New-York tribune., 1921-04-23
M. Taylor Pyne,
Leader in Big
Projects, Dead
Lawyer and Financier, IS
Years Old, Is Victim of
Bronchial Pneumonia at
His Madison Ave. Home
Gave Much to Princeton
Devoted Money and Time to
Alma Mater for Third of
Century; Leaves Two Sons

Moses Taylor Pync, lawyer and
iirancier, who was stricken with
bronchial pneumonia Monday almost
at the hour that his fellow trustees
OF Princeton University were bestow-
ing the name Moses Taylor Pyne Hall
upon one of the largest Of the new
dormitorics, died yesterday at his
home, 1853 Madison Avenue.
1t was the first meeting of the
trustees of Princeton University which
Mr.. Payne had missed for more than a
third of a century. For several weeks
his health had been impaired by over
work, and it was recognized immedi-
ately that his illness was extremely
serious.
A lifelong resident Of New York, Mr..
Pyne was In the third generation of
his family in this city. His grand
father, Thomas Pyne, member Of an
English county family which had
lived in Devonshire ever since the
Norman Conquest, came here in 1928,
and became the father of Percy Riving-
ton Pyne, who married Miss Albertina
Taylor. To this couple Moses Taylor
Pyne was born on December 81, 1855.
He was educated at Princeton, where
he received his A. B. in 1877 and A. M.
in 1880. On June 2, 1880, he was
married to Miss Margaretta Stockton,
a daughter Of Major General Robert
4. Stockton. Meantime he had spent
two years at the Columbia University
Law School and had been graduated
with the degree Of LII. B. in 1879.
Begins Practice OF Law
Immediately upon admission to the
bar Mr.. Pyne began the general prac-
tice of his profession. He was soon
engaged as general solicitor of the
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail-
road, and filled that place from 1880
to 1892, after which he became a men,
ber of the board of managers Of that
corporation. A few years after his re-
tirement from that solicitorship he
withdrew from general practice and
gave his chief attention thereafter TO
the management of large estates.
Mr.. Pyne also became actively inter
es.ed in numerous railroad, financial
institutions ard other enterprises, his
directorships, including the Cayuga u
Susquehanna Railroad, the Warren
Railroad and the Princeton Inn Com
pany, of which three companies he was
also president; the Morris & Essex
Railroad, the Newark & Bloomfield
Railroad, the Passaic s. Delaware
Railroad, the Sussex Railroad, the
United New Jersey Railroad & Canal
Companies, the Utica, Chenango &
Susquehanna Valley Railroad. the VAL
ley Railroad, the Franklin Trust Com
rany, the Commercial Trust Company
of New Jersey, the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, the Harvey Steel Com
thu Lackawanna Coal and Iron Com
ton Publishing Company and the New
Jersey Zince Company.
More than third of century ago
Mr.. Pyne was elected trustee Of
Princeton University, and thereafter
until the end of his life large part Of
his time, attention, strength and means
we're given to promoting the welfare
Of his alma mater. In the dark years
Of its financial deficits his purse was
often widely opened in its behalf, and
waen, year before last, the great drive
for more than fourteen millions was
started, he presided at the organization
meeting. He built two dormitories and
turned over their income to the uni
7ersity funds.
Sponsored University Library
It was through his efforts that the
library was built, and it was
rom him and his mother that large
,art of the funds for it came. He also
vas deeply and usefully concerned in
L. 4 80.