THE BOOK OF JOHN The Chronicles of John Arthur Taylor Photo courtesy of Roger Layton THE BOOK OF JOHN The Chronicles of John Arthur Taylor Published privately by 1342 East 2300 North Provo, Utah 84604 ©2021 John Arthur Taylor. All rights reserved. Printing by Book Printers of Utah, Inc. To my three stalwart sons and their wonderful mother ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First to my peerless editor, Tanya Gheen, who read over five hundred pages and corrected thousands of punctuation and syntactical errors. She was a meticulous fact-checker and a demanding tutor. She required that I research and identify original sources of statements or situations I mentioned casually. Without Tanya’s insistence there would be far fewer footnotes. My special thanks to Erin Willder, senior editor, who designed the look of the book and is responsible for the layout, typog- raphy, placement of illustrations, and shepherding my history through publication. Erin was ably assisted by her son Liam with scanning and other tasks. JoAnn Burgi at the Family History Library helped me learn more about scanning and word processing. She also retyped my short history of “The Rise of the Ohio Cincinnati Stake” and the small book, “Memories of Dad” (Addendum). My brother George read many segments of my history and provided valuable suggestions for improvement. James Tanner, sans pareil genealogist provided insight- ful information about the history of FamilySearch. I express my deep- est appreciation for the BYU Family History Library for my almost decade-long service as a senior missionary consultant, where I had an opportunity to research my own family roots, and to write and post articles about long forgotten family members in the appropriate Mem- ory pages. I also appreciate the three years during which I spent six or seven hours each Wednesday typing my history in the incredibly well- equipped Family History Library. Special thanks to Cali O’Connell of the staff of the Harold B. Lee Library who has helped me in so many ways over the years. vii