New-York tribune., 1921-06-23
Gen. Taylor
Boston Globes
Editor, Is Dead
Publisher Passes Away After
Suffering Two Paralytic
Strokes Within Week
Had Fine War Record
Wrote for The Tribune
He Was in Charge of The
Globe From 1873, When
He Assumed Editorship

BOSTON, June 22-General Charles
Fl. Taylor, for many years editor and
publisher Of The Boston Globe, died
here to-day after a brioc illness. He
was seventy-fve yeara old.
Until recently General Taylor had
been active in the management of The
Globe. Two paralytio strokes within :,
week, however, caused his death.
1t was week ago last Monday eve
ring while taking his customary walk
on Commonwealth avenue with one of
his sons, chat General Taylor suffered
slight shock, which came as the first
warning Of his approaching end AL
though confined to his bed, he insisted
the next day and even through last
Friday upon directing details Of arti-
cles which he wished to have appear
in The Globe.
But, except for successive rallies, he
gradually weakened. His children and
grandchildren came to his home, and
there at 10 o'clock this morning he
died peacefully.
1t fell to the lot of Charles Henry
Taylor to be a soldier as we'll as an
editor, and thus to help make history
as we'll as to record it, He had
chosen his profession and had just
begun working at it, or for it, when
the Civil War called him. Having
been born in Boston on July Il, 1916
he was lad of sixteen years, with a
common school education, setting type
! in the composing room of the old Bos-
ton Traveller when the call of battle
became masterful in his ears.
He served with gallantry under
Banks in Louisiana and elsewhere, as
far as Port Hudson, and that des-
perate engagement in June, 1868, ended
his military career and came perilously
near to ending his life. The bullet
which the surgeons probe failed to
find he carried in his body, somewhere,
all the rest of his life
Becomes Reporter
Still in his teens, but veteran, he
returned to Boston and to the office
of The Traveller, but as q reporter in
stead of q compositor. In that work
he showed himself proficient, as he did
also in that of Boston correspondent
! OF The Tribune, an engagement which
he filled to Horace Greeley's satisfac-
tion for number of years. An inter
ruption of his newspaper career oc-
CURED in 1869, when Governor William
Clafin made him his private secretary
For three years he was with Gov
enor Claf1in as secretary and, with the
rank of lieutenant colonel, on his staff
Then he returned to journalism as
the founder, proprietor and editor of a
magazine, believing that a popular
low-priced periodical of that kind
would be successful. It met with
much favor and had attained circu-
lation of about 10000 copies when the
great Boston fire of November, 1872
reduced its plant to ashes, from which
/ it had no phenixlike revival. Then
he turned back to politics and was
/ elected to the Legislature as repre-
sentative from Somerville, receiving
| the vote of every citizen in the district
In 1873 he was elected clerk of the
House against William H. Robinson, a
veteran writer for The Springfield Re-
| publican.
Takes Charge of The Globe
In the summer of 1873 he was told
by friend that the owners of The
Boston Globe were about to change the
editorial management of that paper
and that he wanted to try for the
place, if Taylor would kindly introduce
him to some of the owners. This Tay-
lor readily agreed to do, since some of
the owners of The Globe were his per-
sonal friends. But when the introduc-
tion and interview occurred Taylor was
surprised and somewhat embarrassed
to have the proprietors say to him
Colonel Taylor, your friend is all
right, and may have a place on the
staff Of The Globe, but you yourself
are the man we want at the head of
| it,"
He reluctantly assented, and in April
1878, at the age of twenty-seven be-
in the managing editors chair the
friend who had "got him into the
mess.' In q short time that friend
showed himself incapable of filing the
place, and Taylor had to assume its
duties himself. He was editor, manag-
ing editor and business manager, all
in one, and he filled all the places SO
well that the owners regarded him as
indispensable. So whea the Legisla-
ture met again, IN JaHuary, 1874, he
told it to look for another clerk; he
would remain with The Globe. For
! several years the paper was conducted
at a heavy loss, of as much as q
| hundred thousand dollars year. But
the owners, among whom was the late
Eben D. Jordan, footed the deficits
ana kept IL gong, until Tayior's edi-
torial genius made il successful.
In 1856 he was married to Miss
Georgiana o. Davis, of Charles
town, Mass, and she bore him three
sons, whom he brought up in his owl
profession. Many years ago the eldest
Charles H. Taylor jr., became his chie1
assistant, while the two younger also
| filled important places on the staff.
| In 1891-'93 he served on the staff OF
Governor William E. Russell, with the
rank of brigadier general. He was first
vice-president of The Associated Press
IN 1905-'06 and again in 1924, and
| in the interval was a member of the
/ board of directors.
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