Horatio Theodore Taylor (June 13, 1827 – April 27, 1905) was an American merchant, salesman, and Wisconsin pioneer.

[1] When he was just 14 years old, in 1841, he traveled west to the Wisconsin Territory and went to work as a salesman for Lee & Dickson, the first mercantile house in Racine.

[1] After a period of poor health, Taylor went to live at the home of his daughter, Ida Dyer, in Winnetka, Illinois.

[1] His paternal grandfather, William Taylor, served in the Rhode Island militia through seven years of the American Revolutionary War, and participated in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

[5] He married Maria Campbell, the daughter of another Wisconsin pioneer, on November 28, 1850.