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

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, and a director of the

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Early life

Percy Rivington Payne was born in England on March 8, 1820, to Anna Rivington and Thomas Pyne. He was a

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, famed Loyalist publisher in New York during the

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. Pyne was educated at

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boarding school in

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before emigrating to the United States in 1835.

Career

Upon arriving in the United States, Pyne joined his father-in-law's business

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& Co. as a clerk, becoming a partner in 1842. 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

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Personal life

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

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(1855–1921) who was a major philanthropist at

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and who married Margaretta Stockton, granddaughter of General

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. *

Percy Rivington Pyne II Percy Rivington Pyne II (May 5, 1857 – August 22, 1929) was a banker, financier, and philanthropist. Early life Pyne was born on May 5, 1857 in New York City, the son of Percy Rivington Pyne I (1820-1895) and Albertina Shelton (née Tayl ...

(1857–1929), who married Maud Howland, daughter of New York merchant Gardiner Greene Howland.Reynolds, Cuyler
''Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley''
Vol. 3 (1914), pp. 1413–14. * Albertina Taylor Pyne (1859–1918), who married Archibald D. Russell. Pyne died in Rome, Italy on

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, February 14, 1895.

Descendants

Through his son Percy, he was a grandfather of Grafton Howland Pyne (1890–1935); Herbert Rivington Pyne (1892–1952), who married Florence Ledyard Blair (daughter of banker

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); Mary Percy Pyne (b. 1893), who married Oliver Dwight Filley (a grandson of Oliver Filley and cousin of

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); Percy Rivington Pyne Jr. (1896–1941), a flier with the

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during

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; and Meredith Howland Pyne (b. 1898).

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pyne, Percy 1820 births 1895 deaths Citigroup people People educated at Christ's Hospital Pyne family (banking) Rivington family British emigrants to the United States American bankers