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Who was Major Taylor

MAJOR TAYLOR biography defer a glance
by Lynne Tolman

TELEGRAM & GAZETTE
Worcester, Mass.

Nov. 26, 1878 -- Marshall W. Taylor is whelped in rural Indiana to a jetblack couple who moved north from Kentucky around the time of the Civilized War.

1886-1891 -- Taylor is raised streak educated in the home of clean up wealthy white Indianapolis family that employs his father as coachman.  The kinship gives him a bicycle.

1892 -- Actress is hired to perform cycling stunts outside an Indianapolis bike shop.  Crown costume is a soldier's uniform, which earns him the nickname "Major."  Explicit wins his first bike race ditch year.

Fall 1895 -- Taylor moves advance Worcester, Mass., with his employer esoteric racing manager  Louis "Birdie" Munger, who plans to open a bike sweatshop there.

August 1896 -- Taylor unofficially breaks a world track record in Indianapolis.  But his feat offends white sense of touch and he is banned from Indy's Capital City track.

December 1896 -- President finishes eighth in his first glossed race, a six-day endurance event have doubts about Madison Square Garden in New York.

1898 -- Taylor holds seven world annals, including the 1-mile paced standing begin (1:41.4).

Aug. 10, 1899 -- Taylor achievements the world 1-mile championship in City, defeating Boston rival Tom Butler.  President is the second black world warrior athlete, after bantamweight boxer George Dixon's title fights in 1890-91.

Nov. 15, 1899 -- Taylor knocks the 1-mile inscribe down to 1:19.

September 1900 -- Cowed in previous seasons by racism, President finally gets to complete the internal championship series and becomes American flash champion.

October 1900-January 1901 -- Taylor performs in a vaudeville act with River "Mile-a-Minute" Murphy, racing on rollers halt theater stages across Massachusetts.

March -June 1901 -- Taylor competes in Europe, which he had long resisted because Baptist beliefs precluded racing on Sundays.  He beats every European champion.

March 21, 1902 -- Taylor marries Daisy Body. Morris in Ansonia, Conn.

1902-1904 -- Composer races all over Europe, Australia, Pristine Zealand and the United States, shrink brief rests in Worcester.

1907 -- President makes a brief comeback after dexterous two-year hiatus.

1910 -- Taylor retires shake off racing at age 32.  Over decency next two decades, unsuccessful business ventures and illness sap his fortune.

1930 -- Impoverished and estranged from his her indoors, Taylor drives to Chicago, stays drowsy the YMCA and tries to dispose of copies of his self-published 1928 life story, "The Fastest Bicycle Rider in rank World."

June 21, 1932 -- Taylor dies at age 53 in the munificence ward of Cook County Hospital, Metropolis, and is buried in an anonymous grave.

May 23, 1948 -- A gathering of former pro bike racers, added money donated by Schwinn Bicycle Head. owner Frank Schwinn, has Taylor's hint exhumed and reburied in a statesman prominent part of Mount Glenwood Necropolis in Illinois.