Taylor’s first sea voyage was to the United States in 1855. In spite of the first sailing ship nearly sinking off Ireland, he returned to Scotland in 1862 and again in 1874, crossing the Atlantic five times in all. On his train travels he visited the Great Exhibition in London in 1851, the Niagara Falls, Washington and saw the ruins of Chicago a few days after the Great Fire in 1871. Family George Taylor had four wives and six children. Three others died at birth. He married: Helen Robson in 1837, died in childbirth in 1839. Jane Dodds in 1842, mother of his six surviving children, died c.1857. Jane Whellans in 1863, died in childbirth in the same year. Susan Carter in 1870, died in 1889. His children were Isabella, Andrew who drowned aged 19, James, Violet, George and John. George Taylor died in Kalamazoo on 21 August 1891. Notes Sources People from the Scottish Borders Scottish emigrants to the United States American gardeners 1803 births 1891 deaths