John R. M. Taylor

John Rodgers Meigs Taylor (13 January 1865 – 31 March 1949)[a] was a captain of the 14th Infantry Regiment of the United States Army.

Taylor returned to the United States in 1901 and was detailed to the Bureau of Insular Affairs where he supervised the filing, selection and translation of a representation of some of the 200,000 documents from that conflict.

They are merely papers which have survived the vicissitudes of warfare and the series must necessarily be incomplete, but they show, to me at least, that Aguinaldo relied much on the opinion and advice of other men; that there was serious opposition to his government even in Luzon; that it had been fully determined to attack the Americans in Manila upon a favorable opportunity, and that in the event of the success of this attack the so-called insurgent government would not have continued even to call itself a republic.

In 1909 a second attempt was made to publish the volumes when President Taft's former secretary James A. LeRoy wrote a scathing critique objecting to its publication.

"The mass of the people of the Philippines--the men who work and have no desire to live from contributions levied upon their neighbors--welcomed the crushing of the Katipunan."

He was named after his uncle Union Army Brevet Major John Rodgers Meigs, who had been killed during the Civil War three months before he was born.