Historical Figure. Born the son of Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Blow in Huntsville, Alabama. In 1830, the Blow family gave up farming and moved to St. Louis, Missouri where they ran an establishment called the Jefferson Hotel. His mother died in 1831, at about which time his father sold a slave he owned, one Dred Scott, to a Dr. John Emerson, an assistant surgeon in the US Army. Taylor attended St. Louis College and married Eliza Wahrendorff in 1843. In 1846, Dred Scott returned to St Louise where he filed a petition in the Circuit Court of St. Louis to gain his freedom from Dr Emerson's widow. Taylor, and his brother Henry, supported the Scott family during the following decade of legal battles. With the financial and legal help of the Blow brothers, a second trial on January 12, 1850, ruled in favor of the Scotts, but in 1852, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the ruling. With the continued help of the Blow family, Dred Scott's case moved through the Missouri courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. When the decision went against Scott, it was arranged that the doctor's widow, now remarried to an anti-slavery lawyer, would transfer ownership of Scott and his family to Taylor if she could collect the Scotts' wages which had been held for eight years, a sum of about $750. On May 26, 1857, Dred Scott and his wife appeared in the Circuit Court of St. Louis where Taylor Blow submitted the documents to emancipate them. After Scott then succumbed to tuberculosis on September 17, 1858, Taylor had him buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery, but when is closed almost a decade later, he purchased a plot in Calvary Cemetery and had Scott reburied there. He then suffered financial reversals, and his friend, Ulysses S. Grant, offered him an appointment after learning of his economic distress, but he declined. He succumbed some two years later, after a long illness, at the age of 49.
Historical Figure. Born the son of Elizabeth Taylor and Peter Blow in Huntsville, Alabama. In 1830, the Blow family gave up farming and moved to St. Louis, Missouri where they ran an establishment called the Jefferson Hotel. His mother died in 1831, at about which time his father sold a slave he owned, one Dred Scott, to a Dr. John Emerson, an assistant surgeon in the US Army. Taylor attended St. Louis College and married Eliza Wahrendorff in 1843. In 1846, Dred Scott returned to St Louise where he filed a petition in the Circuit Court of St. Louis to gain his freedom from Dr Emerson's widow. Taylor, and his brother Henry, supported the Scott family during the following decade of legal battles. With the financial and legal help of the Blow brothers, a second trial on January 12, 1850, ruled in favor of the Scotts, but in 1852, the Missouri Supreme Court reversed the ruling. With the continued help of the Blow family, Dred Scott's case moved through the Missouri courts to the U.S. Supreme Court. When the decision went against Scott, it was arranged that the doctor's widow, now remarried to an anti-slavery lawyer, would transfer ownership of Scott and his family to Taylor if she could collect the Scotts' wages which had been held for eight years, a sum of about $750. On May 26, 1857, Dred Scott and his wife appeared in the Circuit Court of St. Louis where Taylor Blow submitted the documents to emancipate them. After Scott then succumbed to tuberculosis on September 17, 1858, Taylor had him buried in the Wesleyan Cemetery, but when is closed almost a decade later, he purchased a plot in Calvary Cemetery and had Scott reburied there. He then suffered financial reversals, and his friend, Ulysses S. Grant, offered him an appointment after learning of his economic distress, but he declined. He succumbed some two years later, after a long illness, at the age of 49.
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