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brought the railroad to the brink of bankruptcy, Taylor obtained control by purchasing its outstanding shares for $ 5 a share. Within seven years the shares became worth $ 240, and the D. L. & W was one of the premier railroads of the country. By 1865 Taylor held 20,000 shares worth almost $ 50
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Henry Augustus Coit Taylor (1841–1921), who married Charlotte Talbot Fearing (1845–1899) in 1868. After her death, he married Josephine Whitney Johnson (1849–1927) in 1903. Taylor left an estate worth $ 50 million upon his death in 1921, just a few months before the death of his nephew Moses Taylor
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sugar growers, found buyers for their product, exchanged currency, and advised and assisted them with their investments. He nurtured relationships with those planters, who relied on him for loans and investments to support their plantations. Taylor never visited Cuba, but his friendship with
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At age 15, Taylor began working at J. D. Brown shippers. He soon moved to a clerk's position in the firm of Gardiner Greene Howland and Samuel Howland's firm G. G. & S. Howland Company of New York, a shipping and import firm that traded with South America.
180:(January 11, 1806 – May 23, 1882) was a 19th-century New York merchant and banker and one of the wealthiest men of that century. At his death, his estate was reported to be worth $ 70 million, or about $ 2.2 billion in today's dollars. He controlled the 318:. Taylor sat in 1871 on a committee made up of New York's most influential and successful businessmen and signed his name to a report that commended Tweed's controller for his honesty and integrity. This report was considered a notorious whitewash. 574: 294:. Taylor's Manhattan Gas Company and New York Gas Light Company were represented 45% of the merged Consolidated Gas, and his descendants remained some the largest individual shareholders of Consolidated Edison. 290:
Taylor also had controlling interest in the largest two of the seven gas companies in Manhattan, which were merged (after his death) to form the Consolidated Gas Company in 1884, eventually becoming
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By 1832, at age 26, Taylor had sufficient wealth to marry, leave the Howland company, and start his own business as a sugar broker. As such he dealt with
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In the 1850s Taylor invested in iron and coal, and began purchasing interest in the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad. When the
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had founded in 1854. After several failed attempts to lay the first transatlantic telegraph cable it was successful in 1866.
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who supported its development from a college into a university and left an estate worth $ 100 million at his death in 1921.
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railroad, and the Moses Taylor & Co. import business, and he held numerous other investments in railroads and industry.
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while concealing Astor's interest. Astor's relationship with the Taylor family provided Moses with an early advantage.
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Through his daughter Albertina, the Pyne family became a dynasty of bankers that survives to this day. Percy's son
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Not noted for philanthropy during his life, at its end in 1882 Taylor donated $ 250,000 to build a hospital in
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Capital City : New York City and the Men Behind America's Rise to Economic Dominance, 1860–1900
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Taylor was married to Catharine Anne Wilson (1810–1892). Together, they were the parents of:
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Taylor held an interest in the New York, Newfoundland, and London Telegraph Company that
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allowed Astor to take over what was then City Bank of New York (today known as
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Taylor was born on January 11, 1806, to Jacob B. Taylor and Martha (
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that already contained members of his family, he was buried in
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brought him into close association with political power broker
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Mary Taylor (1837–1907), who married George Lewis (1833–1888)
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Taylor died in 1882 and although he owned a vault at the
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family which includes the former governor of New Jersey
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Through his daughter Katherine, he was a grandfather of
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President of National City Bank
Gorham A. Worth
Percy Pyne
Moses Taylor Pyne
Hamilton Fish Kean
National City Bank of New York
Citibank
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western
née
John Jacob Astor
real estate
Cuban
Henry Augustus Coit
Spanish

Thomas Nast
Astor
Marshall O. Roberts
Panic of 1837
Citibank
Panic of 1857
Cyrus West Field
Consolidated Edison
Civil War
New York
Boss Tweed
Tammany Hall
Percy Rivington Pyne
Robert Winthrop

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