"Spokane and the Spokane Country, Pictorial and Biographical, De Luxe
Supplement."  Vol. 1.  Spokane, Chicago, Philadelphia:  The S. J. Clarke
Publishing Company, 1912. p. 229.

JACOB R. TAYLOR

     For more than twenty-eight years the firm of Binkley & Taylor has
maintained a continuous existence, the partners being J. W. Binkley and Jacob R.
Taylor, whose connection with the bar and operations in financial circles have
constituted an important and forceful element in the general growth and
prosperity of Spokane and outlying districts. The birth of Mr. Taylor
occurred in Ontario, Canada, on the 21st of December, 1854, his parents
being George and Margaret (Rymal) Taylor. In pursuing his education he spent
some time as a student of tlie Collegiate Institute at Brantford, Ontario, and
afterward prepared for the bar as a law student in Toronto University. On
crossing the border into the United States he made his way to Denver, Colorado,
where he took the required examination and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He
then came to the northwest, with Seattle as his destination and in that city was
joined by his cousin, J. W. Binkley. After a brief period in Seattle and a short
stay in Tacoma they decided upon Spokane as a favorable location, and opened a
law office, continuing in general practice for a time but later turning their
attention to financial interests, organizing in 1884 the Northwestern & Pacific
Mortgage Company under which name they carried on business until 1890. This was
then taken over by the Northwestern & Pacific Hypotheek Bank and was followed by
the organization of the North Pacific Loan & Trust Company. They deal entirely
in farm and city mortgages and handle foreign capital, mostly from Holland,
having invested more than one million dollars in mortgages in this district.
     Mr. Taylor is a prominent Mason, holding membership in Spokane Lodge, No.
34, F. & A. M.: Spokane Chapter, No. 2, R. A. M.; Cataract Commandery, No. 3, K.
T. He is a thirty-second degree mason in Oriental Consistory, No. 2. Scottish
Rite and belongs to El Katif Temple of the Mystic Shrine. He also has membership
relations with the Spokane Club and the Chamber of Commerce.
    On the 11th of February, 1892, Mr. Taylor was married to Ada I. Martin, a
daughter of Mrs. Jennie Martin, of this city, and they now have three children.
Margaret J., Binkley R. and John R.  They reside at No. 1305 Sixth avenue, where
Mr. Taylor built a pleasant home in 1894. In his business life he has been a
persistent, resolute and energetic worker, possessing strong executive powers,
and added to a progressive spirit, ruled by more than ordinary intelligence and
good judgment, there has been a native justice which has expressed itself in
correct principle and practice.
 
     
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