Research Catalog

Title

Moses Taylor papers, 1793-1906, bulk (1835-1890).

Author

Taylor, Moses, 1806-1882.

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Additional Authors

• Coit, Henry Augustus.
• Heckscher, Charles.
• Pyne, Percy Rivington.
• Shelton, Philo.
• Taylor, Henry Augustus Coit.
• Taylor, Jacob Bloom.
• Taylor, Moses, 1806-1882.
• Turnure, Lawrence.

Description

132 linear feet (326 boxes, 1166 v., 1 oversize folder).

Summary

Bulk of the papers reflects Taylor's business career over five decades and is composed of correspondence and records, 1834-1889, of the trading house of Moses Taylor and the reorganized trading and investments firm of Moses Taylor & Company; personal papers, 1837-1880; papers of Taylor's estate, 1881-1900; papers, 1852-1882, relating to the estate of Taylor's father, Jacob Bloom Taylor; letters and papers, 1860s and 1870s, of Taylor's son, Henry A.C. Taylor, and other members of his family; correspondence and papers, 1830-1893, of Taylor's business partners, Percy Pyne (who was also his lieutenant and son-in-law) and Lawrence Turnure, and his closest associates in trade and industry, Henry Augustus Coit, Charles Heckscher and Philo Shelton; correspondence and records, 1830-1899, of the many industrial companies and public utilities in which Taylor and/or his family and estate had a financial interest; letters and papers, 1863-1888, relating to the Ten Years War of 1868-1878 in Cuba, during which Taylor's firm acted as agents for the independence movement; and records, 1793-1906, of other merchants.

Subjects

• Chestnut Hill Iron Ore Company
• Harvey Screw and Bolt Company
• Americans > Foreign countries
• Cuba > History > Insurrection, 1868-1878
• Capitalists and financiers
• Union Iron and Coal Company
• Investments > Cuba
• Moses Taylor and Company
• New York (State) > History
• Foreign trade and employment
• International trade
• Entrepreneurship
• Bankers
• Cuba > Commerce > United States
• Railroads > Pennsylvania
• Coal mines and mining > United States
• Slavery > Cuba
• City Bank (New York, N.Y.)
• Mines and mineral resources > United States
• Cayuga and Susquehanna Railroad Company
• Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company (Scranton, Pa.)
• Railroads > United States
• Labor
• Business
• Sugar
• United States > Commerce > Cuba
• Industrial organization
• New Jersey Zinc and Iron Company
• Industrial relations > United States
• Jersey Shore Improvement Company
• Penn Mining and Smelting Company
• St. Louis and Hannibal Railroad Company

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Additional Formats (note)

• available on microfilm;

Source (note)

• Pyne, Percy, Jr.; James Milgram

Biography (note)

• Moses Taylor (1806-1882) was a little-known but representative figure in the history of the mercantile and industrial development of the United States and Cuba in the nineteenth century.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

MssCol 2955

OCLC

NYPW90-A109

Author

Taylor, Moses, 1806-1882.

Title

Moses Taylor papers, 1793-1906, bulk (1835-1890).

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Additional Formats

Mercantile Weekly Report and Havana Prices Current, 1857-1858 available on microfilm; New York Public Library.

Box 305, folders 1-19 and vols. 808-812 available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-202

Biography

Moses Taylor (1806-1882) was a little-known but representative figure in the history of the mercantile and industrial development of the United States and Cuba in the nineteenth century. Taylor was a New York City merchant in the West Indies trade (chiefly Cuba), a long-time president of City Bank of New York, an entrepreneur and manager in the railroad and mining industries, a life-long Tammany supporter, an ambivalent War Democrat with personal and business ties to the South, and an important member of August Belmont's clique of Democratic businessmen.

Finding Aids

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Finding Aid

Occupation

Bankers.

Added Author

Coit, Henry Augustus.

Heckscher, Charles.

Pyne, Percy Rivington.

Shelton, Philo.

Taylor, Henry Augustus Coit.

Taylor, Jacob Bloom.

Taylor, Moses, 1806-1882.

Turnure, Lawrence.

Research Call Number

MssCol 2955