This biography of one of New Mexico's most distinguished citizens, J. Paul Taylor, recounts the life of the legislator, educator, community leader, and arts patron. J. Paul Taylor was born to a pioneering New Mexico family. Taylor's mother, Margarita Romero y Lopez, was born in 1881 in Romeroville, near Las Vegas, New Mexico, to wealthy traders and merchants on the Santa Fe Trail who were instrumental in the development of Las Vegas as a commercial...