TAYLOR, Marshall William, clergyman, born in Lexington, Kentucky, 1 July, 1846; died in Louisville, Kentucky, 11 September, 1887. He was the child of free colored parents, was instructed in a school for negroes at Louisville, Kentucky, followed the occupation of a steamboat-cook for three years before the beginning of the civil war, and served as a soldier with the Army of the Cumberland from 1862 till 1865. He became a teacher at Hardinsburg, Kentucky, in 1866, preached at, Litchfield, Kentucky, in 1871, entered the Lexington Methodist conference in 1872, and was stationed at Louisville, Kentucky, Indianapolis, Indiana, and Cincinnati, Ohio. He was presiding elder in Ohio in 1878-'83, preached in Louisville again during the following year, and then went to New Orleans, Louisiana, to assume the editorship of the "Southwestern Christian Advocate." The degree of D.D. was given to him by Central Tennessee college. He published "Handbook for Schools" (Louisville, 1871) ; " Life of Reverend George W. Downing" (1878); several editions of " Plantation Melodies and Revival Songs of the Negroes"; "Life and Travels of Amanda Smith" (1886) ; and " The Negro in Methodism " (1887).