Early Memories of Saugatuck, Michigan : 1830-1930
Author: Heath, May Francis
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company; Grand Rapids, Mich: 1930

MYRON R. TAYLOR

Rochester, N. Y., was the birthplace of Myron Taylor in 1835. where he spent his early childhood, and when a young

man he went to Waterbury, Conn., where he learned the trade of silversmith and he came to Michigan, settling in Ganges, and there he met and married Delilah Updike whose parents, David and Margaret Updike, came to Ganges in 1845, when she was but one year old and lived on the S. I. B. Hutchinson place on Section 8. These families were worthy people, always willing to lend a hand to the new settler and they met the privation and hard work which fell to the lot of the early pioneer, with courage.

Their relations with the Indians were most friendly and one day when Delilah was a little girl, an Indian with a ring in his nose (known to the settlers as "Ring in the Nose") came to the door and she ran screaming to her mother—but he had come on a mission of trade, exchanging the bundle of deer skins for corn and pork—and he laughed at the little girl, who, however, never forgot the episode.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor lived at the Union House a couple year? around 1868, and kept saw mill men in the boarding house, afterwards returning to Ganges and building the brick house which after that was their home. The chimney in this house was made from brick from the old Prouty tannery.

Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were the parents of eight children, three of whom live today, Philip of Lansing, Pearl, Mrs. Elmer Plummer, of Saugatuck and Myron A. who lives at the "Old Homestead." Deceased are the five eldest, Lincoln, Cora Taylor Gill, Clara Taylor Dawson and Jacob and May who died in infancy. Mr. Taylor died in 1908 and Mrs. Taylor in 1927.