Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts
Date of Birth: July 27, 1984
Ethnicity: German, English, 1/16th Swedish, Dutch
Taylor Schilling is an American actress. She has German, English, 1/16th Swedish, and Dutch, ancestry, with deep colonial American roots going back to the 1600s.
Taylor’s maternal grandparents are Harry Johnson Miller, an internist and hematologist (the son of Harry Garfield Miller and Harriet Ruth Wildish), and Lucia Fairchild Taylor (the daughter of Warner Taylor and Clara B. Fuller). Harry was born in Iowa, to a German father, Franz Mueller, and a Swedish mother, Selma Karlson/Johanson. Harriet was the daughter of Joseph Everett Wildish and Edith Van Wormer. Clara was the daughter of artists Henry Brown Fuller and Lucia (Fairchild) Fuller, and the granddaughter of painter George Fuller.
Sources: Taylor’s maternal grandfather, Harry Johnson Miller, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Taylor’s maternal grandfather, Harry Johnson Miller – http://www.legacy.com
Genealogy of Taylor’s maternal great-grandmother, Harriet Ruth Wildish – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Taylor’s maternal great-grandmother, Clara B. Fuller (focusing on her own father’s side) – http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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