Taylor (Susie King Baker) is born near Savannah, Georgia.

A former slave, who flees with her family to Union Army lines during the Civil War Susie King Taylor becomes the first African-American Union Army nurse, caring for an all-black army troop in South Carolina. After the war, she becomes a teacher of free black students, moves to Boston in 1875, and after her first husband’s death works as a domestic. She marries Russell Taylor and lives initially at 21 Holyoke Street, then 23 Holyoke Street. King Taylor goes on to write a memoir and becomes active in providing services to veterans and their families. She dies in Boston in 1912.