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Percy Rivington Pine. Percy Rivington Pyne, who died of heart failure at Rome, Italy, on Thursday, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, was the youngest son of Thomas and Anna Rivington Pyne. He was born in England on March 8, 1820, and was educated at Christ's Hospital in London. He came to America in 1835, and at once entered the office of the late Moses Taylor as clerk. He became a partner of the firm of Moses Taylor & Co. in 1842, and remained a member until he retired from active business in 1887. Mr. Pyne was connected with many of the principal financial institutions of this city, as well as many of the great railroads and other corporations of the country. He succeeded Mr. Taylor as President of the National City Bank, and was Vice President of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad Company. Among the many companies of which Mr. Pyne was a Director are the Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, the Central Trust Company, the Consolidated Gas Company, the Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company, the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company, the New-Jersey Zinc and Iron Company, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company, the Western Union Telegraph Company, and the Harvey Steel Company. Pyne also took an active interest in many charitable and educational works. He was Vice President at St. Luke's Hospital, trustee of the Young Men's Christian Association of New-York City. Trustee of the American Museum of Natural History, and Trustee of the Bellevue Medical School. Owing to failing health he had passed the Winters since 1891 either in California or abroad. Mr. Pyne married, in 1885, the eldest daughter of his partner, the late Moses Taylor. His widow and three children, M. Taylor Pyne, Percy R. Pyne Jr., and Mrs. Archibald D. Russell, survive him.

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