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Mr. William Wallace Taylor Jr., of Baltimore, c1850. Taylor was a dry goods merchant, businessman and banker from a prominent mercantile family. He graduated from Mount Hope College in 1839. In 1850 he became a director of the Merchant's Bank of Baltimore, as his father had been before him, and in 1861 he became Director of the Union Bank of Maryland. He was also linked with the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and many other local businesses. In 1847 he married Catharine Augusta Birckhead, whose family also were strongly connected to the Union Bank of Maryland, her grandfather, Solomon, being one of its incorporators.