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Percy Rivington Pyne I

Percy Rivington Pyne I

American businessman (1820–1895)

Percy Rivington Pyne I (March 8, 1820 – February 14, 1895) was a migrant from England to the United States. He was president of City National Bank, a director of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, and a director of the New Jersey Zinc Company.

For other people with the same name, see Percy Rivington Pyne (disambiguation).
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Early life

Percy Rivington Payne was born in England on March 8, 1820, to Anna Rivington and Thomas Pyne.[1] He was a collateral descendant of James Rivington, famed Loyalist publisher in New York during the American Revolution.

Pyne was educated at Christ's Hospital boarding school in West Sussex before emigrating to the United States in 1835.[1]

Career

Upon arriving in the United States, Pyne joined his father-in-laws business Moses Taylor & Co. as a clerk, becoming a partner in 1842.[1] Moses Taylor & Co. specialized in the importation and sale of sugar, focusing on the Cuban trade. Pyne managed the sugar business while Taylor expanded the company into finance, iron, coal and railroads.

After the death of his father-in-law in 1882, Pyne became president of National City Bank, which was founded by Taylor in 1865, serving in that role until 1891 when he was succeeded by James Stillman.

Personal life

In 1855 he married Taylor's daughter Albertina.[1] Their children included two sons and a daughter:

Pyne died in Rome, Italy on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1895.[1]

Descendants

Through his son Percy, he was a grandfather of Grafton Howland Pyne (1890–1935);[4] Herbert Rivington Pyne (1892–1952),[5] who married Florence Ledyard Blair (daughter of banker C. Ledyard Blair);[6] Mary Percy Pyne (b. 1893), who married Oliver Dwight Filley (a grandson of Oliver Filley and cousin of Dwight F. Davis);[7][8][9] Percy Rivington Pyne Jr. (1896–1941), a flier with the 103rd Aero Squadron during World War I;[10] and Meredith Howland Pyne (b. 1898).[11]

References

  1. [1]
    "Percy Rivington Pyne". The New York Times. February 16, 1895. Retrieved July 13, 2016.
  2. [2]
    "MRS. M. TAYLOR PYNE, WIDOW OF FINANCIER; Daughter of General Stockton of Princeton Dies at 82" (PDF). The New York Times. April 23, 1939. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  3. [3]
    Reynolds, Cuyler. Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3 (1914), pp. 1413–14.
  4. [4]
    "GRAFTON H. PYNE.; Former Member of New York Stock Exchange and Financier" (PDF). The New York Times. October 9, 1935. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  5. [5]
    "Deaths | PYNE" (PDF). The New York Times. March 25, 1952. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  6. [6]
    Schleicher, William A.; Winter, Susan (1997). In the Somerset Hills: The Landed Gentry. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7524-0899-6. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  7. [7]
    "MISS PYNE ENGAGED TO COL. O.D. FILLEY Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy R. Pyne to Wed U.S.A. Aviator Awarded Cross by British" (PDF). The New York Times. December 2, 1917. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  8. [8]
    "OLIVER FILLEY, 78, A RETIRED BROKER; Aide at Post & Fiagg From 1921 to 1942 Dies—Was Pilot in World War I" (PDF). The New York Times. January 19, 1961. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  9. [9]
    Foreman, John (February 18, 2015). "A Park Avenue Story". BIG OLD HOUSES. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  10. [10]
    "PERCY R. PYNE JR., 46, FLIER IN WORLD WAR; Won D. S. C. in France in 1918 uLate Father Railroad Official" (PDF). The New York Times. December 10, 1941. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  11. [11]
    Pyne, Moses Taylor (1915). Descendants of Galcerán de Pinós in Spain, France, England and America. T. A. Wright. p. 43. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
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