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3 unusual facts about Moses Taylor


Moses Taylor

Moses died in 1882 and although he owned a vault at the New York City Marble Cemetery which already contained members of his family, he was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.

Percy Rivington Pyne (1820–1895), an assistant to Moses, had married Moses' daughter Albertina in 1855 and became president of City Bank upon his father-in-law's death.

St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad

Beginning in its early construction, it was largely financed and (later) owned by John Insley Blair, Blairstown, New Jersey (1802–1899), and Moses Taylor, New York banker (1806–1882).


Cyrus West Field

Together with Peter Cooper, Abram Stevens Hewitt, Moses Taylor and Samuel F.B. Morse, in 1854 he laid a 400-mile telegraph line connecting St. John's, Newfoundland with Nova Scotia, where telegraph lines from the U.S. terminated.


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