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M. Taylor Pyne Dies, Princeton Mourns. Banker and Lawyer Had Been University's Benefactor and Trustee for 36 Years. Director In Corporations. A Lifelong Leader in the Beneficent Development of Princeton, Says President Hibben. Moses Taylor Pyne, lawyer and financier, who for many years had been a Trustee and benefactor of Princeton University, died early yesterday morning at his residence, 263 Madison Avenue. ...

M. Taylor Pyne Dies, Princeton Mourns. Banker and Lawyer Had Been University's Benefactor and Trustee for 36 Years. Director In Corporations. A Lifelong Leader in the Beneficent Development of Princeton, Says President Hibben. Moses Taylor Pyne, lawyer and financier, who for many years had been a Trustee and benefactor of Princeton University, died early yesterday morn-ing at his residence, '263 Madison Avenue. For several flays he had been critically III • with bronchial pneumonia that developed after three months of poor health, following a general break-down. He was born in this city, Dec: 21, 1855, a son of Percy Rivington and Albertina Shelton Taylor Pyne. He was graduated from Princeton in 1877 and from the Columbia Law School in 1879, Princeton giving him the degree of A. M. the following year. For the ensuing twelve years he was general solicitor for the Delaware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad, when he retired from practice, though retaining his connection with the railroad as a member of the Boad of Manager's. Froth that time until his death Mr. Pyne...devoted.. himself to directing the affairs of several large estates, and was always much sought after for important trusteeship's. Yet his large financial interests did not prevent his giving a generous share' of his time, money or labor to Princeton, of which he was a Trustee. for thirty-sip years, never missing a meeting of the board until last Monday. .It was at that meeting that his associates named the new college dormitory Moses Taylor Pyne Hall. So much did Mr. Pyne do for his alma mater and so quietly were his benefactions performed that it would be impossible to estimate farith any accuracy the total amount of money-he gave to a wide variety of university interests. Many an unadvertised need, of an individual or a project, was met by him with the knowledge only of those immediately connected with the case. It is known, however, that for several years lie drew his own check to cover the *deficit in the university budget, that he was one of the chief contributors to the library building. and that he paid for two of the Nassau Street dormitories, afterward turning over their annual in-comes to the university. In the drive for an endowment fund last year he was Chairman of the committee in charge. In June, 1910. at a reunion in Prince-ton, the alumni gave Mr. Pyne a .gold aSC. Woodrow Wilson, '79, then President of the university, in making the presentation address said in part: " It is a tribute of honor, of sincere admiration, and of deep personal affection. May it always serve to remind you of that best thing a man may earn this side of the grave—the homage• of his fellows, of his comrades and equals for his devotion and service." The list of corporations in which-111r. Pyne 'was a director is a long one, including the National City Bank, Prudential Insurance Company and the Pa milers' Loan and Trust Company:• Among his clubs were the Union, Cen-tury. Grolier, University, Metropolitan, India House, Tuxedo, Nassau and Ivy at Princeton. His country place at Princeton, Druznthwacket, was always open to the undergraduates, its shady walks being considered as almost a part of the.eampus. He is 'survived by his wife. who was M MargarettaStockton, and two sons, Percy 'rt.: Pyne 2d and Moses Taylor Fyne Jr.

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