How to Pronounce John Tayloe II
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May 28, 1721 Died on 18 Apr 1779 (aged 57)
American businessman
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About John Tayloe Ii
- Colonel John Tayloe II (28 May 1721 – 18 April 1779) was among the richest plantation owners in colonial Virginia.
- He served in public office including the Virginia Governor's Council, also known as the Virginia Council of State.
- He has been described as a "model Virginia planter, planting tobacco, wheat and corn and raising livestock." A fifth-generation plantation owner from the Tayloe Family of entrepreneurs, he took over the management of the Neabsco Iron Works during the 1740s, likely after his father's death in 1747.
- Subsequently he built Mount Airy, the Neo-Palladian Villa overlooking the Rappahannock River, still inhabited by the Tayloe Family today.
- The Tayloe Family of Richmond County, including John Tayloe II, his father, John Tayloe I, and son, John Tayloe III, exemplified gentry entrepreneurship.
