A native of Laurel, Oregon and a 1930 graduate of Estacada High School, Harold Taylor founded Taylor Electric Supply with a four-person staff more than 30 years ago and now employs 115 people in Southeast Portland. His company sponsors Junior, American Legion, and City League Baseball and Pop Warner Football. The baseball field at Rex Putnam High School is named in his honor.

He was saluted by the Oregonian Banquet of Champions in February for his contributions to youth baseball and softball. Taylor and his wife, Margaret, have a Presidential Scholarship at the University of Oregon and scholarship programs at North Clackamas School District No. 12 and Estacada Union High School District No. 108.