She was one of the plural wives of John Taylor, a president of the LDS Church.

[2] She received her education at a young ladies seminary and became a schoolteacher in Westport when she was 18 years old.

[2] She met John Taylor while he was serving as president of the Eastern States mission for the LDS Church.

[2][3] Taylor became secretary of the Salt Lake stake Relief Society upon its organization.

[4] In 1880, when Elmina Shepard Taylor became the first general president of the church's Young Ladies' National Mutual Improvement Association, Margaret Taylor was chosen as the first counselor in the presidency.