To trap that badger fierce and sly,
Or cage the kangarooster.
The late A. J. Taylor and some of his intimate personal and business friends
Top row—The Late John Strachan, Erie Railroad, Toronto; H. G. McMicken, European Agent, G.N.R., London, Eng.; Wm. Askin, Auditor, Northern Navigation Co., Sarnia; The Late J. D. Hunter, Allan Line, Toronto.
Bottom row—J. J. Rose, G.A., U.P.R., Toronto; B. H. Bennett, G.A., C. & N.W.R., Toronto; P. G. Van Vleet, Publisher, Toronto; J. R. Steele, Freight Claims Auditor, C.P.R.; F. J. Glackmeyer, Sergeant-at-arms, Ontario Government; W. Smith, Inspector of Post Offices, Toronto; W. Jackson, President, Jackson Mfg. Co., G.T.A., C.P.R., Clinton, Ont.; W. H. Clancy, Ex-C.P. & T.A., G.T.R., Montreal, Que.
ANDREW J. TAYLOR
Lines to the memory of a good friend and business associate
If inscrutable destiny or the influence of circumstance had not planned for Andrew J. Taylor the career of a widely known railway man, it may be stated without relying on too elastic imagination that he could have qualified to an advance degree as a beloved Presbyteriann “dominie” or Catholic priest. His admirable character attracted unusual and unsolicited confidences, to human anxieties his sound sympathetic counsel applied the encouragement and comfort of a confessor and he was never without a loose shilling for the needy. Coupled with these attributes he possessed a moral and superior mental fabric and when you learn that his forebears came from a canny nook in Scotland it will explain and account for his quiet appreciation of honor and duty.
Lesmahagow or Abbey Green, on the River Nethan, Lanarkshire, was the birthplace of his father, James Mitchell Taylor, who brought his ruddy cheeked bride from the English-speaking settlement of L’Original to Ottawa. Her father succumbed to wounds received in the battle of the Wind Mill and both her military grandfathers were killed in the battle of Waterloo. In Bytown the subject of this sketch was born June 24th, 1858, and spent his childhood with four brothers and four sisters, securing his education in the private schools which predominated in those days and in the world of experience and travel.