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Died. Melvin Alvah Traylor, 55, Chicago banker and Democrat; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
Seven times since pneumonia laid him low Melvin Traylor collapsed beyond all hope of recovery. Seven times since he took to his bed last month, the Chicago banker rallied to confound his doctors. One morning last week his heart stopped for two minutes. That evening he stirred from coma to whisper: "How tired I am!" At 11 o'clock the doctors called the family. After seven minutes the stout Traylor heart stopped beating for good...
...Traylor could never remember when he was first put to work. At six he was drying dishes in the family home on a Kentucky farm-two log cabins set end-to-end with space between for wash-tubs. At 51 he was in Switzerland helping to organize the Bank for International Settlements. At 18 he was teaching school for $150 a year, working as a grocer's clerk, joining a fire company to get a free bed. At 53 he was making nearly $100,000 a year and had been groomed for the Presidency. At 27 he was manager...
...Traylor got his start in the cattle pens. As a Texas banker he had to be an expert on livestock loans. He learned the subject so thoroughly that his reputation spread to St. Louis and on to Chicago, whither he went in 1914 as vice president of the Live Stock Exchange National Bank. During the War the late James B. Forgan, chairman of First National, was asked by the Federal Reserve to help select a man for the Treasury certificate drive in Chicago. He called for a list of Chicago bank presidents. "There's your man," he said...
...Sept. 25, 1931 a great crowd of farmers collected at Columbia, Ky. to celebrate the Traylor-for-President boom. The wives brought baskets of food, and an old-fashioned dinner was spread at noon under the trees, near the fields where Mel Traylor had spent afternoons plucking tobacco worms. A Bowling Green banker orated: "He reminds us of another man, born just a short distance from here at Hodgenville, whose strange, sad wisdom influenced his nation . . . the world...