TAYLOR, Nelson, soldier, born in South Norwalk, Connecticut, 8 June, 1821. He received a common-school education. At the beginning of the war with Mexico he joined the army as captain of the 1st New York volunteers on 1 August, 1846, served through the war, and at its close settled in Stockton, San Joaquin County, California, where he was elected a state senator in 1849 and sheriff in 1855. He was also president of the board of trustees of the State insane asylum from 1850 till 1856. Returning to New York city, he studied law, taking his degree at the Harvard law-school in 1860. He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for congress in 1860. At the beginning of the civil war he entered the volunteer service as colonel of the 72d New York infantry. He commanded this retirement, which formed a part of General Daniel E. Sickles's brigade, during the Chickahominy campaign. He had command of the brigade at Williamsburg and in General John Pope's Virginia campaign, and was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, in recognition of his services, on 7 September, 1862. He resigned on 19 January, 1863, resumed practice in New York city, and was elected as a Democrat to congress, serving from 4 December, 1865, till 3 March, 1867. He was a member of the select committees on freedmen and invalid pensions.