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EDWARD NEUFVILLE TAILER, merchant, born in the city of New York, July
20, 1830, is a grandson of Sir William Taller, for seventeen years lieutenant governor
of the colony of Massachusetts before the War of the Revolution. He is a son of
Edward N. Taller, born at the family home on lower Broadway in 1796, and of Ann
Amelia Bogert, his wife. The ancestors of the latter came from Harlem in Holland,
settled in Harlem on the upper part of the Island of Manhattan, and had large poses-
sions in land in that vicinity in the i8th century. Mr. Tailer's father, a member of
the firm of Taller & White, brokers in Wall street, retired with a fortune in 1837.

The subject of this biography was educated at Penquest's famous French school in
Bank street in this city, which was resorted to not only by the children of New Yorkers.
but by the sons of prominent families from Cuba and South America.

He began his mercantile career, Dec. 8, 1848, as a clerk with the well known firm,
of Little, Alden & Co. at No. 29 Broad street. This region was then the center of
the wholesale dry goods trade of New York and was occupied by the stores of many
merchants, famous in their day and active factors in establishing the commercial
supremacy of this metropolis. During his early business career, Mr. Taller was con¬
nected as buyer and salesman with the firms of W. & S. Phipps & Co., of Boston and.
New York, Fanshaw, Milliken & Townsend, Reimer & Meche, and Sturges, Shaw &
Co., and the experience gained in those concerns enabled him in due time to found the
successful importing and commission house of Winzer & Taller, now known as E. N. &
W. H. Taller & Co. During his business career of thirtj^-six years, he has witnessed great
changes upon the lower part of this island, not the least notable of them being the.
removal of the wholesale dry goods trade from Broad, Pine, Cedar and Pearl streets.
Exchange place and lower Broadway, to its present location, extending from Duane to
Spring streets.

After a business life of great activity, Mr. Taller retired from practical affairs,
Jan. I, 1892, not, however, worn out in the service, but to give the benefit of his busi¬
ness experience to the management of some important trusts and large estates, of
which he is the executor.

His first business voyage to Europe was made in the steamer Arago of the Fox
& Livingston Line in 1857; his last one with Captain McMicken in the Umbria. He
has crossed the Atlantic Ocean more than forty times.

In December, 1855, Mr. Taller married Miss Agnes Suffern, daughter of Thomas
Suffern, who lived for over fifty years at No. 11 Washington Square. Mr. Taller is
the father of Mrs. Henry L. Burnett, Mrs. Robert R. Livingston, Miss Fannie B.
Taller and Mr. T. Suffern Taller. He has never held political office, but is a director
in The German-American Bank and The Northern Dispensary and a member of the
vestry of Ascension Church. His social standing is shown by his membership in the
Union, Union League, Tuxedo, Country, Westchester Polo, and Merchants' clubs and
The New England and St. Nicholas Societies. In 1874, he joined the Patriarchs,
succeeding the late James A. Hamilton, who was one of the founders of that
organization.