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Cyrus Miller Taylor

Cyrus Miller Taylor

Male 1831 - 1899  (68 years)

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  • Name Cyrus Miller Taylor 
    Born 1831  Ancaster, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3] 
    Gender Male 
    Employer Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    FindAGrave https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112823757 
    Invention , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Lamp boiler 
    • No. 131,712. Peter Harvey Sims, of Waterloo, Canada, assignor to Cyrus Miller Taylor, of the same place, for a " Lamp boiler."

      Claim.'97"1, a lamp boiler, consisting of the metallic chimney B, base A, lamp C, inverted cones H, I, boiler F, and spiral rings Q, G, all constructed, arranged, and operated in the manner and for the purpose set forth. 2, the inverted cone-reflector H, provided with air apertures e, and resting on the upper part of the burner, in combination with the inverted cone 1, resting on the lower rim or the burner, and metallic chimney B and boiler F, as and for the purpose set forth. 3, the spiral wire-rings G, G, hi combination with the metallic chimney Band boiler F, substantially as described."1a

      1aGreat Britian Paten Office, The Commissioners of Patent's Journal. 2 Jul 1872 pg 2431
    Name C. M. Taylor 
    Occupation 1871  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Insurance Agent 
    Residence 1871  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Christadelphian 
    Occupation 1881  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Insurance Manager 
    Residence 1881  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Christadelphian 
    Occupation 1891  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Manager 
    Residence 1891  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Christian 
    Eby ID Number Waterloo-150585 
    Died 14 Sep 1899  Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I150585  Generations
    Last Modified 3 Mar 2025 

    Family Wilhelmina Hacking,   b. 20 Feb 1839, Newmarket, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 May 1893, Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years) 
    Children 
     1. William Taylor,   b. 1858, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Anna Margaret Taylor,   b. 7 Jan 1859, , Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 May 1947, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years)
     3. John Taylor,   b. 1860, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Roland Taylor,   b. 1864, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aug 1952  (Age 88 years)
     5. James Addison "Addison" Taylor,   b. 25 Jan 1869, , Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Aug 1952  (Age 83 years)
    Last Modified 4 Mar 2025 
    Family ID F37693  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Cyrus M. Taylor    		Cyrus M. Taylor
    Taylor,CyrusMiller-001-WaterlooPublicLibrary.jpg    		Taylor,CyrusMiller-001-WaterlooPublicLibrary.jpg
    Cyrus M. Taylor - Photo courtesy of Sun Life Financial Corporate Archives; painting by Phoebe Watson, 1918.

  • Notes 
    • C. M. TAYLOR IS DEAD

      Crossed the Bar This Morning,

      A LEADING FIGURE IN INSURANCE CIRCLES GONE.

      Charles Miller Taylor, the veteran insurance manager, died at his residence in Waterloo this morning at five o'clock, after a long illness. He was 67 years, 11 months and 8 days old. His remains will be interred on Saturday afternoon, Sept at 2 o'clock from the Methodist church, Mr. Taylor was a Christadelphian in religion. He was twice married, His first wife died in May of 1893. In 1895 be married Miss Carrie Roth well, who survives him. Six children also mourn his death. They are: Mrs Byron Bechtel, Waterloo; W H. Taylor of Chicago; John, of Rockland, Pa; Rollie, of Grenfell, Man; Charles, of Buffalo, N,Y., and Addison who is at home.

      Though Mr Taylor had been very ill for some weeks and his death expected, yet the intelligence that he passed away aroused deep regret and sympathy for his family, for he was highly esteemed by all who knew him.

      His death ends along and useful life.

      OBITUARY

      The late C M, Taylor was born in Ancaster, Wentworth County, Ont., in 1831. He came to this county at an early age. From 1858 to 1861 he taught school. Afterwards he was employed in Mr. John Shuh's general store for two years when he started an insurance agency. Mr. Taylor's aspirations soon went beyond the agency business and the starting of a Company was brewing in his mind. In 1863 his ideas and persuasions in regard to the starting of a Fire Insurance Company materialized, and with himself as manager, the Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Company was founded, Mr. Taylor had not been at the head of this new venture long before the plan of Life Insurance on the Mutual system occupied his mind as it did also the minds of a few other Waterloo gentlemen at the time, all being most favorably impressed with the first couple of years success of the "Waterloo." Finally, after thoroughly enquiring into the feasibility of their plans, application was made to the Local Legislature of Ontario for a special act to incorporate The Ontario Mutual Life, Assurance Company. The Act was passed in Dec'r, 1868, incorporating charter members and provisional directors. At a meeting of the provisional board, Mr.
      Taylor was elected Treasurer with the late I E Bowman as President, Moses Springer as Secretary and the late Dr. J W Walden, medical referee, so that in 1869 Mr Taylor saw his second Company a reality. Up to that date the Canada Life Ass. Co., was the only native life Co. doing business in Canada.

      Money and Risks, an Insurance and Finance Journal of Toronto says: - "Mr Taylor justly enjoys the distinction of being the 'father of Insurance' both fire and life, in Western Ontario, and has lived to see the two companies he formed, among the most deserving and prosperous institutions of their kind in Canada'.

      He has been manager of the Waterloo Mutual since its inception, from which position he retired on Sept 1st 1898, having for 35 years most faithfully guided the Company to the front rank among Canadian Insurance companies. At the time of his death he was consulting Manager of the 'Waterloo' and Vice- President of the Ontario Mutual, In the year 1861 Mr. Taylor began to study the views of the Christadelphians and in short time became convinced of the truthfulness of the system of religion taught by them. He gave some time ago the following synopsis of his religious belief: That God, the great first cause, the creator and upholder of all things is a personal being, having a localized habitation in some part of His vast domain, styled Heaven in Scripture. That there is no other being co-eternal or co-equal with Him, That Jesus Christ, the "Son of God" and Son of man" had no existence save in purposes of the Diety until his birth, That on account of his perfect and sinless life, God raised him from the dead. and he became the Prince of Life, to give eternal life to all his faithful brethren. That the Spirit, whose source is God, is an all pervading principle, undefined in its nature but known by its name and operations as follows:-1st. As a creative, life-giving and life-sustaining agency; 2nd, the medium through which God is omnipresent in all parts of this universe; 3rd, the channel through which God has spoken to us by "Holy men of old" and the power in the hands of these men by which they performed miracles in attestation of their divine mission. That these divinely inspired and attested words are the Scriptures of divine truth, and are the only appeal to the intellectual and moral faculties of man to lead him in the "way everlasting." That the angels are a class of real tangible beings, immortal in their nature, whose powers of locomotion are not to be attributed to their possession of wings, but to their immortal nature. That these beings, in their capacity as messengers and representatives of God in carrying out His purposes in His dealings with man, have personated the great Jehovah, "Who dwells in light unapproachable; whom I no man hath seen or can see." That the devil has no personal existence, but is sin personified, and that in the language of Scripture," When a man is tempted he is tempted and drawn away by his own lusts or desires " That man is entirely mortal. That his superiority over all other animals is wholly due to his superior organization and education. That he does not possess an entity with in which survives the death of the body in a conscious state of existence. That his innate longings for a life beyond the grave harmonize with the idea that God is his creator, and that He has revealed a way in which this hungering may be realized. That way is through the belief and obedience of His word, and a resurrection from the dead. That in the interval between death and the resurrection "our life is hid with Christ in God." That there are no rewards or punishments until after the resurrection and judgment. That those will be raised from the dead who have become amenable to the judgment seat of Christ, by the possession of light and knowledge. That the faithful among this class will be rewarded "by this mortal putting on immortality." That the unfaithful will be "beaten with few or many striper, ending in second death." That those who have sinned without law will perish without law and sleep a perpetual sleep. That the Jewish people will be gathered back again to the "mountains of Israel. That the kingdoms of this world will yet become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ That then "the low will proceed from Mount Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem," when Jesus Christ will reign at "Mount Zion on the throne of his father David, before his ancients gloriously." That this earth is the everlasting home of the righteous. That Christ, the "Second Adam," will establish such an order of things as well eventuate in the 'restitution of all things spoken of by all God's holy prophets, since the world began'. That then God's will "will be done on earth as it is done in Heaven" and sin, suffering and death will not exist in the universe of God. Finally, that the belief of "the things concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ" is the be beginning of that path that leads to eternal life.

      New Record, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada Thu, Sep 14, 1899 Page 1

  • Sources 
    1. [S302] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1881, Waterloo Village 1881 Div. 1 Page 6.

    2. [S1573] Census - ON, Waterloo, Waterloo City - 1891, Section 3 Page 16.

    3. [S2658] aaaaWaterloo Village 1871, Sect. 1 Page 31.

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 1831 - Ancaster, Wentworth Co., Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsEmployer - - Waterloo Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsInvention - Lamp boiler - - , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Insurance Agent - 1871 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Christadelphian - 1871 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Insurance Manager - 1881 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Christadelphian - 1881 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsOccupation - Manager - 1891 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - Christian - 1891 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - 14 Sep 1899 - Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Mount Hope Cemetery, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Link to Google Earth
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