Isaac C. Naylor, Dallas Mayor

Isaac C. Naylor, an attorney, postal clerk, merchant and bookkeeper. He served as mayor of Dallas, Texas from April 1858 to August 1858.

Born in Morgan County, Ohio to Jonathan Naylor and Jane Marshall, Isaac Naylor graduated from Marietta College in Ohio in 1851. Leaving Ohio, he traveled to Texas as a teacher arriving in Lavaca County in 1852. He operated an academy in Galveston, Texas until 1856 and studied law with Sherwood & Goddard there. He was admitted to the bar in 1857.

He moved to Dallas, Texas to practice law. There he joined the Tannehill Lodge No. 52, A. F. and A. M. and served as its secretary. He was elected mayor of Dallas in 1858.

Returning to Galveston, he married Henrietta Wood, daughter of Edward Stout Wood and Ann Outterside on 15 Sept 1858. During the Civil War he left his family in Galveston and moved to California and later New York because his sympathies were with the Union. Isaac Naylor returned to Galveston where he was a clerk, bookkeeper and merchant. In 1876, he was granted a license to practice law in the State of Florida for one year.

He died April 16, 1885 and was interred in City Cemetery, Galveston, Texas.