George Edwin Taylor was born in Little Rock, Arkansas to Nathan Taylor and Amanda Hines. When the State of Arkansas passed the Free Negro Expulsion Act in 1859, Amanda Hines took young George to Alton, Illinois. However, Hines became ill, and died of Tuberculosis around 1861. In 1865, at age 8, orphaned George arrived in La Crosse, […]
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