THE COLUMBUS CITIZEN, Friday, March 31, 1933, page 2

FACULTY MEMBER DIES 
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PROF. JOSEPH R. TAYLOR

TAYLOR FUNERAL TO BE SATURDAY

Veteran University Professor Succumbs at Age of 64; Taught English.

     Funeral services for Professor Joseph Russell Taylor, veteran member of
Ohio State faculty, will be held at 3 p. m. Saturday at the Green Lawn Ceme-
tery chapel.
     Dr. Thomas H. Campbell will be in charge of the services.  Burial will be
at Green Lawn.  The family has requested the omission of flowers.
     Professor Taylor died at 1 p. m. Thursday at his home, 1080 Lincoln road,
following a serious illness of only a few days.  Death was due to arterio scl-
erosis, resulting from shock suffered in an auto accident a year ago.
     Professor Taylor, known affectionately as "Joey" to several generations
of Ohio State students, was one of the most popular and respected professors
on the campus.

ON STAFF 44 YEARS

     He had been a member of the university's teaching staff for 44 years and
had been a professor of English there since 1908.  He was 64 years old.
     He was born in Circleville on July 10, 1868, and was graduated from Ohio
State in 1887.  He became a member of the faculty in charge of drawing and paint-
ing in 1889, keeping that post until 1894 when he entered the English Department.  
With the exception of one year, 1896-97 at Columbia University, where he receiv-
ed his master's degree, he had taught in the English Department.

AUTHOR OF POETRY

     Professor Taylor was the author of "The Overture," Wintergreen," "What You
Will," "Our Dancing Days" and "The Old Order Changeth," all volumes of poetry,
and "Composition in Narration."
     He also had three books of critical prose published and contributed to Stead-
man and Hutchinson's "Library of American Literature," Columbia Verse, Harper's,
Scribner's, the Atlantic Monthly and other publications.
     In his earlier years he produced numerous water colors of central Ohio scenes.
Among the many friendships he formed with University students, one of the closest
was with George Bellows, late artist, whose early home was in Columbus and who pa-
inted a portrait of him which hangs in the Taylor home.

MEMBER OF PHI BETA KAPPA

     He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern Language Association of America,
the Woodberry Society, the American Association of College Professors and the Uni-
versity Faculty Club, of which he was president in 1931.
     He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Esther Stafford Taylor, a son, Stafford Rus-
sell Taylor, at home; a daughter, Mrs. Diana Taylor France, 1233 Wyandotte road, and 
two sisters, Miss Alice B. Taylor and Miss Mary E. Taylor, both of Columbus.