• He is the son of John and Leonora Taylor. He initially traveled to the Valley in 1847 and was re-baptized by his father in the Salt Lake Valley on 5 December 1847.  In 1862 he was a returning missionary from England when he again crossed the plains.  Further research is needed to identify the name of the company that he traveled with on that return trip.

Edward Hunter/Joseph Horne Company (1847)

• Age at Departure: 13

Company Unknown (1862)

• Age at Departure: 27
• Returning Missionary

Sources

• Autobiography, circa 1901, in George J. Taylor papers, 1832-1909.
• George J. Taylor in in The Book of the Pioneers Volume 2 (Utah Semi-Centennial Commission, 1897), 260.
• [Hunter-Horne Company, Remarks by Surviving Pioneers], in Utah Semi-Centennial Commission, The book of the pioneers [ca. 1897].
•  Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 21 June 1847, 17.
• Missionary Department Missionary Registers, 1860-1959, Volume 1.
• Notebook in George J. Taylor papers, 1832-1909.
• Taylor, Leonora Cannon Taylor diaries, 1832 and 1846-1847, in George J. Taylor papers, 1832-1909.