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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

      N. M. TAYLOR, the oldest lawyer in Sullivan County, was born in
   Carter County, September 23, 1826, the son of SANFORD W. and ELIZABETH
   (DUFFIELD) TAYLOR, the former born in Carter County, the son of Gen.
   NATHANIEL TAYLOR, a native of Rockbridge County, Va., and who became
   a pioneer of Carter County, and served in the war of 1812. He was bre-
   vetted major-general for gallantry in the battle of New Orleans. He was
   a greatgrandfather of the present governor of Tennessee. The father was
   a prominent lawyer, and served in the Legislature. He died October 11,
   1856. The mother was born in Carter County, the daughter of Maj. GEORGE
   W. and SALLIE S. (CARTER) DUFFIELD, the former a Philadelphian, who came
   to Tennessee at an early date, and served in the war of 1812 as a major.
   He was a lawyer, and a territorial judge, but soon resigned and came to
   Carter County. Our subject, one of the eight children, was educated at
   Elizabethton Academy and Washington College. He graduated from the law
   department of Cumberland University. He began practice at Elizabethton,
   and continued until after the war, when in August, 1865, he removed to
   Bristol, where he has been a successful practitioner up to the present.
   October 26, 1869, he married MARY K., a daughter of Dr. C. B. JONES,
   and born in Hanover County, Virginia. One of their five children is
   deceased. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church, of
   which he is an elder.

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