Metallurgist
Centurion, 1904–1930
Born 7 April 1850 in New York (Manhattan), New York
Died 22 February 1930 in Denver, Colorado
Buried Union Hill Cemetery
, East Hampton, Connecticut
Proposed by John Woodruff Simpson and William Crary Brownell
Elected 6 February 1904 at age fifty-three
Archivist’s Note: Brother of Henry Osborn Taylor
Century Memorial
Frank Mansfield Taylor was a typical engineer of the mining West. He began with practical work in the Leadville mines, then served for a space as consulting engineer on mining questions at New York. But the mining country itself and its immediate problems drew him. He was active in Colorado during the desperate period of that state’s silver-mining industry in 1893 and 1894, and during the subsequent great recovery when the gold fields of Colorado were opened up. The wider interests of his adopted city always engaged his energetic participation; for many years he was president of the Denver School Board and of the Denver Museum of Natural History, in both of which enterprises he was something of an autocrat, though giving to them unsparingly of his own time and energies. His fellow-citizens at Denver are likely always to identify him with the present remarkable educational system of the city.
Alexander Dana Noyes
1931 Century Association Yearbook
