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Matthew Hillsman Taylor Jr. was born in Trenton, Tennessee, on January 8, 1917, the fourth child of Matthew Hillsman Taylor and Katherine Baird (Taylor) Taylor.
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(Named for his father, the younger Taylor eventually legally adopted his nickname, Peter.) Both Taylor families were prominent, with Taylor’s paternal grandfather, Robert Taylor, having served in the Confederate army during the American Civil War (1861–1865).
His maternal grandfather, also Robert Taylor, was a governor of Tennessee. Peter Taylor spent the years after early childhood first in Nashville, Tennessee, and then in Saint Louis, Missouri, as his father rose from small-town attorney to corporation lawyer to president of an insurance company.
After finishing high school in Memphis, Tennessee, he studied first at Southwestern University in Memphis, then Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and finally Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. He was graduated in 1940.
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