Henry Osborn Taylor

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Henry Osborn Taylor

| image = Henry Osborn Taylor (1856–1941).png

| caption =

| office = President of the American Historical Association

| term_start = 1927

| term_end = 1927

| predecessor = Dana Carleton Munro

| successor = James Henry Breasted

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|12|05}}

| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|1941|04|13|1856|12|05}}

| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.

| known_for =

| occupation = Historian and legal scholar

| spouse = Julia Isham

| education = {{ubl|Harvard University|Columbia University}}

}}

Henry Osborn Taylor (December 5, 1856 – April 13, 1941) was an American historian and legal scholar.

Career

Taylor graduated from Harvard University in 1878 and, later, from Columbia Law School. He later received honorary degrees from Harvard and Columbia.

Taylor was a philosopher and the author of several important works on ancient and medieval history.{{cite web |title=Henry Osborn Taylor Biography |url=https://www.historians.org/about-aha-and-membership/aha-history-and-archives/presidential-addresses/henry-osborn-taylor/henry-osborn-taylor-biography |publisher=American Historical Association |access-date=1 May 2019}} He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1926.{{Cite web |title=APS Member History |url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Henry+O.+Taylor&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced |access-date=2023-08-11 |website=search.amphilsoc.org}} In 1927, he served as the president of the American Historical Association.{{cite news |title=Flapper Would Make Dante Speechless So Says Head of American Historians |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31140493/flapper_would_make_dante_speechless_so/ |access-date=1 May 2019 |newspaper=Arizona Daily Star |date=13 Mar 1928 |page=2 |language=en}}

Personal life

Taylor was married to the philanthropist Julia Isham (1866–1939).{{cite news |title=Mrs. H.O. Taylor, City's Benefactor; Wife of Historian and Donor of Isham Park in Upper Manhattan Dies at 73; She Aided Many Causes; Gave Prints to Metropolitan Museum—Had Been Generous to Harvard University |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/03/07/94686312.pdf |access-date=1 May 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=7 March 1939 |page=O27 |url-access=subscription}} Julia, the daughter of prominent merchant William Bradley Isham,{{cite news |title=William B. Isham |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31115492/william_b_isham/ |access-date=30 April 2019 |newspaper=New-York Tribune |date=24 Mar 1909 |page=7 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Latest Dealings in Realty Field; William B. Isham's Residence on East Sixty-first Street Sold by Executors of Estate. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/03/03/100522581.pdf |access-date=2023-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=3 March 1912 |page=R1}} was the sister of historian Charles Bradford Isham{{cite news |title=Charles Isham Dies at 66 |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1919/06/10/97095996.pdf |access-date=2023-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 10, 1919 |language=en |page=15}} (who married Mamie Lincoln, granddaughter of President Abraham Lincoln){{cite news |title=Mrs. Isham Dies; Was Lincoln's Kin; Granddaughter of President a Daughter of Robert Todd Lincoln, Ex-War Secretary; Owned Famous Portrait; Emancipator's Likeness Now to Hang in White House if a Position Suitable Is Found |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/11/22/98211288.pdf |access-date=30 April 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=22 November 1938 |page=24 |url-access=subscription}} and artist Samuel Isham.{{cite news |title=Artist Dies on Golf Links.; Samuel Isham Bursts an Artery at Maidstone Club – His Career. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/06/13/101755247.pdf |access-date=2023-04-27 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=13 June 1914 |page=9}} Julia donated property from her late father's estate, which became Isham Park in Inwood, Manhattan, and gave generously to Harvard and Smith Colleges.{{cite news |title=Will of Mrs. Taylor Aids Two Colleges; Harvard and Smith Get Residue After $100,000 Bequests |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1939/03/12/95763006.pdf |access-date=1 May 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=12 March 1939 |page=59 |url-access=subscription}}{{cite news |title=Harvard Given $642,000 in Will of Julia Taylor |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31136093/harvard_given_642000_in_will_of_julia/ |access-date=1 May 2019 |newspaper=The Boston Globe |date=May 31, 1940 |page=11 |language=en}}

After a week's illness, Taylor died of pneumonia at his home, 135 East 66th Street in New York City on April 13, 1941.{{cite news |title=Dr. Henry O. Taylor Dies, Author, Historian |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/31140231/dr_henry_o_taylor_dies_author/ |access-date=1 May 2019 |newspaper=Hartford Courant |date=April 14, 1941 |page=4 |language=en}} He was buried at Union Hill Cemetery in East Hampton, Connecticut.

Published works

[https://archive.org/stream/privatecorporati00tayl#page/n5/mode/2up A Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Having Capital Stock,] The Banks Law Publishing Co., 1904 [1st Pub. Kay & Brother, 1884].
[https://archive.org/stream/classicalherita05taylgoog#page/n4/mode/2up The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages,] The Columbia University Press, 1901 ([https://archive.org/stream/classicalheritag00taylrich#page/n5/mode/2up 2nd ed.], 1903; [https://archive.org/stream/classicalherita04taylgoog#page/n6/mode/2up 3rd ed.], 1911; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015005777548 4th ed.] New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1957).W. M. Rankin, [https://archive.org/stream/criticalreviewt06salmgoog#page/n64/mode/2up "The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages,"] The Critical Review of Theological & Philosophical Literature, Vol. XI, 1901.
The Emergence of Christian Culture in the West: the Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages, Harper, 1958.
[https://archive.org/stream/mediaevalmindhis01tayliala#page/n5/mode/2up The Mediaeval Mind; a History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages,] [https://archive.org/stream/mediaevalmindhis02tayliala#page/n5/mode/2up 2 Vols], Macmillan Company, 1911.{{cite journal|title=Review of The Mediæval Mind: a History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=iau.31858029268293;view=1up;seq=673|journal=The Athenæum|date=10 June 1911|number=4363|pages=649–650}}
[https://archive.org/stream/ancientidealsstu01tayluoft#page/n7/mode/2up Ancient Ideals; a Study of Intellectual and Spiritual Growth from Early times to the Establishment of Christianity,] [https://archive.org/stream/ancientidealsas04taylgoog#page/n8/mode/2up 2 Vols], The Macmillan Company, 1913 (Reprint., New York: F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1964).
[https://archive.org/stream/deliverancefreei00tayluoft#page/n5/mode/2up Deliverance, the Freeing of the Spirit in the Ancient World,] The Macmillan Company, 1915.
[https://archive.org/stream/prophetspoetsphi00tayluoft#page/n7/mode/2up Prophets, Poets and Philosophers of the Ancient World,] The Macmillan Company, 1919 [1st Pub. 1915].
[https://archive.org/stream/thoughtexpressio01tayl#page/n7/mode/2up Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century,] [https://archive.org/stream/thoughtandexpre01taylgoog#page/n5/mode/2up 2 Vols], Macmillan Company, 1920.
[https://archive.org/stream/greekbiologymedi00tayluoft#page/2/mode/2up Greek Biology and Medicine,] Marshall Jones Company, 1922.
Freedom of the Mind in History, New York, 1923 [Reprint., Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1970].
[https://archive.org/stream/humanvaluesandve007448mbp#page/n9/mode/2up Human Values and Verities,] Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1928.
[https://archive.org/stream/facttheromanceof010705mbp#page/n7/mode/2up Fact: The Romance of Mind,] The Macmillan Company, 1932.
A Layman's View of History, The Macmillan Company, 1935 [Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1978].
A Historian's Creed, Harvard University Press, 1939 (Reprint, Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press, 1969).
[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39076000851589 The Humanism of Italy,] Collier, 1962.
The French Mind, Collier, 1962.

=Articles=

[https://archive.org/stream/magazineamerica00quergoog#page/n764/mode/2up "Development of Constitutional Government in the American Colonies,"] The Magazine of American History, Vol. II, N°. 12, December 1878.
[https://archive.org/stream/internationalqua06newy#page/154/mode/2up "Héloïse,"] The International Quarterly, Vol. VI, 1902/1903.
[https://archive.org/stream/internationalqu00unkngoog#page/n98/mode/2up "The Worlds of Salimbene,"] The International Quarterly, Vol. XII, October 1905/January 1906.
[https://archive.org/stream/yalereview01unkngoog#page/n58/mode/2up "The Wisdom of the Ages,"] The Yale Review, Vol. VII, 1918.
"Modern Civilization," The Saturday Review, November 3, 1928.
"Annals of Culture," The Saturday Review, April 19, 1930.

References

External links

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[https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?acc=off&wc=on&fc=off&group=none&Query=au:%22Henry+Osborn+Taylor%22&si=1 Works by Henry Osborn Taylor], at JSTOR
AHA Presidential Addresses: [http://www.historians.org/info/aha_history/hotaylor.htm#biography A Layman’s View of History]

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