Thomas Jefferson Taylor

Thomas Jefferson “Tom” Taylor, a 53-year-old male deputy U.S. marshal, had spent much of his life in service by the time his story converged with the frontier town of Pawnee, Oklahoma, in October 1900. Born in Tennessee in the 1840s, he served as a private in Company K of the 43rd Indiana Infantry during the Civil War before drifting west, eventually settling in what would become Oklahoma. He was appointed a deputy U.S. marshal shortly before the great land rush of April 1889, and over the n ...

Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Jefferson "Tom" Taylor

Thomas Jefferson “T. J.” Taylor (1874-1960) - Find a Grave Memorial