Taylor, Edmond N.

Submitted by Mike Miller

Edmund N. Taylor. As a citizen of Louisiana Edmond N. Taylor has been identified with the lumber and related industries in Iberville Parish at Plaquemine. He is manager of the Schwing Moss Company, Inc., in that locality. This is one of the leading firms in the South handling and preparing for market the Moss product used so extensively in upholstering and mattress manufacture.

Mr. Taylor was born at Eagle Springs, Texas, June 13, 1891. His father, William H. Taylor, a native of Virginia, where he was born in 1846, was reared from boyhood in Texas, married in that state. and for a short time after his marriage lived at Eagle Springs and then removed to San Antonio, Texas, where he is retired. He served two terms, eight years, as county commissioner of Medina County, Texas, is a democrat and a member of the Baptist Church. His wife, Martha Emelia Brown, was born in Texas in 1849. They had a family of seven children: Willie, wife of Charles R. Gaines, a hardware merchant and automobile dealer at Hondo, Texas; Raymond S., a farmer at Hondo; Ella, wife of John S. Harris, a carpenter and builder at Longview, Texas; Mertie, wife of John Nichols, a minister of the Baptist Church in South Carolina; Addie, who married Marvin Walker, a farmer at San Marcos, Texas; G. C., a mechanic at San Antonio, Texas; and Edmond N.

Edmond N. Taylor acquired his early education in the public schools of Texas at Hondo, graduating from high school there in 1906. He spent one year in a well known Baptist College, the William Jewell College, at Liberty, Missouri, for another year was a student in Howard Payne College at Brownwood, Texas, and later spent a session in study at the University of Texas. Completing a business course in the Draughan Business College at Austin, Texas, in the fall of 1910, he had a few months' experience as a stenographer in Fort Worth, and in February, 1911, came to Plaquemine, Louisiana. His first duties here were as stenographer for the Schwing Lumber and Shingle Company, Since 1919 he has been manager of the Schwing Moss Company, inc. The moss factory and offices are situated on the Bayou Plaquemine Road, a mile and a half south of Plaquemine. The company manufactures the native moss so that it is ready for use in making mattresses and in upholstery products, and ships the moss all over the United States, particularly to the northern and eastern markets. Mr. Taylor is a stockholder in the company, and is also a stockholder and director in the Citizens Bank and Trust Company at Plaquemine.

He is a democrat in politics, is affiliated with Acacia Lodge No. 116, Free and Accepted Masons, at Plaquemine, Washington Chapter No. 57, Royal Arch Masons, at Baton Rouge, Plains Commandery, No. 11, Knights Templar, Plaquemine Lodge No. 1398, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He was a volunteer at the time of the World war, joining the colors in December, 1917. He had four months of training in the aviation service at Kelley Field, Texas, and was then transferred to the Wilbur Wright Field at Dayton, Ohio, for four months, and finally was put on duty at Vancouver, Washington, where he remained until honorably discharged January 27, 1919, as sergeant of Aero Squadron No. 12. Mr. Taylor is unmarried.

NOTE: The referenced source contains a black and white photograph of the subject with his/her autograph.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), pp. 263-264, by Henry E. Chambers. Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.