TAYLOR, Oliver Swaine, educator, born near New Ipswich, New Hampshire, 17 December, 1784; died in Auburn, New York, 19 April, 1885. He prepared himself for college in the intervals of farm-work, was graduated at Dartmouth in 1809, taught for some time, then studied medicine, received the degree of M. D. from Dartmouth in 1813, and practised till 1817, when he resumed teaching. For a brief period he was associated with Jeremiah Evarts in editing the "Panoplist." In 1826 he took charge of the academy at Homer, New York, and in 1830 removed to Auburn, which has since been his home. He taught there and elsewhere, numbering among his pupils many who attained eminence. He engaged earnestly in Sunday-school work, teaching the prisoners in Auburn penitentiary for seventeen years, and at the age of ninety still conducting three classes each Sunday. He also preached frequently, being licensed on 17 June, 1840, and ordained as an evangelist on 8 December, 1848. His hundredth birthday was publicly celebrated at Auburn.-His son, Charles, missionary, born in Boston, Massachusetts, 15 September, 1819, was educated at the academy of his father and at the University of the city of New York, where he was graduated in 1840. He taught ancient languages in the high-school of the South Carolina conference, and, after joining the conference in 1844, studied medicine in Philadelphia, preparatory to engaging in missionary work in China, obtaining his degree in 1848. He departed for his field of labor the same year, being the first missionary to China that was appointed by the Methodist Episcopal church, south. He returned to the United States in 1854 on account of the failure of his wife's health, became a professor in Spartanburg female college, and in 1857 was its president. In 1858 he was elected general Sunday-school secretary of the Methodist Episcopal church, south, for four years. In 1866 he was elected president of Kentucky Wesleyan college at Millersburg, which post he resigned in 1870, in order to resume the active work of the ministry. The degree of D. D. was conferred on him by the University of the city of New York in 1869. Dr. Taylor, while in China, with the assistance of a native teacher, prepared several tracts, a catechism, and a " Harmony of the Gospels" in the Shanghai dialect. He has published "Five Years in China" (New York, 1860) and "Baptism in a Nutshell" (Nashville, 1874).