Horn-u-Copia's Display of Makers

Taylor-Horn

Chicago, Ill

USA

1909 - 1920

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  1871 Leon E. Taylor is born in Pontiac, Michigan


• 
  1874 Charles Stephen Horn is born in Indiana
  


• 1880 Taylor is in school in Grand Rapids, Michigan
  


• 1895 Taylor is working in a brass works in Grand Rapids (likely
  J.W. York as he was the only one there in 1895)
  


• 1900 Horn is a musician in Barrington, Illinois
  


• 1901 Taylor is living in Toronto, Canada
  


• 1902 Horn is a musician now living in Chicago
  


• 1904 Horn marries Lillian Butterfield
  


• 1909 Taylor & Horn is incorporated with $20,000 capital and
  located at #94 Dearborn St., Chicago; Leon Taylor is
  president living at #3531 Cottage and Robert Ellison is
  secretary
  


• 1910 Taylor is granted patent #962,479 for a cornet
  mouthpiece; both Taylor and Horn are living at #3531
  Cottage Grove Ave.; Taylor is listed in the census as the
  owner of a band instrument factory; Horn is listed as a
  band & orchestra musician; the Taylor & Horn business is
  #105 North Canal St., 4th floor (opposite the train station);
  Taylor is president & Horn is treasurer
  


• 1911 Taylor & Horn, #105 N. Canal St., Taylor is treasurer
  


• 1914 Taylor & Horn is listed as a union member in band inst.
  


• 1918 Horn is listed in the WWI draft as a manuf., #173 N. ?;
  Taylor & Horn is listed under a union strike
  


• 1920 Horn is living at #88 Spring Ave in Naperville, Illinois and
  is listed as an owner & manager of a horn factory; Taylor is
  now in Hartford, WI working as an auto factory manager
  


• 1923 Horn is listed as a musician, #6046 S. Park Ave., Chicago
  


• 1930 Taylor is in LA, now an airplane motor inspector
  

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