretary of the Treasury. [Documented]
            1863   February 18, at a Convention in Chicago of the coal operators in Illinois, he was appointed chairman and
    Major Joseph Kirkland Secretary, Major Kirkland, Mr. Mason and Mr. Galloway were appointed a committee on resolutions.
    The following signed the resolutions unanimously adopted: Northern Illinois Coal and Iron Company, E. D. Taylor, La Salle.
    Chicago and Carbon Coal Company, Joseph Kirkland, Danville. La Salle Coal Mining Company, J. J. Page, La Salle.
    Kewaunee Coal Company, J. J. Galloway, E. Beadle, Kewaunee. Coal Valley Mining Company, S. S. Guyer, Rock Island
    Morris Coal Mining Company, A. Crumb, Morris. Danville Coal Mine, Doulon and Daniel, Danville.
    Du Quoin Coal Mining Company, C. A. Keyes, Du Quoin. Peru Coal Mining Company, J. J. Page, Peru.
    Morris Coal Company, Thomas Turner, Morris. Washington Coal Mines, Goalby and Bros., Belleville. Telfer Mines,
    A. G. Warren, Morris. Union Mines, A. W. Telfer, Morris. Kingston Coal Company, S. Giltoy, Kingston Mine.
    Peoria Coal Mines, N. Funk, Peoria. Alma Mines, J. Garside, Belleville. Kickapoo Mines, Wm Rutherford, Peoria.
    Carbondale Mines, Kasson and Co., Belleville. Wenona Mines, Thomson and White, Belleville. Eureka Mines, Wm Haight,
    Belleville. Wilson Mines, James Wilson, Belleville. Illinois Central Iron and Coal Mining Company, A. W. Nason, St. Johns.
    Du Quion Centre Mine, F. Priest, Du Quoin. Neelysville Coal Mines, T. Hollowbush, Neelysville.
  June 17, he participated in the celebrated 'Peace Convention' at Springfield.
            1864   Edmund receives a letter from President A. Lincoln, it also acknowledges him the father of the present greenback. [Documented]
            1865   Attended funeral services for his friend President Abraham Lincoln. His letter to Edmund was placed on display at Lincoln's Tomb.
            1867   Attended funeral service for his friend William Hubbard Brown.
            1871   October 8, fourteen stores owned by Edmund were destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire.
            1879   May 27, attended a reception at the Calumet Club and was honored in a speech by John Wentworth.
            1880   August 19, the Old Settlers' Society, five thousand people attended a picnic at the grove, Edmund was one of the orators.
         1887-8   Robert Todd Lincoln returns his father's letter for Edmund to file with his war claim.
    '88 February 10, 50th Congress, 1st Session of the House of Representatives, Report No. 380: ordered to be printed.
    Report by Mr. Lawler aka Frank Lawler from the Committee of War Claims in reference to: for the relief of Edmund Dick Taylor
    Next page is blank. [Note: as of 2010, the online preview on this page was omitted. Q. Why?]
  '88 March 9, 50th Congress, 1st Session of the House of Representatives, Report No. 380: ordered to be reprinted.
    Mr. Lawler's report
    A statement of facts submitted by Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor.
    A handwritten and signed letter he had received from President Abraham Lincoln, [Note: verified with the notation 'President']
    '88 February 2, a signed affidavit from Theo F. Cook in support of Edmund's claim, notarized by R. B. Nixion, Washington, D.C.
    '87 July 4, a letter asking Congress to pass a bill of relief for Col. Edmund D. Taylor to the Senate and House of Representatives,
    and was signed by citizens of the state of Illinois with the following signatures of: John V. Farwell, Robert Todd Lincoln,
    Henry F. Eames, Potter Palmer, W. R. Condiet, Marcus C. Stearns, William H. King, Lemuel Covell Paine Freer, J. Irving Pearee,
    John A. Rice, Augustus E. Walker, John Wentworth, Andrew J. O'Conor, J. W. Rogers, James Goggin, John Roe,
    Alvan Lester Rose, Amos J. Snell, John C. Dore, George L. Dunlop, John Dean Caton, S. Corning Judd, Joseph W. Barker,
    Aaron Gibbs, John B. Drake, C. H. Castle, Frederick Haskell, Silas B. Cobb, Edward F. Pulsifer, H. H. Walker,
    General Hamilton Bogart Dox, H. P. Hammond, John M. Welch, Marshall Field, B. P. Hutchinson, O. A. Bishop, Albert B. Pullman,
    J. D. Gillett, Edmund Lynch, Horace A. Hurlbut, Asa Dow, A. L. Patterson,  James Frederick Joy, William Bross, Jos. Murphy,
    Philip D. Armour, General Robert Williams, U.S.A., George W. Higgins, Joseph Medill, Lyman Trumbull, James R. Doolittle -
    Wisconsin, Murry Nelson, H. L. Weaver - Indiana, D. W. Mitchell, Abner M. Wright, F. W. Hall. (Five pages in this report.)
    [Note: correction made to the above names, as noted errors found from signatures to text:
    Amos I. Snell=Amos J. Snell, Lester A. Rose=Alvan Lester Rose, Hamilton B. Doe=Hamilton B. Dox, F.O.W Yall=F. W. Hall, etc.]
    '88 February 18, a signed letter from General John Alexander McClernand in support of Edmund's claim.
            1890   Colonel George Mandeville Van Buren also placed in print 'President Lincoln's letter to Col. Edmund D. Taylor' p. 404.
    August 11, this book was recorded and stamped by the Library of Congress, Washington D. C. [Note]
    May 27, 51st Congress, 1st Session of the House of Representatives, Report No. 2191 ordered printed.
    [War Claim was resubmitted to the 51st Congress, with errors in names on the memorial letter.]
    William Stone from the Committee of War Claims in reference to: for the relief of Edmund Dick Taylor, declined.
    [Facts needed, as example: A list of supplies, itemized amounts, such as food, clothing, firearms, name of persons or units.]
    Edmund's fourteen stores and records burnt in the Chicago Great fire of 1871.
            1891   December 4, Edmund at the age of eighty-seven died at his daughter's house in Chicago, Illinois.
    December 6, Funeral service was officiated by Rev. Dr. Jesse B. Thomas and assisted by Dr. John C. Burroughs,
    Pallbearers: Marshall Field, Cater Henry Harrison, John Burroughs Drake, Charles Benjamin Farwell, Augustus Harris Burley and
    Robert Law.
   

 

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  and History of Chicago. Taylor, Edmund D., pp. 441, 740.   Edmund D. Taylor, p. 86.
  R. Blanchard and Company, 1881.   Barnard and Miller, Printers, Chicago, Illinois. 1918.
       
  A. H. Worthen, Illinois State Geologist. Economical Geology of   Louis L. Emmerson, Illinois. Office of Secretary of State.
  Illinois, Volume 2. Edmund D. Taylor, p.231.   Blue book of the State of Illinois.
  H. W. Rokker, State Printer and Binder. Springfield, Ill. 1882.   Taylor, Edmund D. pp. 527-528.
      Illinois State Journal Co., State Printers, Illinois. 1919.
  H. S. Drayton, N. Sizer - editors. The Phrenological Journal    
  and Life Illustrated. Volume 76. January to June, 1883.   The Mixer and Server, Volume 28.
  E. D. Taylor, p. 122.   'The Origin of the Greenback' Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor, p.51.
  Fowler and Wells, New York. 1883.   Roessler Brothers, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1919.
       
  Fergus Historical Series, Issues 27-30.   Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, The University of Chicago
  Edmund Dick Taylor, pp. 12, 121.   Biographical Sketches, Volume 1. Colonel E. D. Taylor, p. 49.
  Fergus Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois. 1884.   University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois  1922.
       
  Alfred Theodore Andreas, History of Chicago, Volume 1.   Theodore Calvin Pease, Illinois Election Returns 1818-1848,
  E. D. Taylor, pp. 149, 168, 246, 260, 464-465, 477, 527.   Volume 18. Edmund D. Taylor, pp. 250, 262, 333.
  A. T. Andreas, Publisher. Chicago, Illinois. 1884.   The Trustees of the Illinois State Historical Library, 1923.
       
  Ninian Edwards, E. B. Washburne -editor. The Edward Papers.   Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,
  The Chicago Historical Collections. Volume 3.   Industrial Australasian and Mining Standard: Volumes 87-88.
  E. D. Taylor (Richard), pp. 337, 391, 448, 460, 467, 630.   Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor, p.93.
  Fergus Printing Company, Chicago. 1884.   Critchley Parker, Melbourne, Sydney, London. 1932.
       
  Alfred Theodore Andreas, History of Chicago, Volume 3.   Harry Henson, The Chicago.
  Taylor, Edmund Dick, pp. 35, 396, 816.   Edmund D. Taylor, p. 110.
  The A. T. Andreas Company, Publisher. Chicago, Illinois. 1886.   Farrar and Rinehart, 1942.
       
  History of LaSalle County, Volume 1.   Carter Henry Harrison, Jr., Growing up in Chicago.
  Colonel E. D. Taylor, pp. 229, 245, 451, 715.   Col. Edmund D. Taylor, pp. 37.
  Inter-state Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois. 1886.   R. F. Seymour, 1944.
       
  Fremont O. Bennet, Politics and Politicians: Cook County, and   Archer Hayes Shaw, The Lincoln Encyclopedia,
  Illinois. Memorial Volume, 1787-1887.   Col. E. D. Taylor, pp. 20, 191, 351.
  Col. Edmund D. Taylor, pp. 44, 45.   Macmillan, 1950.
  The Blakely Printing Company, Chicago, Illinois. 1886.    
      Iowa. Division of the State Historic Society, The Palimpsest.
  The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 33.   Volume 41. Edmund D. Taylor, p. 194.
  Colonel E. D. Taylor, p. 861.   Iowa State Historical Department, 1960.
  The Century Co., New York, T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1887.    
      Ellen M. Whitney, The Blackhawk War, 1831-1832, Volume 1.
  Illinois State Bar Association. Proceedings (1877-1888).   Taylor, Edmund Dick (Richard), pp. 54, 669.
  Edmund D. Taylor, p. 50.   Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Illinois. 1970.
  Illinois State Bar Association, Springfield, Illinois. 1888.    
      Ellen M. Whitney, The Blackhawk War, 1831-1832, Volume 2.
  Frank M. Lester, Chicago Securities.   Taylor, Edmund Dick, pp.64, 69-70.
  Edmund Dick Taylor, p. 9.   Illinois State Historical Library, Springfield, Illinois. 1973.
  John W. Strong, Publisher. Chicago, Illinois. 1888.    
       
  United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 2599, Volume 2.   Illinois. Private Laws of the State of Illinois, passed by the 25th
  50th Congress, 1st Session of the House of Representatives.   General Assembly. Volume 2. 'An Act to incorporate the La Salle
  Frank Lawler, Report No. 380. Edmund D. Taylor, 5 pages.   and Chicago Railroad Co.' (1867). E. D. Taylor, p. 728.
  Washington, D.C. (1887-'88), Thomas E. Benedict, Public Printer   Baker, Bailhache & Company, Printers. Springfield, Illinois. 1867.
  United States Government Printing Office, 1888.    
      William Roscoe Thayer, John Hay, American Statesman, Vol. 1.
      Dick Taylor, p. 350.
      Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston and New York. 1915.
       
      John G. Nicolay, John Hay,
      (1864) December Letter to Col. Edmund D. Taylor.
      The Century Co., New York. 1885, 1890.
       
       
        Notes: Snyder, Adam W. and his period in Illinois history, 1817-1842.   Peck, Ebenezor, Reports of Cases Determined in The Supreme
  2nd Revised Edition. [Errata: G. D. Taylor / E. D. Taylor, on page   Court of The State of Illinois. Volume 28. 1860.
  152. Edmund G. Taylor / Edmund D. Taylor, page 153.]   [See page vi for Errata.]

 

[Note: I shall continue to add more as time permits. -Joe]

Information

 Classification:  Non-fiction, history
               Note:  Visitors are welcome to link to this page.
   
Proper Index:  Edmund Dick Taylor,
      Published:  Edmund Dick Taylor, E. D. Taylor, Edmund D. Taylor, Taylor, Edmund D., Dick Taylor.
  [sometimes misspelled as Edmond or Edward]
             Birth:  Edmund Richard Taylor
            Legal:  His legal signature: E. D. Taylor = Edmund Dick Taylor
 
              Note:  Indexing his middle name Dick in quotation marks is inappropriate, disrespectful and offensive.
   1. Dick = Richard, 2. (slang) Dick = detective: investigator, 3. (vulgar).

Reference

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    Always my friend: a history of the State journal-register and Springfield. pp. 16, 31, 33, 41, 46 and 79.
    American Railroad Journal, Volume 6: page 83. (1838).
    Biographical sketches of the leading men of Chicago: (1876)
    Biographical Sketches of some of the early settlers of the city of Chicago, Volumes 1-2. page 44. (1876).
    Blue Book of the State of Illinois: James A. Rose, Secretary of State 1900. pp. 216-218.
    Blue Book of the State of Illinois: James A. Rose, Secretary of State 1909. pp. 254-255.
    Blue Book of the State of Illinois: Harry Woods, Secretary of State 1914. pp. 348-349.
    Blue Book of the State of Illinois: Louis L. Emmerson, Secretary of State 1919. pp. 527-528.
    Charter, constitution, by-laws, membership list, annual report: pages 281-282. (1908).
    Chicago Antiquities: pages 322-327 and 671. (1881).
    Correspondence of James K. Polk: September-December 1844. page 495
    Discovery and conquests of the North-west, with the history of Chicago: pages 431, 740, by Rufus Blanchard, (1881).
    Discovery and conquests of the North-west, with the history of Chicago, Volume1: page 602, by Rufus Blanchard, (1898).
    Early Chicago. Fort Dearborn: page 39. (1881).
    Early Chicago: reception to the settlers of Chicago prior to 1840: pages 46, 47, 51, 53 and 57. (1879).
    Fergus' Historical Series, Issues 1-10: pages 25, 28. (1876).
    Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois: pages 519-520. (1900).
    Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois: pages 519-520. (1907).
    Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois, Volume 2: page 625. (1914)
    History of Chicago, Volume 1: pages 149, 168, 246, 260, 464, 465 and 527. (1884)
    History of Chicago, Volume 3. pages 35, 396 and 816. (1886).
    History of Cook County Illinois, Volume 1: Page 360. (1909)
    History of Kendall County, Illinois: from the earliest discoveries to the present time. page 158. (1877).
    History of La Salle County, Illinois, Volume 1: pages 229, 245 and 715. (1886).
    History of Sangamon County, Illinois: page 439. (1881).
    History of Sangamon County, Illinois: together with sketches of its cities: pages 272 and 280. (1881).
    History of the early settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois: page 707. (1876).
    Illinois, Historical and Statistical, Volume 2: pages 1008-1009. (1892)
    Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 5: pages 414 and 586. (1913).
    Lakeside Classics: pages 134 and 148. (1912).
    Life of Abraham Lincoln. pages 62.
    Magazine of Western History: Volume 16: pp. v, vi, ix, 209-214. [See title page: The National Magazine: Volume 16.]
    McClure's Magazine, Volume 6: page 136. (1896)
    Memorial of the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company: pages 3-4. (1837).
    Newspapers and periodicals of Illinois: 1814-1879. p.322.
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    Reminiscences of early Chicago: page 138. (1912).
    Reminiscences of the early bench and bar of Illinois: pages 316, 420. (1879).
    Reports made to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Illinois, Volume 1-2: pages 76, 240, 242 and 243. (1842).
    Report of South Park Commissioners: page 73. (1897).
    The Bankers Magazine, Volume 2: online page.512 / 780 (1848).
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    The Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, Volume 3: pp. 10, 626.
    The Lincoln year book: containing immortal words of Abraham Lincoln spoken - page 348.
    The National Magazine: Volume 11. E. D. Taylor, pp. 311, 644. (1890)
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    To Colonel E. D. Taylor, not B. D. Taylor]
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    Note: page 122 was omitted from preview, there is a total of five pages in the official and original report.
4 pages   United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 2813, Volume 7. Report No. 2191. online pages: cdxvii, cdxviii, cdxix, cdxx.
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    Yesterday and Today: A History of the Chicago and North-Western Railway System. page 8. (1910)

 

Obituary

            1891   December 5, Chicago Tribune. Col. Edmund Dick Taylor: Father of the Greenback.
    Chicago, Illinois.
    December 5, 6, New York Tribune. "The Father of the Greenback." Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor.
    New York, N.Y.
     December 7, Daily Kentucky New Era. Col. Edmund Dick Taylor: Father of the Greenback.
     Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Volume 4, No. 19.
     December 11, The Miamisburg Bulletin. Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor
     Miamisburg, Ohio. Volume 25, No. 20.
     and other Newspapers

 

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            Notice:   The title: 'Father of the Greenback' is owned by Edmund Dick Taylor, the legal documentation February 10, 1888, proved.
 

 
 

  The Helen Nicolay "Story" about Dick Taylor, an attempt to discredit his claim,  has been debunked.
   
    Q. Who was Helen Nicolay?
    A. Author of fictional stories.

Research and tribute by Joseph Scott Morris.

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    Q. Was Elbridge Spaulding the Father of the Greenback?
    A. No [not the originator of the idea.]
    Q. Was David Taylor the Father of the Greenback?
    A. No [fictional story.]
   

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