[1] Allan was married to Helen M. Urenn of Taylorville in 1907; they had two children, Robert M. Jr. and Lois.

A Methodist and a Republican, Taylor was a member of the Jonathan, City, Breakfast, Casa Del Mar, Lakeside, El Caballero and San Pedro Golf clubs.

It was said that Allan's loss that year was partly due to the voters' making a "clean sweep at the City Hall" of the council members allied with political boss Kent Kane Parrot.

Some controversy was aroused in September 1941, long after he had left the board, when he applied for a pension.

He had been hired as a meat inspector on August 4, 1940, but he was discharged by the Board of Health Commissioners fifteen days later because, the board said in a resolution, it appeared that he had been employed "primarily, if not solely, for the purpose of enabling him to be in the employ of the city at a time when he should file an application for a pension."