Moses Taylor, V

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Moses Taylor, B.A. 1893.

Born January 30, 1871, in New York City

Died May 26, 1928, at Mount Kisco, N Y

Father, Henry Augustus Coit Taylor (B A Columbia

1861); member of firm of Moses Taylor & Company, sugar

merchants, of New York; trustee of New York Life Insurance

& Trust Company; son of Moses Taylor, the founder of

Moses Taylor & Company and president of the National City

Bank, who frequently gave financial aid to the New York

City and Federal governments (particularly during the Civil

War, when he was a member of the U. S Southern Commission

and an adviser of President Lincoln), and Catherine

(Wilson) Taylor; grandson of Jacob B Taylor, an alderman of

New York City for many years. Mother, Charlotte (Fearing)

Taylor; daughter of Daniel B. Fearing.

Cutler School, New York City. President of University

Club Senior year; Major in the Phelps Battalion; member He

Boule, Psi Upsilon, and Scroll and Key.

Spent the first year after graduation in a trip around the

world; became connected with Lackawanna Iron & Steel

Company 1895, made assistant to the president December,

1897, and elected vice-president May, 1899; elected vicepresident

of Lackawanna Steel Company February, 1902, and

a director the following May, and was acting president 1903-

04, active in the building of the Lackawanna plant at Buffalo

and later on in its development as a factory for war material;

in 1918 made chairman of the board and served in that

capacity until the property was sold to Bethlehem Steel

Corporation in 1922, then elected member of board of directors

of that company and served as such until his death;

member of firm of Kean, Van Cortlandt & Company, bankers,

1905-1910 and of its successor, Kean, Taylor & Company,

1910-1924; president of New York & Queens Gas Company

1913-Apnl, 1928, and director since 1913; vice-president and

director of Franklin Iron Company 1893-1922, of South

Buffalo Railway Company 1900-1921, and of Lake Champlain

& Moriah Railroad Company 1902-1921; director of

Lackawanna Coal & Coke Company 1901-1922 and vicepresident

1902-1922, director of Wither bee-Sherman Company

1902-1922 and vice-president 1919-1922; in 1902 became

an incorporator and director of Westchester & Bronx

Title & Mortgage Guaranty Company (since 1922 the Westchester

Title & Trust Company) and served on executive and

finance committees until his death; elected a vice-president

1906; director of National City Bank 1900-1919, of Stoney

Point Land Company 1900-1924, of Lackawanna Steamship

Company (changed in 1913 to Interlake Steamship Company)

since 1906, and of Cayuga & Susquehanna Railroad Company

since 1921; had also been director of Buffington Water Company,

East Wheatfield Water Company, Ellsworth Coal

Company, Ellsworth Collieries Company, and Lackawanna

Steel Company of New Jersey (all of which were connected

with Lackawanna Steel Company), and of Sloss Sheffield Steel

and Iron Company, and Tilly Foster Iron Mines; trustee of

Consolidated Gas Company of New York since 1908 and

of New York Life Insurance & Trust Company (now Bank of

New York & Trust Company) since 1913; elected member of

hospital corporation and a director of the Moses Taylor Hospitals

in Scran ton and Buffalo March, 1899, president to fill

an unexpired term the next August, and president of the

corporation the following November; in 1916, with his wife and

two others, conveyed to the Moses Taylor Hospital the hospital

property in the town of West Seneca (now the city of

Lackawanna), N. Y.; in 1901, wi th his father and brother, Henry

R. Taylor, built a home for nurses in Scranton in memory of

his mother; an incorporator of Manhattan Maternity Hospital

& Dispensary in New York City in 1905, serving as its

president until his death; charter member of board of directors

of Northern Westchester Hospital Association (Mount Kisco,

N. Y) in 1916 and since then vice-president of the organization;

member of board of managers of Home for Incurables in

Fordham, N. Y., since 1917; president and director of Newport

Casino Theatre Corporation since June, 1927, and director

of Newport Trust Company since August, 1927, during

the war acted in an advisory capacity on financial questions;

member St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Bedford, N Y ,

and Trinity Church, Newport; for many years resided in New

York City and at Annandale Farm, Mount Kisco, but since

1922 had spent most of each summer at Glen Farm, South

Portsmouth, R. I., and the winters in travel abroad

Married August 19, 1896, in Newport, Edith, daughter of

Heber Reginald and Mary (Cunningham) Bishop. Children*

Moses, Jr. (killed in France in 1918), Reginald Bishop, ^-'23;

Francis, '21 S.; Marion, the wife of Langhorne Gibson, '22,

and Edith, the wife of Robert D. Huntington, a graduate of

Annapolis in 1924.

Death due to intestinal trouble Buried in St. Matthew's

Churchyard, Bedford Center. Survived by wife, two sons, two

daughters, five grandchildren, and a sister, the Countess

Harriet Delia Gherardesca, of Florence, Italy.