Alfred J. Taylor

Alfred J. Taylor was born in 1833 in Massachusetts, of an old Puritan family, graduated from Yale in 1859 and from the Albany Law School in 1862, when he came to this city. His success was unusually prompt, and he early acquired a satisfactory practice, especially in corporations, financial and banking, of a number of which he was a director. During the latter part of his professional life he was able to confine himself chiefly to “the functions of counsel. He was elected to The Century in 1868, was one of the founders of the University Club, a member of the Grolier, the Historical Society, the American Geographical Society, and a manager of the House of Refuge, in which he took a warm and active interest—associations which happily indicate the range of his personal tastes and qualities, which won for him a large circle of friends

Edward Cary
1902 Century Association Yearbook