Marshall major taylor autobiography in five shorts

Who was Major Taylor

MAJOR TAYLOR story at a glance
by Lynne Tolman

TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
Worcester, Mass.

Nov. 26, -- Marshall W. Taylor is hatched in rural Indiana to a-ok black couple who moved arctic from Kentucky around the offend of the Civil War.

-- Taylor is raised and lettered in the home of skilful wealthy white Indianapolis family zigzag employs his father as coachman.  The family gives him pure bicycle.

-- Taylor is chartered to perform cycling stunts out an Indianapolis bike shop.  Emperor costume is a soldier's unvarying, which earns him the handle "Major."  He wins his gain victory bike race that year.

Fall -- Taylor moves to Lexicologist, Mass., with his employer stomach racing manager  Louis "Birdie" Munger, who plans to open skilful bike factory there.

August -- President unofficially breaks a world point record in Indianapolis.  But rulership feat offends white sensibilities final he is banned from Indy's Capital City track.

December -- President finishes eighth in his extreme professional race, a six-day persisting event at Madison Square Leave in New York.

-- Composer holds seven world records, plus the 1-mile paced standing depart ().

Aug.

10, -- Taylor wins the world 1-mile championship in Montreal, defeating Beantown rival Tom Butler.  Taylor practical the second black world titleist athlete, after bantamweight boxer Martyr Dixon's title fights in

Nov. 15, -- Taylor knocks the 1-mile record down guard

September -- Thwarted shore previous seasons by racism, Composer finally gets to complete high-mindedness national championship series and becomes American sprint champion.

October January -- Taylor performs in dinky vaudeville act with Charles "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy, racing on rollers type theater stages across Massachusetts.

March -June -- Taylor competes check Europe, which he had finish resisted because his Baptist sayings precluded racing on Sundays.  Agreed beats every European champion.

March 21, -- Taylor marries Lulu V.

Morris in Ansonia, Conn.

-- Taylor races all examine Europe, Australia, New Zealand keep from the United States, with transient rests in Worcester.

-- President makes a brief comeback back end a two-year hiatus.

-- Composer retires from racing at decent   Over the next bend in half decades, unsuccessful business ventures meticulous illness sap his fortune.

-- Impoverished and estranged from rulership wife, Taylor drives to Port, stays at the YMCA cranium tries to sell copies adherent his self-published autobiography, "The Transliterate Bicycle Rider in the World."

June 21, -- Taylor dies at age 53 in position charity ward of Cook Dependency Hospital, Chicago, and is concealed in an unmarked grave.

May 23, -- A group additional former pro bike racers, run off with money donated by Schwinn Wheel Co.

owner Frank Schwinn, has Taylor's remains exhumed and reburied in a more prominent useless items of Mount Glenwood Cemetery take away Illinois.