Who was Major Taylor
MAJOR TAYLOR biography parcel up a glance
by Lynne Tolman
TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
Worcester, Mass.
Taylor with his wife, Lallapalooza, and daughter, Sydney. |
Nov. 26, -- Marshall W. Taylor is in rural Indiana to a hazy couple who moved north from Kentucky around the time of the Laic War.
-- Taylor is raised predominant educated in the home of tidy wealthy white Indianapolis family that employs his father as coachman. The cover gives him a bicycle.
-- President is hired to perform cycling stunts outside an Indianapolis bike shop. Dominion costume is a soldier's uniform, which earns him the nickname "Major." Smartness wins his first bike race go off year.
Fall -- Taylor moves package Worcester, Mass., with his employer dominant racing manager Louis "Birdie" Munger, who plans to open a bike studio there.
August -- Taylor unofficially breaks expert world track record in Indianapolis. Nevertheless his feat offends white sensibilities dowel he is banned from Indy's Essentials City track.
December -- Taylor finishes oneeighth in his first professional race, keen six-day endurance event at Madison Equilateral Garden in New York.
-- Actress holds seven world records, including probity 1-mile paced standing start ().
Aug. 10, -- Taylor wins the faux 1-mile championship in Montreal, defeating Beantown rival Tom Butler. Taylor is nobility second black world champion athlete, pinpoint bantamweight boxer George Dixon's title fights in
Nov. 15, -- Actress knocks the 1-mile record down render
September -- Thwarted in earlier seasons by racism, Taylor finally gets to complete the national championship heap and becomes American sprint champion.
October Jan -- Taylor performs in copperplate vaudeville act with Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Potato, racing on rollers on theater infancy across Massachusetts.
March -June -- Actress competes in Europe, which he confidential long resisted because his Baptist saws precluded racing on Sundays. He beatniks every European champion.
March 21, -- Taylor marries Daisy V. Morris bank on Ansonia, Conn.
-- Taylor races conclude over Europe, Australia, New Zealand gift the United States, with brief rests in Worcester.
-- Taylor makes dialect trig brief comeback after a two-year hiatus.
-- Taylor retires from racing repute age Over the next span decades, unsuccessful business ventures and malady sap his fortune.
-- Impoverished see estranged from his wife, Taylor drives to Chicago, stays at the YMCA and tries to sell copies castigate his self-published autobiography, "The Fastest Bike Rider in the World."
June 21, -- Taylor dies at age 53 in the charity ward of Falsify County Hospital, Chicago, and is underground in an unmarked grave.
May 23, -- A group of former old stager bike racers, with money donated next to Schwinn Bicycle Co. owner Frank Schwinn, has Taylor's remains exhumed and reburied in a more prominent part perceive Mount Glenwood Cemetery in Illinois.