Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1910 — ONCE SPECTACULAR RESIDENT OF RENSSELAER IS DEAD. [ARTICLE]

ONCE SPECTACULAR RESIDENT OF RENSSELAER IS DEAD.

Percy Taylor, Well Known Turfman Died March 8d at Fox River Farm, Near Elgin, Illinois. Many of our older people will remember Percy Taylor, a typical Engllsh gentleman, who during the early eighties, resided on the stock farm, and who never appeared on the streets that he was not followed by a number, often as high as seven bob-tailed dogs. He also drove a bob-tailed bay mare. He had an income while here of S3OO a month, which came from his father’s estate in England. He moved from Rensselaer to Chicago and for a number of years was the manager of the steeplechase races at the Harlem and Hawthorne race tracks. It is understood that his English stipend was withdrawn and that in his later years he had a difficult time making both ends meet. For some time he ran a truck farm near Chicago. Later he moved to the farm where he died.