L.C. TAYLOR, M.D.
L.C. Taylor, M.D., Auburn, Illinois, was born in Sangamon county, Illinois, on the 9th day of April. 1854. Son of Ninian R. and Catharine (Halbut) Taylor. Mother, a native of Virginia, and father a native of Illinois, who came to the comity in an early day and located on a farm, which he followed for a number of years. Is at present engaged in the hardware and grocery business, at Williamsville. The Doctor received a good business education, hi 1872, commenced reading medicine, with Dr. J. M. West, of Springfield, where he remained about four years: in the meantime, attended lectures at Rush Medical College, Chicago. In 1874 and 1875, attended Bellevue Medical College, where he graduated. He then returned to Springfield, where he entered into company with Dr. West, and remained one year, when he came to Auburn, where he has followed his profession since. The Doctor is a member of the District Medical Society: also of the I.O.O.F. and Masonic Lodge. No. 354. ["History of Auburn" by the Auburn Historical Society, unknown date, though it is noted that the biography is "as of" 1881]

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Moses Thatcher
Moses Thatcher, who for many years was a prominent citizen of Cache County, was born in Sangamon County, Ill., February 2, 1842, and was only about four years old when Nauvoo was evacuated, his parents crossing the Mississippi into Iowa and in the spring of 1849 going to California. At Auburn, Calif., his father, Hezekiah Thatcher, opened an eating house. Many of the houses in Auburn were made of canvas, iron safes and strong boxes were unknown, and bags of money or gold dust were frequently left with his father for safe keeping, such was the confidence the miners had in the proprietor of the restaurant. While living in Auburn, Moses attended the district school, entering when he was eleven years of age, and made rapid progress with his studies. During the vacation, with an old butcher knife and a common milk pan, he washed gold from the sands and crevices along the American River. He also became an expert horseman and learned how to "rope" calves with the lariat.
In January, 1858, the family came to Utah, settling at Salt Lake City, and in 1860, with his father and others, located in the Cache Valley. In the spring of 1861 he married Miss Lettie Farr, a niece of Lorin Farr and about the same time he became a member of Capt. Thomas E. Ricks' company of "Minute Men," organized for the purpose of defending the settlement against Indian attacks. The Indians called him "Little Chief." While on a mission for the church to Europe he attended the Paris Exposition of 1867, and upon his return to this country he engaged in the mercantile business with his father under the firm name of "Thatcher & Son." He was later superintendent of the Logan branch of the Zion's Co-operative Mercantile Institution, until 1879, and was one of the builders of the Utah Northern Railroad.
Mr. Thatcher was elected a delegate to the constitutional convention of 1895. His health was such that he could not attend all the sessions of the convention, but he was present part of the time and signed the document when it was completed. At the first session of the State Legislature he was one of the minority candidates for the United States Senate, and at the next session was defeated for that office by Joseph L. Rawlins by the narrow margin of one vote. Mr. Thatcher was for many years engaged in the banking business at Logan. His death occurred there on August 21, 1909.
[Source: "Utah since Statehood: historical and biographical", Volume 1; Edited by Noble Warrum; Publ. 1919; Transcribed and submitted by Andrea Stawski Pack.]

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Trumbo Family Bio & Reunion

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