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About Edward Thornton Tayloe
Edward "Thornton" Tayloe was an American diplomat, planter and scion of colonial tidewater gentry. He was named after his godfather, Edward Thornton a friend and fellow student of his father's at Eton College and His Majesty's ambassador to Washington D.C. He owned estates in King George County, Virginia and the Canebrake. He was the private secretary to Joel Roberts Poinsett during his time as the first minister to Mexico. He married his first cousin, Mary Ogle, at Belair Mansion Prince George's Co., Maryland during Christmas in 1830.
Everything about Edward Thornton Tayloe →- Occupation
- diplomat, meteorological observer, secretary
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- January 21, 1803
- Died
- November 26, 1876