Frederick Taylor (golfer)

Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era . Taylor summed up his efficiency techniques in his 1911 book The Principles of Scientific Management. His pioneering work in applying engineering principles to the work done on the factory floor was instrumental in the creation and development of the branch of engineering that is now known as industrial engineering. Taylor was also an athlete who competed nationally in tennis and golf.

Taylor was born in 1856 to a Quaker family in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Taylors father, Franklin Taylor, a Princetoneducated lawyer, built his wealth on mortgages. Taylors mother, Emily Annette Taylor , was an ardent abolitionist and a coworker with Lucretia Mott. His fathers ancestor, Samuel Taylor, settled in Burlington, New Jersey, in 1677. His mothers ancestor, Edward Winslow, was one of the fifteen original Mayflower Pilgrims who brought servants or children, and one of eight who had the honorable distinction of Mister. Winslow served for many years as the Governor of the Plymouth colony.

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