Matthew Hillsman "Red" Taylor (August 4, 1884 – November 1, 1965) was an attorney and politician, serving as a state representative and Speaker of the House in Tennessee.
[1] His children included Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
While working as an attorney for the West Tennessee Land Company, he was kidnapped in October 1908 along with Quentin Rankin and shot by Night Riders near Reelfoot Lake.
Her father, Robert Love Taylor, was a politician who served three times as governor of Tennessee and as US Senator from the state.
[1] In 1926 Taylor was elected vice president of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company of St. Louis[5] He later returned to Tennessee, working in Memphis.