Editing Taneytown, Maryland (section)

==Notable people==
Taneytown was home to Fr. [[Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin]], Catholic priest, missionary, and Russian prince during the late 18th century.

Taneytown was the headquarters of [[Union Army]] General [[George Meade]] for a period during the [[American Civil War]]. Fellow Civil War general [[Jacob Gartner Lauman|Jacob G. Lauman]] was born in Taneytown.

[[United States House of Representatives|Congressman]] [[Joseph A. Goulden]] of [[New York (state)|New York]] was from a family with a house in Taneytown, where he usually stayed during the summer. Goulden was present in Gettysburg when [[Abraham Lincoln]] delivered the [[Gettysburg Address]], and Goulden heard the speech in person.<ref>United National Association of Postal Clerks, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uT02AQAAMAAJ&dq=joseph+goulden+born+1844&pg=RA1-PA86 The Post Office Clerk magazine], Volumes 13-14, June, 1915, page 6</ref><ref>Tyler J. Boone, [https://books.google.com/books?id=IrcrRb87qK0C&dq=%22joseph+a.+goulden%22&pg=PA62 Taneytown], 2004, page 63</ref>

Actor [[Fred Gwynne]], star of TV's ''[[The Munsters]]'', died in Taneytown on July 2, 1993, after he was diagnosed with [[pancreatic cancer]].

Explorer [[Rogers Birnie]] was born in Taneytown in 1851. Shortly after his birth, his family moved to [[Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]].