the soundest financial principles and enjoying the very fullest confidence of the public, the institution was at once placed upon a course of assured prosperity. He was also a director of the Citizens' Trust Company and was a member of the executive committee of the New York State Waterways Association. He was one of the New York commissioners authorized to negotiate with the engineers of the U. S. Army to locate the route of the proposed waterway along the south shore of Long Island to connect Peconic and Jamaica Bays. The State authorized an appropriation of $995,000.00 to provide a right-of-way therefor. Mr. Bailey did much to promote that worthy project. He was a member of many clubs which included the Crescent Athletic Club of Brooklyn and the Belleport Yacht Club; the South Side Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons; Suwasset Chapter, R. A. M.; Patchogue Commandery, Knights Templar and Kismet Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. Mr. Bailey spoke French, Spanish and German fluently, which assisted him very materially in studying European methods during his frequent visits abroad. He also traveled extensively in South America. Mr. Bailey was the owner of the sailing yachts "Doris" and "Iris" and a speed motorboat, and was also a great lover of horses. Mr. Bailey married, November 21st, 1883, Lillie Belle, daughter of George Washington and Georgianna Rogers Robinson, of East Patchogue, New York, a descendant of the Reverend John Robinson, pastor of the "Pilgrims," and Thomas Rogers, who came over on the "Mayflower." Mr. and Mrs. Bailey had four children, Anna Gertrude and Ella Katharine Bailey, who survive, and Joseph Edwin and Richard Joseph Bailey, deceased. Mr. Bailey died January 30th, 1920. He was a man of great intellectual power. His well-molded and equipped mind, with its sagacity, far-sightedness and sound judgment was the foundation upon which he built his career; but he produced results, because he used those mental powers with indefatigable industry, and because he possessed in large degree those other qualities which are the necessary concomitant of all greater success, aggressiveness, indomitable courage, abundant common sense, and a stable character. He had a talent for affairs-in all things he was essentially practical. He had a keen judgment of men and unusual skill in handling them for the accomplishment of large endeavors. He was a man, too, of great imagination, and while he possessed to a marked degree the characteristics essential to the making of the broad, successful man he was, his democracy was his outstanding trait. Affable and genial in conversation, frank and abiding as a friend, thorough in research and reading, tireless as a worker for the welfare of others, his straightforward and sympathetic manner made him the best of companions to young or old, learned or unlearned, humble citizen or statesman. He represented the finest type of Nature's gentleman. Henry Augustus Coit Taylor ENRY AUGUSTUS COIT TAYLOR was born in New York City, January 19th, 1841; son of Moses Taylor and Catherine Ann Wilson. He was one of the distinguished members of a family that has been prominent in the social and business life of New York for nearly two centuries. The first of the family in America, Moses Taylor, became a citizen of New York in 1738, and shortly after his arrival from England leased from Bernardus Smith the premises at the corner of Pearl Street and Maiden Lane, facing the old Fly Market, which extended from Pearl Street along Maiden Lane to the East River. In 1750 he removed to a house fronting the Old Slip Market, and known by the sign of The Cat and Kettle; this was but temporary, and at the close of 1751 he returned to Maiden Lane. He was one of the leading merchants of his day. He was enrolled, February 8th, 1738, as a private soldier in Captain Cornelius Van Horne's Company of Militia; was admitted to the freedom of the city of New York "by payment" September 13th, 1738, and was constable of the "Dock Ward" in 1760. His son, Moses Taylor, was born in New York City, December 28th, 1739, and married Elizabeth, daughter of Abraham and Elizabeth Bloom Alstyne. He was admitted to the freedom of the city, October 1st, 1765, “by registry," and served in the American Army during the Revolution from 1777 to 1784, in the Orange County Militia. During the occupation of New York City by the British, 1776-1783, Mr. Taylor removed with his family to Tappan, New York, but returned after evacuation. |