Percy Rivington Pyne II
Percy Rivington Pyne II | |
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| File:Percy Rivington Pyne II (May 5, 1857 – August 22, 1929) in 1921.png Pyne in 1921 | |
| Born | May 5, 1857 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | August 22, 1929 (aged 72) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Spouse |
Maud Howland (m. 1889) |
| Children | 5, including Percy Jr. |
| Parent(s) | Percy Rivington Pyne I Albertina Shelton Taylor |
| Relatives | Moses Taylor Pyne (brother) Moses Taylor (grandfather) Percy Pyne 2nd (nephew) |
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Percy Rivington Pyne II (May 5, 1857 – August 22, 1929) was a banker, financier, and philanthropist.[1]
Early life
[edit | edit source]Pyne was born on May 5, 1857 in New York City, the son of Percy Rivington Pyne I (1820-1895) and Albertina Shelton (née Taylor) Pyne (1833–1900). His maternal grandfather was Moses Taylor, founder of the First National City Bank of New York and a stockholder in the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad. His older brother, Moses Taylor Pyne, inherited much of the family fortune and was a major benefactor of Princeton University.[1]
Pyne received a B.A. degree from Princeton in 1878 and an M.A. degree in 1881.[1]
Career
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He began his business career under the tutelage of his maternal grandfather, Moses Taylor, serving as a partner in the firm of Moses Taylor & Co. He would follow in his grandfather's footsteps, becoming director of the National City Bank as well as manager of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad.[1][2]
From 1903 to 1922, Pyne also served as treasurer of the New York Zoological Society.[1]
Residences
[edit | edit source]In New York City, Pyne and his family lived at 680 Park Avenue at the corner of East 68th Street, now home to the Americas Society.[3] In 1899, he built the mansion Upton Pyne in Bernardsville, New Jersey, as a summer home.[4] It was named after Upton Pyne in Devon, England, his family's ancestral manor. It was the largest mansion in the area until it was torn down by his daughter in 1982.[5]
Personal life
[edit | edit source]On June 20, 1889, he married Maud Howland (1866–1952), daughter of New York merchant Gardiner Greene Howland.[2] Maud's brother Dulany Howland married Marguerite McClure, who later remarried Ogden Haggerty Hammond, the father of Millicent Fenwick.[6] Together, Percy and Maud Pyne had five children:[2]
- Grafton Howland Pyne (1890–1935),[7] who married Leta Constance Wright (1892–1957), a daughter of Eben Wright.[2]
- Herbert Rivington Pyne (1892–1952),[8] who married Florence Ledyard Blair (1893–1982), daughter of banker C. Ledyard Blair.[9]
- Mary Percy Pyne (b. November 27, 1893, d. May 10, 1994), who married Oliver Dwight Filley (1883–1961),[10][11] a grandson of Oliver Filley and cousin of Dwight F. Davis.[12] In 1963 she married Charles Suydam Cutting (1889-1972).[13]
- Percy Rivington Pyne Jr. (1896–1941), a flier with the 103d Aero Squadron during World War I.[14]
- Meredith Howland Pyne (b. October 5, 1898, d. November 25, 1927), who did not marry.[15]
Pyne died at his Bernardsville, New Jersey, home on August 22, 1929, at the age of 72.[1]
References
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- ^ a b c d Reynolds, Cuyler. Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley, Vol. 3 (1914), pp. 1413-14.
- ^ Americas Society, New York Architecture Images.
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- ^ Schleicher, William A. and Susan Winter. In the Somerset Hills: The Landed Gentry. Arcadia, 1997, p. 43.
- ^ Shapiro, Amy. Millicent Fenwick: Her Way (2003), p. 30.
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External links
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