John E. Taylor died in New York on Saturday from hasty consumption, aged 32 years. The body was brought to Red Bank on Sunday, and the funeral was held from the residence of his mother on Broad street on Monday. The service for the dead was read by the rev. Father M. E. Kane and the interment was made in Calvary cemetery at Fairview. Mr. Taylor had spent fifteen years of his life in the employ of the gas company at Jacksonville, Fla. he came North on a visit to his mother last June, and it is supposed that the change of climate sowed the seeds of the disease from which he died.

Source: Red Bank Register January 19, 1887