Taylor’s parents were among the Pinellas Peninsula's first pioneers,[2] and he was one of the first residents to be born in the Largo area.

[5] In 1903, Taylor built his citrus packing plant at the corner of Missouri Avenue and Bay Drive in Largo.

He continued the campaign for the separation of the Pinellas Peninsula from Hillsborough County.

He lobbied the Legislature and presided at a rally in Largo where the "Pinellas Declaration of Independence" (written by St. Petersburg Times editor W. L. Straub) was read.

Senator Taylor was a vice-president in the "Bible Crusaders of America" and a strong anti-evolutionist.

[11] Taylor's groves and packing plant were mainstays of Largo's economy during the Great Depression.

Taylor rented space from another packer and built a new plant on Seminole Boulevard at East Bay Drive, where Largo Central Park was built after the plant's demolition.

Taylor suffered a heart attack while making a trip to promote Florida citrus, and died at home a week later in August 1936.