TAYLOR, Stephen William, educator, born in Adams, Massachusetts, 23 October, 1791; died in Hamilton, New York, 7 January, 1856; He was graduated at Hamilton college, Clinton, New York, in 1817, and became principal of Black River academy at Lowville, New York, which place he filled until 1831. In 1834 he assumed charge of the preparatory department of what is now Madison university at Hamilton, New York, and from 1838 till 1845 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy. He then became one of the founders of a Baptist university at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, of which he was president for five years. From 1851 till his death he was president of Madison university. He was somewhat eccentric, but a man of great executive ability, and during his presidency the last-named institution was brought from a very depressed to a highly prosperous condition. He was the author of a history of the university, and a series of essays on the theory of education, published posthumously.--His son, Benjamin Franklin, author, born in Lowville, Lewis County, New York, 19 July, 1819; died m Cleveland, Ohio, 24 February, 1887, was graduated at Madison university in 1839. A year later he became literary editor of the Chicago " Evening Journal," and during the civil war, 1861-'5, he was its correspondent in the field, following the western armies. His war letters were very picturesque, and many of them : were translated and republished in Europe. The London "Times" called him " the Oliver Goldsmith of America." Mr. Taylor travelled in Mexico and the islands of the Pacific, and was for many years a public lecturer. The University of California gave him the degree of LL.D. His publications in book-form are "Attractions of Language" (New York, 1845); "January and June" (Chicago, 1853); "Pictures in Camp and Field" (1871) ; " The World on Wheels " (1873); "Old-Time Pictures and Sheaves of Rhyme" (1874) ; "Songs of Yesterday" (1877); "Summer Savory, gleaned from Rural Nooks" (1879) ; "Between the Gates," pictures of California life (1881);" Dulce Domum, the Burden of Song " (1884); a complete edition of his poems in a single volume (1887); and "Theophilus Trent. or Old Times in the Oak Openings," a novel (1887). His most successful poems are "The Isle of the Long Ago," "The Old Village Choir," and "Rhymes of the River."