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WILLIAM M. TAYLOR, M. D.
Vol. 3, p. 1327-1328



More than twelve years of service to a large practice in Oklahoma
City has drawn the career of Dr. William M. Taylor within the fold of
an extensive and emphatic need, giving him an increasing outlet for a
wealth of professional and general usefulness. Doctor Taylor entered
upon the practice of his calling only after a thorough and
comprehensive training, and brought to it also an enthusiasm and
devotion to the best ethics of the science of medicine that have
served to assist him in gaining a high and responsible position.
While his practice has been somewhat general in character, he is best
known as a specialist in the diseases of children, a field in which
he is also prominent as an educator.

Doctor Taylor was born in Lagrange, Oldham County, Kentucky,
September 20, 1872, and is a son of Reuben T. and Mary (RYON) Taylor,
his father being a farmer and stock raiser and a descendant of the
Taylors of Virginia. After attending the public schools of Lagrange,
Oldham County, William M. Taylor became a student in the Kentucky
Wesleyan College, Winchester, Kentucky, being graduated therefrom in
1895 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. His medical course was
pursued at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City, where he
was graduated in 1898 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine, and the
following three years were passed in gaining first-hand experience in
the hospitals of New York, twenty-three months of this period being
spent as resident physician of the New York Infants' Asylum.
Succeeding this, Doctor Taylor went to Louisville, where he engaged
in a general practice for one year, and in 1902 came to Oklahoma City
and established himself in practice at Oklahoma City, where he
maintains an office at Nos. 509-512 State National Bank Building.
Doctor Taylor soon became favorably known in the line of his
specialty, and in 1910, when the medical school of the University of
Oklahoma was established, he was made assistant professor of diseases
of children of that institution, and has continued to retain that
position. He is also a member of the staffs of the Wesley, Saint
Anthony's and University Hospitals, and enjoys a high reputation in
the ranks of his calling. He has a
well-equipped office and appliances for the most delicate and
exacting demands of his profession, has been deservedly successful
both in a material and professional way, and is a necessary adjunct
to the households of many of Oklahoma City's most representative
families. Personally, Doctor Taylor is a man of rare discretion th__
and helpfulness, an earnest an painstaking exponent of the best
tenets of medical science, and an indefatigable student and
investigator. He holds membership in the Oklahoma County and Oklahoma
State Medical societies and the American Medical Association. Doctor
Taylor is well known in Masonry, in which he has attained the thirty-
second degree, passing through the various Scottish Rite bodies to
and including Indian Consistory, No. 2, McAlester, and being a member
of India Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., of Oklahoma City. He belongs also
to the B. P. O. Elks of Oklahoma City, No. 417, the Oklahoma City
Men's Dinner Club, and the Oklahoma City Golf and Country Club. With
his family, he is identified with the First Christian Church of
Oklahoma City.

In 1902 Doctor Taylor was married to Miss Mary C. CAPLINGER,
daughter of D. F. Caplinger, of Campbellsville, Kentucky and to this
union there has been born one daughter: Anna. The family home is
located at No. 925 West Seventeenth Street, Oklahoma City.

Typed for OKGenWeb by Lee Ann Collins, October 27, 1998.