Taylor Frierson was a native of Florida.  His father, Aaron Taylor Frierson of South Carolina, came to the state around 1846.  His mother, Mary Matilda Wall, was the daughter of Judge Perry G. Wall, one of the first settlers of Hernando County. 

Born in Hernando County in June 1852, Taylor grew up on his father’s farm, attended the local schools and for three years was a student of Maryland Agricultural School in Brooksville. During his lifetime he invested in various enterprises.  One of the first was in sheep and lambs in the country near Tampa. During that time he met Anna Mary Dagenhardt, one of the five daughters of John Henry Dagenhardt and his wife Mary M. Trieleib, residents of the town since 1848.  Taylor and Anna were married in March 1878.

Soon Taylor and Anna moved to Fort Myers.  In a memoir published in The Fort Myers Press in 1931, Mrs. Frierson recounted the “honeymoon trip” on a schooner with two other young brides.  She recalled seeing a  stone cistern left by the soldiers at the old Fort on the Caloosahatchee River.  The young couple had little furniture at first, and used the wood from the packing crates for rough benches. In 1880 Taylor built The Frierson House, a boarding house for winter visitors in the center of Fort Myers. It was Miss Anna who was the anchor there, making sure that the staff was efficient, and creating an atmosphere of warmth and welcome that had much to do with its success. 

Over the years as Taylor would make investments in different locations, Anna would move household and children to be with him. Among his other enterprises were cattle, farming, citrus groves and land speculation. Taylor Frierson was an interpreter of Seminole language and a noted hunter, reported to have killed game all over the southwestern part of the state.  In his later years, Taylor served one term as Treasurer of Lee County and was a member of the School Board.

 
Taylor and Anna had eight children. The eldest, Mary Louise, was born in Tampa in 1879. Henry was born in Fort Myers in 1882 and so were Perry in 1886 and James Edward in 1889. Charlie was born in Buckingham in 1894 and Frederick in Fort Myers in 1896.  Florence was born in Nocatee, Desoto County in 1899.  The last child, Ruth, was born in Homeland, Polk County in 1902.

Taylor Frierson died on March 23, 1925 at his home on Frierson Avenue along the banks of the Caloosahatchee River in North Fort Myers, surrounded by his family.  He is buried, beside his wife, Anna, and their children in the Frierson-Hendry Cemetery in Fort Myers, Florida.