George Elmer Harrison Taylor was born in West Virginia in 1882 and grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. He eventually left Ohio and worked as a barber, coal miner, and part-time vaudeville dancer.
Mr. Taylor served a 10-year sentence in Moundsville, West Virginia. At 5 A.M. On February 21, 1929, Mr. Taylor was transferred from Salem Jail to the Massachusetts State Prison. Authorities executed him by electrocution two weeks later on March 6, 1929. He was 47.
Plot 182: George Elmer Harrison Taylor
