He was a well-travelled man who journeyed through Scotland , England , Ireland and the United States by rail . He made his first train journey in 1843 to Ayrshire then to the Trossachs where he met and travelled with Newman Hall ( Christopher Newman Hall , known as the Dissenter ’s Bishop , who was a notable English Nonconformist ) . 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
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Great Chicago Fire
George Taylor (gardener)