a Presbyterian divine, was born in 1783, educated privately, graduated at the Theological Seminary of the Associate Reformed Church, New York, in 1813; was licensed to preach by the Monongahela Associate Reformed Presbytery in the same year, and ordained by the same presbytery and installed pastor of the united congregationsῥ at Upper Wheeling and Cadiz in 1814, where he continued to labor until old age. He died Sept. 11, 1865. Dr. Taggart was a man of strong thought." His moral and intellectual attributes were perhaps rarely, if ever, excelled." See Wilson, Presb. Hist. Almanac, 1866, p. 279.