Charles Fayette Taylor (1827-1899) was born in Williston, Vermont, and died in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of Vermont with a degree in medicine in 1856 and traveled to London, England, to study the Swedish Movement cure under Mathias Roth, the author of the first English book about Swedish massage. Taylor was the first to introduce the Swedish Movement methods to the United States. In the 1850s he opened a hydropathic facility in New York with his brother, George H. Taylor, an American physician and inventor associated with the natural hygiene and physical culture movements. He became a specialist in orthopedics and established the New York Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital in 1866, remaining there as a surgeon until 1876. He created a myriad of orthopedic devices and was the author of numerous medical papers on orthopedic deformities, as well as emotional and mental health illnesses. He published articles on the Swedish Movements in the New York medical journals and authored The Theory and Practice of the Movement-Cure (1861). There is no record of Taylor studying with Mary Baker Eddy or joining The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

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