Henry Augustine Tayloe
| Henry Augustine Tayloe | |
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Henry Augustine Tayloe I, son of John Tayloe III
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April 8, 1808 The Octagon House, Washington, DC, built by John Tayloe III |
| Died | July 15, 1903 (aged 95) Prairieville, Alabama |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Planter |
Henry Augustine Tayloe (April 8, 1808 – July 15, 1903) was an American planter, horse breeder and land speculator during the 19th century. He founded the Fair Grounds Race Course in 1939 with Bernard de Marigny, pioneered cotton planting in the Canebrake (region of Alabama) and built St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. He was the youngest son of John Tayloe III and served as his brother's agents in the Canebrake (region of Alabama) later founding Faunsdale, Alabama.
Tayloe was born on April 8, 1808 at The Octagon House, the city residence built by his father John Tayloe III, who inherited the grand colonial estate Mount Airy, Richmond County, Virginia, built by his father Colonel John Tayloe II, the two of whom were respectively each arguably the wealthiest plantation owners in the country for their generations. His maternal grandfather was Benjamin Ogle, ninth Governor of Maryland, and great-grandfather was former Provincial governor, Samuel Ogle.
The youth called on the Secretary of War, John C. Calhoun, to apply for appointment to a cadetship at the Government Military School, West Point. The Secretary advised the applicant to leave the appointment open to a boy who needed Government aid in his education; he being a son of a rich father. Thereupon he entered the University of Virginia. While he resided in the University a rebellion of the students broke out, in the latter years of Mr. Jefferson's life. He came to meet the students to address them, weeping in his sincere sorrow at the event.
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