Moses Taylor was a 19th century New York merchant and banker and one of the wealthiest men of that century. At his death, his estate was reported to be worth $70 million, or about $ billion in today's dollars. He controlled the National City Bank of New York (later to become Citibank

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), the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western

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 railroad, the Moses Taylor & Co. import business, and he held numerous other investments in railroads and industry.
His parents were Jacob B.