E. N. Tailer
Born Edward Neufville Tailer
(1830-07-20 ) July 20, 1830Died February 15, 1917(1917-02-15) (aged 86)New York City, New York, U.S.
Spouse
Agnes Suffern
(before )
Parent(s) Edward Neufville Tailer Relatives Earl E. T. Smith (grandson)Robert Reginald Livingston (grandson)
Edward Neufville Tailer (July 20, 1830 – February 15, 1917)[ 1] Gilded Age .[ 2]
Early life
Tailer was born on July 20, 1830, in the Greenwich Village section of New York City . He was the son of New York merchant[ 3] née Bogert) Tailer (1802–1883).[ 4] [ 3] [ 5] [ 6]
His grandfather was Edward Neufville Tailer, Sr. and they were all descendants of Sir William Tailer , a colonial governor of Massachusetts .[ 5]
Tailer was educated at the well known "Penquest's French school" located on Bank street.[ 6]
Career
In December 1848, he began his career with the firm of Little, Alden & Co.[ 7] [ 1] [ 6]
He eventually founded the successful importing and commission house of Winzer & Tailer (later known as E.N. & W.H. Tailer & Co.).[ 6] [ 8] Atlantic Ocean more than forty times.[ 6]
He was also a director of several banks,[ 9] [ 1]
Beginning in 1848, when he was just 18 years old,[ 4] [ 2] [ 10] [ 1] [ 11]
Society life
Tailer was a member of the controversial "Four Hundred " of New York Society,[ 12] Mrs. Astor and Ward McAllister and published in The New York Times [ 13] [ 14] [ 15] Patriarchs , a group of the city's elite men that was established by McAllister. He succeeded James Alexander Hamilton .[ 6]
He was a member of the vestry of Ascension Church. He was a member of the Union Club of the City of New York , the Union League Club , the Tuxedo Club , the Country Club, Westchester Polo Club , and Merchants' Clubs and The New England Society and St. Nicholas Society .[ 6] [ 16]
Personal life
Tailer was married to Agnes Suffern (1830–1917),[ 17] [ 9] [ 12] Washington Square North built in 1834 by her father,[ 10] [ 4] [ 18]
Agnes Suffern Tailer (1858–1932),[ 19] Henry Lawrence Burnett (1838–1916) in 1882 at the Church of the Ascension .[ 20] Mary Tailer (1863–1944),[ 21] [ 22] Robert Reginald Livingston (1858–1899) of Northwood,[ 23] Goodhue Livingston and grandson of Lt. Governor Edward Philip Livingston , in 1884.[ 24]
Thomas Suffern Tailer (1866–1928),[ 25] Maude Louise Lorillard (1876–1922),[ 26] Pierre Lorillard IV ,[ 27] [ 28] [ 29] [ 30] C. Ledyard Blair .[ 31]
Laura Suffern Tailer (1869–1887), who died young.
Frances Bogert "Fannie" Tailer (1884–1953),[ 32] [ 12] [ 9] [ 33] [ 34] Tailer died in New York City on February 15, 1917.[ 1] Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York .[ 10] [ 17]
Descendants
Through his daughter Mary, he was a grandfather of Assemblyman Robert Reginald Livingston Jr. [ 22] Earl Edward Tailer Smith (1903–1991), a diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Cuba as well as the mayor of Palm Beach, Florida .[ 34]
References
^ a b c d e "Edward N. Tailer Dead – Retired Merchant Was Member of an Old New York Family" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ a b "Tailer, Edward Neufville" . newyorkdiaries.com . New York Diaries (1609-2009). Retrieved November 3, 2017 .^ a b Yale University Class of 1896 (1907). Decennial Record of the Class of 1896, Yale College 599 . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link )^ a b c Henkin, David M. (1998). City Reading: Written Words and Public Spaces in Antebellum New York Columbia University Press . p. 130. ISBN 9780231107440 . Retrieved November 3, 2017 . ^ a b Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York (1902). Genealogical Record of the Saint Nicholas Society: Advanced Sheets, First Series 61 . Retrieved November 3, 2017 . ^ a b c d e f g Hall, Henry (1895). America's Successful Men of Affairs: The city of New York New York Tribune . p. 639 . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . ^ Luskey, Brian P. (2011). On the Make: Clerks and the Quest for Capital in Nineteenth-Century America NYU Press . p. 37. ISBN 9780814753101 . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . ^ O'Reilly, Edward (September 22, 2015). " . New-York Historical Society . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . ^ a b c Folpe, Emily Kies (2002). It Happened on Washington Square JHU Press . p. 142. ISBN 9780801870880 . Retrieved November 3, 2017 . ^ a b c "An Old New Yorker" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "Art Works to Mrs. Tailer – Retired Merchant's Son Gets His 48 Volume Scrapbook" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ a b c Patterson, Jerry E. (2000). The First Four Hundred: Mrs. Astor's New York in the Gilded Age Random House . p. 229. ISBN 9780847822089 . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . ^ McAllister, Ward (February 16, 1892). "The Only Four Hundred – Ward M'Allister Gives Out the Official List – Here Are the Names, Don't You Know, On the Authority of Their Great Leader, You Understand, and Therefore Genuine, You See" (PDF) . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 . ^ King, Moses (1899). Notable New Yorkers of 1869-1899: A Companion Volume to King's Handbook of New York City . Retrieved September 19, 2017 . ^ Keister, Lisa A. (2005). Getting Rich: America's New Rich and How They Got That Way Cambridge University Press . p. 36. ISBN 9780521536677 . Retrieved October 20, 2017 . ^ Reynolds, Cuyler (1914). Genealogical and Family History of Southern New York and the Hudson River Valley: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation 1333 . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . ^ a b "Mrs. A. S. Tailer Dead – Social Leader Expires in the House She Spent Her Life" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "Mrs. Agnes S. Tailer's Will – Estate Divided Among Her Daughters and Brother" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "Mrs. H. L. Burnett" The New York Times . Retrieved November 3, 2017 .^ "Miscellaneous City News – A Brilliant Wedding – Marriage of Gen. Herry L. Burnett to Miss Agents S. Tailer" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "Mrs. Livingston Hostess – Gives a Dance for Her Son, R. R. Livingston, and Fiancee, Miss Dean" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ a b "Mrs. Livingston, 82, Nursery Advocate – Member of Noted Family Dies – Ex-Delegate Had Served on Democratic State Group" The New York Times . Retrieved June 6, 2017 .^ Dutchess County Historical Society (1928). Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . ^ Burke, Arthur Meredyth (1908). The Prominent Families of the United States of America ISBN 9780806313085 . Retrieved May 19, 2018 . ^ "T. Suffern Tailer Buried – Many Residents of Newport Attend the Funeral Services" The New York Times . Retrieved May 19, 2018 .^ "Mrs. M. L. Baring Dies in London" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "How Mr. Lorillard Divided His Estate – Bequest of Rancocas to a Woman Arouses His Family – Clubmen Talk of a Contest – Tuxedo Property Guarded by Strict Provisions – The Widow's Annuity – The Will Disposes of $4,000,000" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "Wedded Before Many Friends; Miss Maud Lorillard Becomes Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer. Dr. Satterlee Performs a Simple Ceremony in Calvary Church—Wedding Breakfast at the Lorillard Residence—Showered with Rice as They left the House—One Hundred Thousand Dollars' Worth of Presents—To Spend a Few Months at the World's Fair and Then to go Abroad" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "Separation Reported of Suffern Tailers – Wife Probably Will Ask Divorce, His Secretary Says in Washington" The New York Times . Retrieved February 28, 2017 .^ "Mrs. T. Suffern Tailer Obtains Her Divorce – Wife of Clubman and Whip Granted a Decree in North Dakota – She Went to the Western State for the Purpose, Charging Desertion – History of Their Troubles" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ "C. Ledyard Blair, Banker, 82, Dead" .The New York Times ^ "Mrs. Taller Carpenter" The New York Times . Retrieved May 19, 2018 .^ "Mrs. F. T. Smith a Bride – Weds C. W. Carpenter, Jr., at Home of Her Brother, T. Suffern Taller" . The New York Times . Retrieved December 5, 2021 – via Newspapers.com.^ a b "Mrs. F. Tailer Carpenter Estate Split Between Sons" . Newport Daily News . Retrieved May 19, 2018 .
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